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Philippine Carmelites elect new leader

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Quote of the day, 14 June: Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, ocd

“Go, return on your way through the desert to Damascus. And when you arrive you shall anoint Hazel to be king over Syria; and, you shall anoint Jehu the son of Namsi to be king over Israel. And Elisha, the son of Saphat of Abelmeula, you shall anoint to be prophet in your place” (Cf. 1 Kg 19:11-18).

The Lord had commissioned [Elijah on Mount Horeb] to anoint two kings and to select Elisha, whom he had never met, as his successor in the school of the prophets. Interestingly, Elijah did not accomplish the anointing of Hazael and Jehu during his lifetime: Elisha anointed Hazael, and he sent another one of the sons of the prophets to anoint Jehu.

Elijah encountered Elisha for the first time on the return journey from Mount Horeb. Elisha was plowing a field when Elijah approached him, threw his mantle around him, and invited him to become a follower.

Elisha summoned his family and they killed the oxen and had a great feast, and when the meal was concluded the new prophet said his farewells and departed with Elijah. And thus was established that close friendship between the two men whom God had called to direct the activities of the prophets of Mount Carmel.

The Carmelite tradition makes frequent allusion to the double spirit which Elisha inherited from Elijah, interpreting it as a symbol of the prophetic vocation: the spirit of solitude and the spirit of prophetic preaching.

Elisha himself imbued his followers with this double spirit and his sons of the prophets were true disciples of Elijah. The exploits and adventures of Elisha and his sons of the prophets are related in 4 Kings [now known as 2 Kings], but it is difficult to follow the Elijahan tradition with any precision after the death of Elisha.

The Carmelites of the late Middle Ages stoutly defended the thesis that Elijah had actually founded an order and that his successors had lived on Mount Carmel in a line of unbroken succession throughout the Old Testament and New Testament eras. The Carmelite Constitutions of 1324 accordingly claim:

Therefore we state, in evidence of the truth, that since the time of the Prophets Elijah and Elisha who piously lived on Mount Carmel, holy fathers of the Ancient and New Testament, true lovers of the solitude of that mountain for the contemplation of heavenly things, have undoubtedly and worthily dwelt near the fountain of St. Elijah in holy penance, continuing a holy succession. Their successors, after the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, built a church there in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and they took Her name for title, and were consequently called by Apostolic privileges the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel.

Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, o.c.d.

Chapter I, The birth of an Order (excerpts)

Note: The tradition that Elijah and Elisha founded a prophetic community on Mount Carmel—one that continued in unbroken succession through the Old and New Testaments—is affirmed in the earliest Carmelite legislation. This tradition helps to explain the Holy See’s decision to restore the memorial of Elisha to the Discalced Carmelite calendar in 2023.

Rohrbach, P 1966, 2015, Journey to Carith: The Sources and Story of the Discalced Carmelites, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Ruins of the first Carmelite monastery in the Wadi Es-Siah on Mount Carmel overlooking the Mediterranean. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites (Used by permission).

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Quote of the day, 7 January: St. Teresa of the Andes

Mommy, there’s no need to worry, since I’m always on vacation with Jesus. Besides, from Christmas, the 25th until January 6, we had several recreation days which we might call a Carmelite’s vacation time.

Nevertheless, Mommy, nothing seems to distract a soul that’s searching for God alone. I myself am shocked when I see my indifference over what had previously filled me with enthusiasm. My only happiness now is to live for my Jesus alone. In Him I find everything my soul desires in an infinite degree.

I never tire, Mommy dear, of thanking God for having chosen me for Himself, despite my sinfulness; and may the vocation of your Carmelite always help you to love and praise Him more.

Saint Teresa of Jesus of the Andes

Letter 157 to her mother
18 January 1920

Griffin, M D & Teresa of the Andes, S 2023, The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus of the Andes, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: The Andes mountains are always a stunning view in Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. The Cuernos del Paine are one of the features that await tourists to the nation’s Southern Patagonia region. Image credit: Adobe Stock (Stock photo)

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August 7
SAINT ALBERT OF TRÁPANI
Priest

Memorial

Albert degli Abbati was born at Trápani, Sicily, in the thirteenth century, and entered the Carmelite Order as a youth. He became renowned as a fervent preacher of the Gospel and a worker of miracles. He was Provincial of Sicily in 1296, and died at Messina, probably in 1307, with a reputation for purity and prayer.

