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🌎 Teresa is going to the Amazon for the first time, the world’s largest rainforest, to fight for the future and to end a system that exploits, oppresses, and destroys Nature, generating genocide and ecocide wherever it manages to establish itself. In the complex life of our family, one of the things that soothes our souls is knowing that, despite so much uncertainty, at least Teresa is lucky enough to grow up experiencing the real world in indigenous territories, peasant communities, and spaces

Saint Teresa of Avila- A mystic Carmelite and a woman “of God,” a woman of prayer, discipline, and compassion. St Teresa of Avila, ora pro nobis. | EWTN