Christ Has No Body By Teresa of Avila - Poem for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year A

The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year A can be found here)

This poem was selected to accompany one of the
lectionary readings for the coming week, Romans 8:1-11 

Christ Has No Body
Teresa of Avila

Christ has no body but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
Compassion on this world,
Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good,
Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.
Yours are the hands, yours are the feet,
Yours are the eyes, you are his body.
Christ has no body now but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
compassion on this world.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

*** This poem is in the public domain,
  and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.

Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) was a Carmelite nun and prominent Spanish mystic and religious reformer. Active during the Counter-Reformation, Teresa became the central figure of a movement of spiritual and monastic renewal, reforming the Carmelite Orders of both women and men. (via Wikipedia)