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Carmelite Quotes @[email protected] · 2025-09-08 · 17:01 UTC

Quote of the day, 9 September: St. Raphael Kalinowski

The Visitation for 1901 was held on September 9 and was repeated every year at about the same time whenever [St. Raphael Kalinowski] was strong enough to undertake the journey. He wrote:

“They sent me to you in spite of my unworthiness. In order to carry out this visit well, I would have to have the spirit of our Father Elijah, our Mother Teresa and our Father John of the Cross, which I don’t have. So if anything good is to happen, it will be the work of God, but I will boast of my weaknesses.”

In the opinion of Kalinowski, the purpose of a canonical visit is found in the Lord’s Prayer: “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven” and he used this as a motto for the nuns.

“We are in Carmel,” he would say, “to submit to God in giving up the things of this world, and in that way drawing down on ourselves and others the help we need to attain eternal happiness. The best part of this sacrifice, which is also the most pleasing to God, is that we surrender our will to Him by the vow of obedience. Obedience is the death of one’s own will, but that’s not enough. We need to persevere until death…. Our obedience offers us the perfect opportunity for our will to disappear completely and the will of God to be the guide of our actions. So when is our obedience perfect? We can see it in the mirror which the canonical visitation holds up to us. This is a mirror of our sacred obligations. If you do not obey them perfectly, the visitor will point it out to you, and you should take that as if it came from the lips of God – with respect and joy.”

Timothy Tierney, O.C.D.

Chapter 8, “Vicar Provincial for the Carmelite Nuns”

Note: Saint Raphael Kalinowski was appointed Vicar Provincial for the Discalced Carmelite nuns in Galicia in 1901.

Tierney, T 2016, Saint Raphael Kalinowski: Apprenticed to Sainthood in Siberia, Balboa Press Australia.

Featured image: Ruins of the Discalced Carmelite Monastery in Zagórz, Poland. Image credit: uranos1980 / Adobe Stock.

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Carmelite Quotes @[email protected] · 2024-07-27 · 17:33 UTC

Do you want to get to heaven? Embrace the baseness of poverty and it will be yours….

It is the love of the poor that establishes kings. Blessed are those who do not chase after those goods for which their possession is tiresome, whose love is defiling, and whose loss is torture…

The kingdom of God is given rather than promised to the poor… All those of good will… leaving all for Christ as He left all for them, follow Him wherever He goes.

Blessed John Soreth

Cited by François de Sainte-Marie, OCD
L’Esprit de la Règle du Carmel
Ephemerides Carmeliticae 02 (1948/1) 205-244

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

Featured image: This detail of a photo by Lili Almog shows a Discalced Carmelite nun revealing her profession cross. The photo was taken during Almog’s work on the Perfect Intimacy project, which highlighted the life of three Discalced Carmelite monasteries: Haifa, Bethlehem, and Port Tobacco (USA). Image credit: Discalced Carmelites

https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/07/27/soreth-heaven/

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