From the common of holy men

Office of Readings

HYMN

The Feasts of August sound their glad refrain,
To Albert riseth soft, melodious strain;
Carmel echo with the songs of love
Raised to our Blessed Father throned above.

At seven years the parent roof he flies,
And, like the Baptist, all the world denies,
To seek the holy Virgin’s sacred shrine,
And live a life of holiness divine.

Clad in the flowing mantle white as snow,
He welcomes choicest gifts the Heavens bestow,
With power granted him to govern here
The lesser kingdoms of this earthly sphere.

The altar flame is by a crystal glassed,
A spectre breaketh it with pebble cast;
But Albert poureth tears before the Lord,
And lo! the sacred lamp is quick restored.

His youth, so prompt to vengeance, he subdues,
No fantasies of Hell his mind confuse
Supporting calmly fortune good or ill,
He scorneth honors with a steadfast will.

Unto one God most high be endless praise,
And to the blessed Son for equal days.
The Holy Spirit let us now adore,
And praise the Three in One forevermore.

10.10.10.10.
Mensis augusti redeuent honores

THE SECOND READING
(L. 1, c. 2: ed. AnOC 3 [1914-1916], pp. 348-49)

From the Book of the Institution of the First Monks

Hide yourself by the brook Cherith

The word of the Lord came to Elijah saying: Depart from here and go eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith near the Jordan, and there you will drink from the brook. Now these salutary commands which the Holy Spirit prompted Elijah to obey, and this promise of good things which he was moved to desire, ought to be weighed word by word with the greatest care by us, monks and solitaries, and this in a mystical sense, for they contain the full meaning of our vocation. Indeed they point the way to prophetic perfection, which is the goal of our religious, eremitical life.

It will be seen that this type of life has two aims. One of them we can, with the help of God’s grace, achieve by our own efforts and the practice of virtue. This aim is to offer God a heart holy and pure from all actual stain of sin, and we achieve it when we become perfect and hidden in Cherith—that is, in charity, of which the Wise Man says: Charity covers all offenses. It was to bring Elijah to this state that God said to him: Hide yourself by the brook Cherith.

The other aim of this kind of life is something that can be bestowed on us only by God’s generosity: namely, to taste in our hearts and experience in our minds, not only after death but even during this mortal life, something of the power of the divine presence and the bliss of heavenly glory. And this is to drink from the brook of the enjoyment of God—the reward God promised Elijah when he said: There you will drink from the brook.

The prophetic, eremitical life must be undertaken by the monk with both these aims in view, as the Psalmist makes clear when he says to God: In a desert land where there is no road and no water I have come before you in the sanctuary to see your power and your glory. By choosing to live in a desert land where there is no road and no water as the means of coming before God in the sanctuary—with a heart, that is, free from sin—he demonstrates the first aim of the solitary life he has chosen, which is to offer God a heart that is holy, or pure from all actual sin. By adding the words to see your power and your glory he declares the second aim, which is in some measure to experience or see the power of the divine presence mystically in one’s heart and to taste the bliss of heavenly glory here already in this life.

The first aim, purity of heart, can be achieved with the help of God’s grace by effort and the practice of virtue. The second aim, experimental knowledge of divine power and heavenly glory, can be realized through purity of heart and perfect love; for our Lord said: Whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.

RESPONSORY

R/. I have called you friends, for I have made known to you all I have heard from my Father. * Remain in my love.
V/. I have chosen you to go out and bear fruit, fruit that shall last. * Remain in my love.

Morning Prayer

HYMN

The feast-day of Saint Albert dawns
A day of pure resplendent light;
Our brethren high in heav’n rejoice
As we our praise with theirs unite.

He realized that earthly joys
Were all too small to fill his heart;
All, all he had he gave to God,
In Carmel chose the better part.

Determined conqueror of self
He mortified each wrong desire
Until God saw reflected there
His image purified by fire.

For one so set on heavenly things
The lying foe laid many a snare,
But he resisted manfully,
And persevered in constant prayer.

Remember Carmel’s Order now,
Made glorious by your sojourn here;
O strengthen us in love of Christ
That we may likewise persevere.

All praise be to the Trinity,
The Father with his only Son
And ever-blessed Paraclete,
While never-ending ages run.

L.M.
Adest natalis gloriae

CANTICLE OF ZECHARIAH

Ant. The just will speak wisdom, and truth will come from their lips, because God’s law is in their hearts.

