Contemplative Haven: St. Teresa's Love Wound 
St. Teresa's Love Wound
Before we move along to lucutions, I would like to share with you St. Teresa's own experience of receiving a love wound. She describes an encounter with an angel in Chapter 29 of her autobiography:
"I saw in his hands a large golden dart and at the end of the iron tip there appeared to be a little fire. It seemed to me this angel plunged the dart several times into my heart and that it reached deep within me. When he drew it out, I thought he was carrying off with him the deepest part of me; and he left me all on fire with great love of God. The pain was so great that it made me moan, and the sweetness this greatest pain caused me was so superabundant that there is no desire capable of taking it away."
This event is celebrated on August 26th, and is known as the Feast of the Transverberation of St. Teresa of Jesus. This type of occurrence is also known as transfixion.
Here is a lovely little poem, entitled, "Dilectus Meus Mihi", or, "My Beloved is Mine", written by St. Teresa herself. This translation is by Alvin Joaquin Figueroa, who tells us that St. Teresa, "uses the Song of Songs as a literary intertext" in her poem.
When the sweet Hunter shot and wounded me
My soul rested upon Love's arms.
And regaining a new life
I have changed in such a way,
That I am my Beloved's
And my Beloved is mine.
I have surrendered to Him
And to such a great extent
That I am my Beloved's
And my Beloved is mine.
He wounded me with a love arrow
And my soul became one with her Creator.
I do not want any other love,
For to my God I have surrendered.
I am my Beloved's
And my Beloved is mine.
posted by Gabrielle at 12:35 AM
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