Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
Today St. Edith Stein shares with a close friend that Edith realized religious life isn't a matter of naval-gazing but rather an imperative "to carry the divine life" into the world. And the "the deeper one is drawn into God", the greater is this mandate.
St. Teresa of Avila counsels her daughters not to worry whether they are doing household chores or practicing mental prayer: "True humility consists very much in great readiness to be content with whatever the Lord may want to do with them and in always finding oneself unworthy to be called His servant."
So there is no opposition of the contemplative life to the active. The former is the great support of the latter.
Scripture presents Elijah as a man of crystalline faith
Carmelite spirituality is not contemplative and apostolic. It is apostolic because it is contemplative
Dear Gertrud von le Fort, I received your dear letter of Ascension Day
She is another Mary Magdalene whom nothing must distract from the One
Today we dare to introduce to the world this cloistered religious
Carmelites depend on God alone
I wish her to be called—Teresa of Jesus
Let us live with God as with a friend
Oh, my Sister, "to be Him," that is my whole dream
Burying myself in the depths of my soul
O best of fathers, how accountable we would be if we didn’t become saints
Gregory IX frees the Carmelites from property to focus on prayer
Your lifted hands are the very strength and hope of all our rising churches
She is the model of all who live by the Spirit of the gospel
What is a person to do with his desire to be with the Lord?
The greatest mystics never saw a tension between apostolic service and contemplative prayer -- for them, it would be impossible to have one without the other. How is it that these prayerful people did more than those who feel they are too busy for prayer?
This prophet whom God commanded to go forth into the desert is to be the model of all who withdraw into solitude renouncing sin and all sensory pleasures, indeed all earthly things.
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Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices. ~ St. Teresa of Avila
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