PRAYER

Lord God,
you made Saint Albert of Trápani
a model of purity and prayer,
and a devoted servant of Our Lady.
May we practice these same virtues
and so be worthy always
to share the banquet of your grace.

Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
God, forever and ever.

Evening Prayer

HYMN

The river floweth swiftly on its course,
Dry shod the Blessed Albert speeds across.
His chastened piety sustains no loss
When combated.

He kisseth tenderly the leprous face,
Nor shrinks in horror from the hideous trace;
Behold, it shineth now with former grace,
Disease hath fled.

When his glad spirit sought its heavenward flight,
The bells were pealing from the belfry height,
Nor did they sound by any human might
In mournful toll.

Two Messengers from Heaven high in air
Chant funeral praises of this man of prayer,
Before a mighty concourse gathered there
To bless his soul.

The odor sweet arising from his bier
Cured pain and suffering when the sick drew near,
And all diseases fled his tomb in fear
Of heavenly power.

O God most high, forever praise to Thee,
To Son and Spirit equal honor be;
Let us adore the Blessed One in Three
At every hour.

10.10.10.4.
Passibus siccis rapidum

CANTICLE OF MARY

Ant. Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God.

Catholic Church 1993, Proper of the Liturgy of the Hours of the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and the Order of Discalced Carmelites (Rev. and augm.), Institutum Carmelitanum, Rome.

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July 27
SAINT TITUS BRANDSMA
Priest and Martyr

Optional Memorial

Born in Bolsward (The Netherlands) in 1881, Saint Titus Brandsma joined the Carmelite Order as a young man. Ordained a priest in 1905, he earned a doctorate in philosophy in Rome. He then taught in various schools in Holland and was named professor of philosophy as Rector Magnificus. He was noted for his constant availability to everyone. He was a professional journalist, and in 1935 he was appointed the ecclesiastical advisor to Catholic journalists. Both before and during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands he fought, faithful to the Gospel, against the spread of Nazi ideology and for the freedom of Catholic education and of the Catholic press. For this, he was arrested and sent to a succession of prisons and concentration camps where he brought comfort and peace to his fellow prisoners and did good even to his tormentors. In 1942, after much suffering and humiliation, he was killed at Dachau. He was beatified in 1985 and canonized by Pope Francis on 15 May 2022.

From the Common of One Martyr, except the following:

Office of Readings

The Second Reading (Alternative 1)

Introduction to Het lijden vergoddelijkt

From the writings of Saint Titus Brandsma

The mysticism of the Passion

Jesus called Himself the head of the Mystical Body, of which we are the members. He is the vine, we are the branches. He laid Himself in the winepress and Himself trod it. He handed us the wine so that, drinking it, we might lead His life, might share His suffering. Whoever wishes to do My Will, let him daily take up his cross. Whoever follows me has the light of life. I am the way, He said. I have given you an example, so that as I have done so you may do also. And when His disciples did not understand that His way would be a way of suffering, He explained this to them and said, “Should not the Christ so suffer, in order to enter into His glory?”

Then the hearts of the disciples burned within them. God’s word had set them on fire. And when the Holy Spirit had descended on them to fan that divine fire into flame, then they were glad to suffer scorn and persecution, whereby they resembled Him Who had preceded them on the way of suffering.

The prophets had already marked His way of suffering; the disciples now understood that He had not avoided that way. From the crib to the cross, suffering, poverty and lack of appreciation were His lot. He had directed His whole life to teaching people how different is God’s view of suffering, poverty and lack of human appreciation from the foolish wisdom of the world. After sin, suffering had to follow so that, through the cross, man’s lost glory and life with God might be regained. Suffering is the way to heaven. In the cross is salvation, in the cross is victory. God willed it so. He Himself assumed the obligation of suffering in view of the glory of redemption. St. Paul makes it clear to us how all the disasters of this earthly life are insignificant, how they must be considered as nothing and passing, in comparison with the glory that will be revealed to us when the time of suffering is past, and we come to share in God’s glory.

Mary, who kept all God’s words in her heart, in the fullness of grace granted her, understood the great value of suffering. While the apostles fled, she went out to meet the Savior on the way to Calvary and stood beneath the cross, in order to share His grief and shame to the end. And she carried Him to the grave, firmly trusting that He would rise.

We object when He hands us the chalice of His suffering. It is so difficult for us to resign ourselves to suffering. To rejoice in it strikes us as heroic. What is the value of our offering of self if we unite ourselves each morning only in word and gesture, rather than in thought and will, to that offering which we, together with the Church, make of Him with whom we are in the one body?

