So Good a Friend and Captain

With so good a Friend and Captain ever present, Himself the first to suffer, everything can be borne.

He helps, He strengthens, He never fails, He is the true Friend.

I see clearly, and since then have always seen, that if we are to please God, and if He is to give us His great graces, everything must pass through the hands of His most sacred humanity, in whom His Majesty said that He is well pleased.

I know this by repeated experience; I have seen clearly that this is the door by which we are to enter, if we would have His supreme Majesty reveal to us His great Secrets.

- St. Teresa of Avila, Life, 22:9