You are the hands and eyes and heart of Christ. We have only recently completed the jubilee year for the 500th anniversary of the birth of St. Teresa of Avila, whom Pope Francis celebrated as “a woman of immense spirituality,” encouraging us to reflect on her words.
St. Teresa told us God makes us equal to the task of being the proof of Christ for an unbelieving world when she wrote, “May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.” And we must not forget the words for which she is perhaps best known: “Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body.” (Prayers to Saint Therese, “Prayer of Saint Teresa of Avila (1515–1582),” CatholiCity.)
