Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
Blesed Titus’ chief preoccupation in Amersfoort Camp was the needs of others. He had been in the camp barely two weeks when dysentery struck. Hundreds around him died, but Titus recovered enough to be released from the infirmary on March 30, 1942, the Monday of Holy Week that year. During his convalescence he visited those who were worse off than he was.
Right now, various ones are trying to find some way for me to be interned in a German priory of our Order... I have put the entire matter into the hands of St. Joseph who took the Virgin...
Happy Birthday to Blessed Titus Brandsma! From his article on Mary's motherhood of God: "In his Explanation of “The Living Flame of Love”, St. John of the Cross draws the Holy Mother of God as clearly as possible into the circle of his metaphor clarifying the mystical life...."
The Gospel spoke today about the love of enemies, that ability to reach out to those who persecute. Titus had that opportunity and lived it out so well. He had the ability to say, “You must love him, but perhaps not all the time, not all day, not at each moment.”
In an excerpt from the new English biography of Blessed Titus Brandsma, he talks about the great joy he experiences when he wears his Carmelite habit "because it is the symbol of Mary’s protection."
In Mary, we see the most beautiful image of our union with God. She, the bride of the H. Spirit, teaches us how also we, although not in that fullness of grace, but in a removed sense, must be brides of God the H. Spirit
So there is no opposition of the contemplative life to the active. The former is the great support of the latter.
He proclaimed human dignity and the freedom of the Church, even in the throes of degrading persecution and death
It is a practice in honour of Mary, but the salutation to Jesus, the adoration of her divine Son
Stay with me, with me, Jesus sweet, Your presence makes all things good for me.
In society, the sound principles of love and forgiveness must once again blossom and be practiced universally
I deleted “smoking” from the daily timetable and the day went on
We live in a time of radicalism... let us be radical as well
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It is as if they carefully expose that monastic garment to their Redeemer
I am quite alright.
I deleted “smoking” from the daily timetable and the day went on
God will have the last word and will reward the faithful servant
Certainly, such heroism cannot be improvised.
Countless have zealously given up their position, their property and even their life
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