She feels that she has been led into an immense, unbounded desert. And this, for her, is the more delightful, pleasant, and lovely, the deeper, vaster, and more solitary it is.
St. Edith Stein Novena 2021, Day 9: An immense, unbounded desert
St. Edith Stein Novena 2021, Day 4: Her aim was the ‘desert’ of Carmel
She had already known when she moved to her 'Nazareth' that her aim was the 'desert' of Carmel. But she had to await the Lord’s hour.
Quote of the day, 21 July: Conrad de Meester, O.C.D.
We can say without exaggeration that few young girls have loved her Lord Jesus. In order to find her Beloved, she walked through the very heart of the desert...
Quote of the day, 10 December: Conrad de Meester, O.C.D.
It was a very bold decision for Thérèse to agree to make the desert her life
Quote of the day: 15 June
If we don’t feed on Jesus, we'll succumb to weariness
Feeding on Jesus — Silvio José Báez, O.C.D.
We must not stop being fed by Jesus
16 May: Saint Simon Stock
Venerated for his personal holiness and devotion to Our Lady
Quote of the day: 15 May
They tarried long in the solitude of the desert
Quote of the day: 1 March
Only attachment to God makes us free
Quote of the day: 28 February
Mercy should put the brake on indignation
Quote of the day: 6 September
Silence is not an empty void; God dwells therein
Quote of the day: 2 September
All true ascesis as a desert lies
The life of the desert is admirable
Quote of the day: 19 August
Quote of the day: 20 July
God doesn’t want us to feel fearful, neither does he want us to sleep
16 May: Saint Simon Stock
Simon Stock has been venerated in the Carmelite Order for his personal holiness and his devotion to Our Lady
Advent 9: Desert
"The life of the desert is admirable"
St. Edith Stein Novena – Day 9
She accordingly feels that she has been led into a remarkably deep and vast wilderness unattainable by any human being, into an immense, unbounded desert...
St. Edith Stein Novena – Day 8
One understands that only the dying of the sensory being is felt and nothing is experienced of the beginning of the new life that is concealed beneath it.
Slave food vs. Soul food: Manna in the desert or the Bread of Life?
St. Edith Stein Novena – Day 5
If he shows the way, then he also knows that it is not a wrong track where people suddenly get lost; no spurious way that ends in desert sands.
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