Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
In the Sixth Dwelling Place of the Interior Castle, St. Teresa once again commends the practice of reflection on the Passion of Our Lord: "Life is long, and there are in it many trials, and we need to look at Christ our model, how He suffered them, and also at His apostles and saints, so as to bear these trials with perfection."
Saint Zélie Martin learns that her breast cancer has reached such an advanced stage that it is inoperable. She writes to her husband, "I'll go to Lourdes on the first pilgrimage, and I hope the Blessed Mother will cure me, if it's necessary. In the meantime let's stop worrying."
Do as I did: pray, and you will not be carried away by the current.
Venerated for his personal holiness and devotion to Our Lady
The scapular is essentially a habit
Her Sisters referred to her as the "Mobile Tabernacle"
Oh! How beautiful is this good Mother! How good she is!
Flos carmeli, vitis florigera, splendor coeli, virgo puerpera singularis
Acuérdome que cuando murió mi madre... afligida fuime a una imagen de nuestra Señora
Cuando ves a mi Madre que me tiene en los brazos
¿Qué me puedes tú dar a mí?
Aquí se hace devota de la Reina del Cielo
Si la Virgen acababa con su Hijo que viésemos a nuestro Padre libre de estos frailes
Que nosotras hagamos la vida como verdaderas hijas de la Virgen
Do as I did: pray, and you will not be carried away by the current
Her humility was so real for she was always forgetful, unaware, freed from self.
Pray a lot, my dear little girl, for the success of the pilgrimage to Chartres
SALVE, Regina, mater misericordiae, vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve
Simon Stock has been venerated in the Carmelite Order for his personal holiness and his devotion to Our Lady
I have found favor with this sovereign Virgin in everything I have asked of her
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