Oh! How beautiful is this good Mother! How good she is; she smiled at me and listened to my prayer; I thought of entrusting everything to her; and I said to her: Mother, make the foundation quickly, found a Carmel where your Divine Son was born… I believe that our prayer will be answered and that two pieces of good news will come to us at the same time.
Oh, how beautiful Mary is!…
Saint Mary of Jesus Crucified
Prières et Cantiques
Cahiers Réservés 5 (excerpt)

Written by Dmitry Shkolnik
St. Paul Orthodox Church
Dayton, Ohio
This English translation of the unpublished French manuscript is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission and attribution. We are grateful to the Discalced Carmelite nuns of the Holy Land for providing us with the full text of the Cahiers Réservés.
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