We’ve all heard a saying or quote that just don’t seem attributed to the right person.  But if you see on the internet, in church bulletins, on holy cards, or quoted from the pulpit then it must be right doesn’t it?

One such “quote” is attributed everywhere to St. Teresa of Avila and usually starts with “Christ Has No Body….”.  One common variation is:

“Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours,
Yours are the eyes through which to look out
Christ’s compassion to the world
Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good;
Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now.”

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We’d like to share some recent unsolicited feedback we’ve received about using the Carmelite Digital Library.  The first is a posting made by Dr. Nancy Thompson to the CinCarm mailing list:

I don’t know how many of you have tried the Carmelite Digital Library CD as a resource in your preparation for a talk or in your work as a formator but I find it worth its weight in gold.  It has all of Teresa and John+ collected works and letters.  Both the Kavanaugh/Rodriguez and Peers works are on the CD for comparison, as well as the Spanish text.  I especially like having the Douay Rheims Bible version on the CD so I can look up what Teresa and John+ would have read when they quote Scripture.

Thought I would share my experience with it, in case you have heard about it but wondered if it was worth the purchase.  I heard someone mention it on Cincarm when they were talking about something else, and immediately tracked it down to order.  I had the original John of the Cross edition and used it a lot.  Thanks to all who had anything to do with these helpful digital devices!  What a service to Carmel.

Blessings,
Nancy Thompson, ocds

The second was part of a conversion with Fr. Kevin Culligan OCD at the recent 2012 OCDS Congress:

“Thank you for this product … I used it every day … I don’t know how I lived these last forty years without it … ”