Jesus once wept over Jerusalem.

Oh, that this day you had known the gift of God!

Oh, that this day we might realize the value God has placed on the suffering He sends: He, the All-Good.

Responsory

R/. God forbid that I glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, * by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
V/. We preach Christ crucified, to others a stumbling block and a folly, but to us the power and the wisdom of God, * by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Prayer

Lord our God, source and giver of life,
you gave to Saint Titus the Spirit of courage
to proclaim human dignity and the freedom of the Church,
even in the throes of degrading persecution and death.
Grant us that same Spirit
so that in the coming of your kingdom of justice and peace
we might never be ashamed of the Gospel
but be enabled to recognize your loving-kindness
in all the events of our lives.

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
God for ever and ever.

Catholic Church 1993, Proper of the Liturgy of the Hours of the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and the Order of Discalced Carmelites (Rev. and augm.), Institutum Carmelitanum, Rome.

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In an exemplary way, Teresa Mary lived the exhortations of St. Paul, which we read in the liturgy: “from childhood” she allowed herself to be convinced by the truth of God’s word; built on it, she “stood firm” in it.

And as the years went by, she strengthened that inner “steadfastness” and robustness and knew how to “teach” it, convincing and correcting her own spiritual daughters, and training them in righteousness and every good work. Right up to today. And also into the future.

The particularly striking characteristic of Teresa Mary was joy. A woman of exceptional maternal tenderness and poise, her words of wisdom, her very gaze, and her demeanor were able to infuse everyone with so much light, so much comfort and so much hope, that she continually was sought out by people from all walks of life and conditions, who even waited for hours to be received by her in her little convent at the foot of the Bisenzio River embankment, to listen to her words of faith that were able to transfigure suffering and restore peace.

But Teresa Mary’s joy was not the illusory joy of this world. Her joy was the result of a high cost, which, moreover, she paid willingly, because she was driven by love for Christ and for souls.

She had much to suffer: from criticism to calumny; from the martyrdom of a malignant tumor that devoured her with frightful suffering to the anguish of a “dark night” of faith, which tested her in the innermost fibers of her spirit.

But in all this, perfectly abandoned in God’s hands, she knew how to live in peace and seemed almost to repeat Paul’s words when he says, “I overflow with joy in every tribulation” (2 Cor. 7:4).

This is the joy that the new Blessed teaches us. A joy that is truth, fullness, fruitfulness and that opens us to divine life. Today we are in great need of this joy. It is the joy that comes to us from the cross, that cross with which she wished to mark her name as a religious.

Saint John Paul II

Homily, Beatification of Teresa Maria della Croce Manetti (excerpt)
Florence, Italy, 19 October 1986

Translation from the Italian text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: Blessed Teresa Maria della Croce Manetti. Image credit: Carmelites

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@26aafa19 Interesting story:
"Since stone carving & installation were the most expensive items for the overall project, the monks decided to tackle that job themselves. This meant learning the whole CNC stone-carving workflow, all about stone cutting machinery, operating CNC machines, CAD modelling, CAM programming, stone masonry & construction techniques...
a few disasters..."

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@26aafa19 Interesting story:
"Since stone carving & installation were the most expensive items for the overall project, the monks decided to tackle that job themselves. This meant learning the whole CNC stone-carving workflow, all about stone cutting machinery, operating CNC machines, CAD modelling, CAM programming, stone masonry & construction techniques...
a few disasters..."

Edit: community is controversial.
#StoneCarving #shortcut #GothicArchitecture #CAD #Carmelite #monastery #Wyoming

On Sunday 31 March 1935 the Augsburg Post newspaper published an article by #EdithStein on the history & spirit of Carmel. She explained the essence of our Rule, to "meditate on the Law of the Lord" and "to watch in prayer."

Learn more:
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On Sunday 31 March 1935 the Augsburg Post newspaper published an article by #EdithStein on the history & spirit of Carmel. She explained the essence of our Rule, to "meditate on the Law of the Lord" and "to watch in prayer."

Learn more:
http://carmelitequotes.blog/2023/03/30/edith-31mar1935/

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On Sunday 31 March 1935 the Augsburg Post newspaper published an article by #EdithStein on the history & spirit of Carmel. She explained the essence of our Rule, to "meditate on the Law of the Lord" and "to watch in prayer."

