The Synod for Consecrated Life closed on this date in 1994; St John Paul II wrote in ‘Vita Consecrata’ that “the history of spirituality owes much to Saints like Teresa of Jesus and Catherine of Siena.”
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Quote of the day, 8 July: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
At the beginning of the novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity writes to her great friend and spiritual companion, Canon Angles: "please consecrate me to the Blessed Virgin, for she, the Immaculate One, gave me the habit of Carmel..."
Quote of the day: 21 August
Consecrated life is a style or way of living Christian life
Quote of the day: 24 February
Carmel is heaven.
Quote of the day: 29 October
The Patristic tradition has seen a model of monastic religious life in Elijah
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