On 15 October the Church commemorates Teresa of Ávila, the sixteenth-century Spanish Carmelite who was named a Doctor of the Church in 1970 and thus became the first woman to receive that title, along with Catherine of Siena.
In a world that moves quickly and grows noisier each day, there is a small monastery along Gilmore Avenue that has spent the last 99 years doing something radically different: praying in silence for the world.
