Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
Having just celebrated the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Bishop Silvio José Báez, o.c.d. helps us go forth in mission. "In the Eucharist God became bread and he enters my heart, making me live with greater clarity and dignity so that I ask myself, 'what I am doing for my brothers and sisters'?"
In his canticles "For the Love of Jesus Christ", which were published in 1851, the Servant of God Hermann Cohen wrote a summary of his vocation in the dedication pages of the book, closing with a hymn of praise to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament: "Throw yourselves at His Feet; give Him your heart, and He will bless you."
St. Edith Stein departed from Cologne bound for Echt, Holland on the night of 31 December 1938. In a farewell poem, she wrote: "In the heart of Jesus, which was pierced, The kingdom of heaven and the land of earth are bound together. Here is for us the source of life."
Come to this heavenly feast which has been prepared by eternal wisdom. Come, draw near. Abandon your baubles and empty dreams, cast off the rags that cover you. Ask Jesus for the shining robe of pardon, then with a new heart, with a pure heart quench your thirst at the limpid fountain of his love.
When we see that Savior before us with the eyes of faith as the Scriptures portray him, then our desire to receive him in the bread of life increases.
As Magdalen shed tears and poured perfume over the feet of Jesus, may you never tire of offering your prayers, aspirations and gifts before the tabernacle
"We already have three forms of perpetual adoration... but there remains a vacuum to be filled"
Her great desire will be fulfilled: I will be a priest, an apostle according to God's heart
The pandemic allowed Therese to receive Jesus every day
For a Carmelite, Communion is heaven
If it weren't for the Eucharist...
Rather than a pedagogy Teresa’s is a true “mystagogy” of prayer
God is with us; this should be enough
Without the Eucharist we’d have nothing to say to the world
He is near to us; he wants to be sought and found by us
Blessed be he who arranges everything for our good!
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
She walked very quietly close to the wall
This contact, this union with Jesus is everything
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