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Know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself; the Lord hears when I call to him.

Psalm 4:3

These words of the Responsorial Psalm express the secret of the life of Blessed Nuno of St. Mary, a hero and saint of Portugal. The 70 years of his life belong to the second half of the 14th century and the first half of the 15th, which saw this nation consolidate its independence from Castille and expand beyond the ocean, not without a special plan of God opening new routes that were to favour the transit of Christ’s Gospel to the ends of the earth.

St. Nuno felt he was an instrument of this lofty design and enrolled in the militia Christi, that is, in the service of witness that every Christian is called to bear in the world. He was characterized by an intense life of prayer and absolute trust in divine help. Although he was an excellent soldier and a great leader, he never permitted these personal talents to prevail over the supreme action that comes from God.

St. Nuno allowed no obstacle to come in the way of God’s action in his life, imitating Our Lady, to whom he was deeply devoted and to whom he publicly attributed his victories. At the end of his life, he retired to the Carmelite convent whose building he had commissioned.

I am glad to point this exemplary figure out to the whole Church particularly because he exercised his life of faith and prayer in contexts apparently unfavourable to it, as proof that in any situation, even military or in war time, it is possible to act and to put into practice the values and principles of Christian life, especially if they are placed at the service of the common good and the glory of God.

Pope Benedict XVI

Homily, Holy Mass for the Canonization of Nuno de Santa María (excerpts)
St. Peter’s Square, 26 April 2009

Featured image: Ukrainian photographer Nik Shuliahin captured this detailed image of a full coat of armor. Image credit: Nik Shuliahin / Unsplash (Stock photo)

https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/11/05/b16-nunocanoniz/

#canonization #faith #homily #MarianDevotion #military #PopeBenedictXVI #Portugal #prayer #StNunoAlvaresPereira #StNunoOfStMary

“My Jesus, where art Thou?”

St. Mary Magdalen de’ Pazzi

Born in Florence on 2 April 1566 and baptized at the “beautiful St John” font with the name Caterina, St. Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi showed a particular sensitivity to the supernatural from childhood and was attracted by intimate colloquy with God.

In this context she reached the decision to leave the world and enter the Carmel of St. Mary of the Angels at Borgo San Frediano, where on 30 January 1583 she received the Carmelite habit and the name of Sister Mary Magdalene.

In March of 1584, she fell gravely ill and asked to be able to make her profession prior to the time, and on 27 May, Feast of the Trinity, she was carried into the choir on her pallet, where she pronounced before the Lord her vows of chastity, poverty and obedience for ever.

From this moment an intense mystical season began which was also the source of the Saint’s great ecstatic fame. The Carmelites of St. Mary of the Angels have five manuscripts in which are recorded the extraordinary experiences of their young Sister.

Like Catherine of Siena, she felt “forced” to write some letters of entreaty to the Pope, Curial Cardinals, her Archbishop and other ecclesial personages, for a decisive commitment to “The Renovation of the Church”, as the title of the manuscript that contains them says. It consists of 12 letters dictated in ecstasy, perhaps never sent, but which remain as a testimony of her passion for the Sponsa Verbi.

With Pentecost of 1590 her difficult trial ended. She promised to dedicate herself with all her energy to the service of the community and in particular to the formation of novices. Sister Mary Magdalene had the gift to live communion with God in an ever more interior form, so as to become a reference point for the whole community who still today continue to consider her “mother”.

St. Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi continues to be an inspiring spiritual figure for the Carmelites Nuns of the Ancient Observance. They see in her the “Sister” who has travelled the entire way of transforming union with God and who finds in Mary the “star” of the way to perfection.

This great Saint has for everyone the gift of being a spiritual teacher, particularly for priests, to whom she always nourished a true passion.

Pope Benedict XVI

Letter to Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, Archbishop of Florence (excerpts)
Fourth Centenary of the Death of St. Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi
29 April 2007

Note: St. Mary Magdalen of the Incarnate Word de’ Pazzi was beatified on this day, 27 April 1627 by Pope Urban VII.

Featured image: This detail of a portrait of Saint Mary Magdalen de’ Pazzi by Bernard de Bailliu (Flemish, 1641-1694) and another unidentified artist is an oil paint illumination of an engraving attached to a panel (17th or 18th c.). It is part of the collection in the Museo del Convento de Santa Teresa, Arequipa, Peru. Photo: Franz Grupp / PESSCA 2921B Image credit: Ojeda, A 2005-2023, Project for the Engraved Sources of Spanish Colonial Art (PESSCA), PESSCA, viewed 25 April 2019, https://colonialart.org/.

https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/04/26/pazzi-b16ltr2007/

#Carmelites #illness #inspiration #mystic #nuns #PopeBenedictXVI #StMaryMagdalenDePazzi #teacher #trials #willOfGod

Seems odd that Pope Benedict XVI has died, yet we’re all watching the U.S. House of Representatives for the proverbial “white smoke”? Perhaps we’ll see it tomorrow on January 6th?

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https://boffosocko.com/2023/01/05/55813439/