Learn more:
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"Make those who will profess vows here learn through a long trial period not to think their life will amount to words alone, without deeds also."

(St. Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfection 32:5, footnote 1, Kavanaugh translation)
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“The fundamental temptation, for Jesus as for us, is to set ourselves up as rivals of God our Father,” writes Discalced Carmelite friar Antoine-Marie Leduc, who reflects on Jesus' temptation in the desert.

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Martyr St Titus Brandsma was born in the Netherlands #onthisday 23 February 1881. Sixty years later, when forced to declare that he wasn't a Jew: "Obviously I'm pure Frisian. But this is very painful for the Jews. I must stand alongside them."

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"I know I will have to earn the holy habit with some severe #trials. They have already started in that my mother has begun with renewed vigor to oppose the forthcoming decision" to request to receive the #Carmelite habit in 1934

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"I know I will have to earn the holy habit with some severe #trials. They have already started in that my mother has begun with renewed vigor to oppose the forthcoming decision" to request to receive the #Carmelite habit in 1934

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"I know I will have to earn the holy habit with some severe #trials. They have already started in that my mother has begun with renewed vigor to oppose the forthcoming decision" to request to receive the #Carmelite habit in 1934

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Servant of God Léonie Martin suffered from #eczema since childhood; in 1890, her condition was flaring badly, so a pilgrimage to Lourdes was planned. Read the letter from St. Thérèse describing Léonie's plans
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Servant of God Léonie Martin suffered from #eczema since childhood; in 1890, her condition was flaring badly, so a pilgrimage to Lourdes was planned. Read the letter from St. Thérèse describing Léonie's plans
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Servant of God Léonie Martin suffered from #eczema since childhood; in 1890, her condition was flaring badly, so a pilgrimage to Lourdes was planned. Read the letter from St. Thérèse describing Léonie's plans
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#EdithStein received the sacrament of Confirmation #onthisday in 1922. Visit our blog to read quotes about her conversion from her novice mistress, a Carmelite scholar, and Edith herself.
🕊️ Happy Anniversary!
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#EdithStein received the sacrament of Confirmation #onthisday in 1922. Visit our blog to read quotes about her conversion from her novice mistress, a Carmelite scholar, and Edith herself.
🕊️ Happy Anniversary!
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#EdithStein received the sacrament of Confirmation #onthisday in 1922. Visit our blog to read quotes about her conversion from her novice mistress, a Carmelite scholar, and Edith herself.
🕊️ Happy Anniversary!
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Blessed Marie of the Incarnation was born #onthisday 1 February 1566 in Paris. She played an important role in the founding of the Discalced Carmelite nuns in France. St. Zélie Martin was one of her admirers.

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Blessed Marie of the Incarnation was born #onthisday 1 February 1566 in Paris. She played an important role in the founding of the Discalced Carmelite nuns in France. St. Zélie Martin was one of her admirers.

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Saint #EdithStein was grateful for the #peace she found in the Carmel of Cologne. Visit our blog to read her last letter written before she requested to be clothed in the Carmelite habit
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Saint #EdithStein was grateful for the #peace she found in the Carmel of Cologne. Visit our blog to read her last letter written before she requested to be clothed in the Carmelite habit
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Saint #EdithStein was grateful for the #peace she found in the Carmel of Cologne. Visit our blog to read her last letter written before she requested to be clothed in the Carmelite habit
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“What is the charge?” asked #TitusBrandsma when the Gestapo came to arrest him on 19 January 1942. They searched his cell. He whispered to the friars as he was led away, "Memento mei"—pray for me.
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In this Sunday's gospel, we read that John the Baptist saw the Spirit come down from heaven and remain on Jesus; in a similar way, St Elizabeth of the Trinity begs the Spirit to come upon her and create "a kind of incarnation of the Word."

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http://carmelitequotes.blog/2023/01/14/liz-prayer/

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In this Sunday's gospel, we read that John the Baptist saw the Spirit come down from heaven and remain on Jesus; in a similar way, St Elizabeth of the Trinity begs the Spirit to come upon her and create "a kind of incarnation of the Word."

🙏🏾 Read her famous prayer to the Holy Trinity
http://carmelitequotes.blog/2023/01/14/liz-prayer/

#stelizabethofthetrinity #sunday #gospel #gospelofjohn #stjohnthebaptist #holyspirit #heaven #jesus #incarnation #eternalword #prayer #catholic #carmelite #quotes

In this Sunday's gospel, we read that John the Baptist saw the Spirit come down from heaven and remain on Jesus; in a similar way, St Elizabeth of the Trinity begs the Spirit to come upon her and create "a kind of incarnation of the Word."

