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Blessed Maria Giuseppina of Jesus Crucified was beatified on 1 June 2008. A founding member of the Discalced Carmelite nuns at Ponti Rossi, Naples, she was known for her desire to suffer for love with Christ on the cross.
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Blessed Elia of St. Clement was beatified on 18 March 2006 in her native Bari, Italy. She prayed: “Crucified with You, I want to love You until death; I fall asleep clasping the cross of my Jesus.”
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“In sum, Sisters, what I conclude with is that we shouldn't build castles in the air,” St. Teresa writes in the final chapter of the Interior Castle. “The Lord doesn't look so much at the greatness of our works as at the love with which they are done.”
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“Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!” urged the psalmist. St. Thérèse turns to her Guardian Angel as she responds: “With your celestial aid, in peace I await the other life, the joys that will last forever.”
Even at the tender age of 15, St. Teresa of the Andes comprehended the importance of taking up the cross and following Jesus. But He called her to "take up the cross with love and joy."
Blessed Maria Sagrario of St. Aloysius Gonzaga was a Discalced Carmelite martyr of the Spanish Civil war, who was executed on 15 August 1936. In her writings, we find this passage: "Blessed be he who arranges everything for our good! In possessing him, we possess everything."
We thank you for joining us in this year's Novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel. As we conclude, St. Titus Brandsma leads us as we contemplate the Gospel for this Solemnity, the Virgin standing beneath the Cross of Jesus.
Jesus, my Jesus! [...] You see my weaknesses, my cowardice, my fears, my miseries! [...] I'm afraid of sacrifice, of the Cross.
At the foot of the cross, seeing its savior drink the bitter chalice to the very dregs, solely out of love for her, seeing him immolate himself for her sins, the soul dissolves with love for him
That Word was and is so great the heaven cannot contain Him; yet he wished to be contained in the small womb of the little Virgin!
Beneath the cross the Virgin of virgins becomes the Mother of Grace
John of the Cross, with his own experience, invites us to trust, to let ourselves be purified by God
Jesus, my crucified Love I just told you again to take my heart
On the cross God reveals himself as love and love alone
Jesus gave us the Cross so the Cross might give us Love
I am not forgetting you on my cross, where I taste unknown joys
More than ever the cross is a sign of contradiction
God has predestined me and has marked me with the seal of the Cross of His Christ
Meaning is a revelation known within the heart via love
Jesus gave us the Cross so the Cross might give us Love
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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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