Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
In her article for the Augsburg Post in March 1935, St Edith Stein mentioned the origin of the brown scapular of Carmel: "the Blessed Virgin appeared to the general of the Order, Simon Stock, an Englishman, and gave him the scapular." Edith takes this piece of Carmelite tradition and firmly plants it within the Order's Marian spirituality.
Saint Edith Stein writes, "The legend of the Order tells us that the Mother of God would have liked to remain with the hermit brothers on Mount Carmel. We can certainly understand that she felt drawn to the place where she had been venerated through the ages..."
Carmelites [...] feel constrained to undertake this persevering march toward the mountain of God where fire burns but does not consume.
The offense that the misguided people give to the Lord by their manner of worship hurts Elijah so much that he wants to die.
"This prophet whom God commanded to go forth into the desert... is to be the model of all who withdraw into solitude"
Elijah stands before God’s face because all of his love belongs to the Lord. He lives outside all natural human relationships.
ZELO ZELATUS SUM PRO DOMINO DEO EXERCITUUM: I have been most zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts
Ambrosius of St. Arsenius, the first Carmelite to die on Mount Carmel in a letter to his General (1634), he tells how he saw the very first church in the world erected in honour of the Mother of God. Behind the altar was the cave where Elijah hid...
We live in a time of radicalism... let us be radical as well
Scripture presents Elijah as a man of crystalline faith
May I ask you for a memento to our holy Father (St.) Elijah
Elijah, the prophets and conversion of heart: Elijah is the "father" of the prophets
All of the Carmelites proclaim Elijah to be their guide and father
ZELO ZELATUS SUM PRO DOMINO DEO EXERCITUUM: I have been most zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts
Carmel finds in Mary the fullness of the spirit that is its own
He trudged across the country, proclaiming truth to those who needed to hear it
The Patristic tradition has seen a model of monastic religious life in Elijah
God doesn’t want us to feel fearful, neither does he want us to sleep
Even the great men of God can suffer moments of crisis and fear
ZELO ZELATUS SUM PRO DOMINO DEO EXERCITUUM
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