🙏🏾 Read her famous prayer to the Holy Trinity
http://carmelitequotes.blog/2023/01/14/liz-prayer/

#stelizabethofthetrinity #sunday #gospel #gospelofjohn #stjohnthebaptist #holyspirit #heaven #jesus #incarnation #eternalword #prayer #catholic #carmelite #quotes

"The Lord’s resurrection assures us that despite fears, failures, and threats, no effort we make to defend life, human dignity, and freedom ever will be lost."
#BishopSilvioJoseBaez

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St. Thérèse was clothed in the Discalced Carmelite habit in the Carmel of Lisieux #onthisday in 1889. Visit our blog and read her reflection on the Carmelite vocation and a brief commentary by Conrad de Meester, OCD

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St. Thérèse was clothed in the Discalced Carmelite habit in the Carmel of Lisieux #onthisday in 1889. Visit our blog and read her reflection on the Carmelite vocation and a brief commentary by Conrad de Meester, OCD

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St. Thérèse was clothed in the Discalced Carmelite habit in the Carmel of Lisieux #onthisday in 1889. Visit our blog and read her reflection on the Carmelite vocation and a brief commentary by Conrad de Meester, OCD

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"I thrill with emotion when I think of it—at Benediction on the Feast of the Epiphany, He suffered Himself, in His measureless mercy, to be carried in my unworthy hands. Judge if I did not tremble, as I placed for Exposition on the Altar, the Creator of the Universe, held in my feeble hands… O, love of God!"
#ServantOfGod #HermannCohen

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"I thrill with emotion when I think of it—at Benediction on the Feast of the Epiphany, He suffered Himself, in His measureless mercy, to be carried in my unworthy hands. Judge if I did not tremble, as I placed for Exposition on the Altar, the Creator of the Universe, held in my feeble hands… O, love of God!"
#ServantOfGod #HermannCohen

#Catholic #Carmelite #quotes

"I thrill with emotion when I think of it—at Benediction on the Feast of the Epiphany, He suffered Himself, in His measureless mercy, to be carried in my unworthy hands. Judge if I did not tremble, as I placed for Exposition on the Altar, the Creator of the Universe, held in my feeble hands… O, love of God!"
#ServantOfGod #HermannCohen

#Catholic #Carmelite #quotes

In his “Testament of a Loving Father,” St Kuriakos Elias #Chavara dispenses wisdom for the renewal of Catholic #families. “Tell me who your friends are,” he writes, “I will tell you who you are.”

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https://carmelitequotes.blog/2023/01/03/chavara-quote/

#stkuriakoseeliaschavara #chavara #quotes
#saintoftheday #catholic #carmelite

Happy New Year from Carmelite Quotes!

Here's a new year's quote from Saint Edith Stein: "I would like to bring you a little joy on New Year's Day" (29 Dec 1929).

#NewYear #Catholic #Carmelite #EdithStein #quotes

Happy New Year from Carmelite Quotes!

Here's a new year's quote from Saint Edith Stein: "I would like to bring you a little joy on New Year's Day" (29 Dec 1929).

#NewYear #Catholic #Carmelite #EdithStein #quotes

Happy New Year from Carmelite Quotes!

Here's a new year's quote from Saint Edith Stein: "I would like to bring you a little joy on New Year's Day" (29 Dec 1929).

#NewYear #Catholic #Carmelite #EdithStein #quotes

Père Jacques de Jésus reflections on the #Annunciation “When the angel Gabriel came to ask Mary's consent to the unique honor & extravagant joy of being the Mother of God, the Lord did not issue an order.”

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📸 Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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Père Jacques de Jésus reflections on the #Annunciation “When the angel Gabriel came to ask Mary's consent to the unique honor & extravagant joy of being the Mother of God, the Lord did not issue an order.”

Read his reflection👇🏾
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📸 Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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Père Jacques de Jésus reflections on the #Annunciation “When the angel Gabriel came to ask Mary's consent to the unique honor & extravagant joy of being the Mother of God, the Lord did not issue an order.”

Read his reflection👇🏾
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📸 Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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"To love greatly is more than to love simply: it is, as it were, to love doubly."
#StJohnOfTheCross
#Catholic #Carmelite #quotes #love