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St. Elizabeth of the Trinity described for her family the 1903 Easter celebration in the Carmel of Dijon. “It seemed our Master was going to appear to us... as He once did to Mary Magdalene.”
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Carmelite theologian Sr. Gemma Hinricher, OCD explores our fundamental question, "where is God in our lives," suggesting that He is more hidden than absent in the dark, parched stretches of daily life.
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“We know that the light of Jesus is always with us,” says Bishop Báez. “Like the man born blind, we allow ourselves continually to be enlightened by Jesus. We weren’t created to dwell in darkness.”
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As the Eyptians pressed hard behind the Israelites, Moses told them, “you have only to be still.” In 'The Dark Night,' St. John of the Cross proclaims that he found “sheer grace” in darkness, hiddenness, and stillness.
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St. John of the Cross’s eleventh poem closes with a classic quote: “love works so in me that whether things go well or badly love turns them to one sweetness transforming the soul in itself.”
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Ask the Virgin Mary to be your guide – to be your star, the lantern that shines for you amid the darkness of your life. #StTeresaoftheAndesTweet
It is hardly surprising to learn that the poet Jessica Powers was a great hymn writer, too. One of the hymns that she wrote for the Carmelite liturgies appears on the Solemnity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. In it, she mentions the gift of the scapular.
Like our Lord in today's gospel reading, St. Teresa compares the soul to a tree that is planted by the fount of life. "There would be no freshness, no fruit, if it were not for this fount sustaining the tree, preventing it from drying up, and causing it to produce good fruit."
From the beginning of the Interior Castle, St. Teresa of Avila explains what it would mean for this "beautiful castle... to fall into mortal sin; there's no darker darkness nor anything more obscure and black...."
We must be in darkness to see the divine light pass over us...
The greatest figures of prophecy and sanctity step forth out of the darkest night. [...] Certainly, the decisive turning points in world history are substantially co-determined by souls whom no history book ever mentions.
For the blinder love is the more it gives such life, holding the soul surrendered, living without light in darkness.
For God’s sake they are able to suffer a little oppression and dryness without yearning to return to those better times
The darkest path is the most secure: "Whoever seeks God and nothing else is not wandering in darkness no matter how dark and poor you think you are."
Abandonment is a steel file and the endurance of darkness leads to great light
I do not hear his voice. Nothing. Darkness.
My joy, it's the Holy Will of Jesus my only love
He knows that even though I don’t have the joy of the Faith, I try at least to do its work
Abandonment is a steel file and the endurance of darkness leads to great light
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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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