Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
St Raphael Kalinowski’s years of hard labor in Siberia became a great grace that prepared him for life as a Carmelite: he knew that life’s biggest and most difficult problems are resolved on one’s knees.
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The Synod for Consecrated Life closed on this date in 1994; St John Paul II wrote in ‘Vita Consecrata’ that “the history of spirituality owes much to Saints like Teresa of Jesus and Catherine of Siena.”
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Titus Brandsma writes to a formator many years later, "You came to my bedside [as a second-year philosophy student] and would not allow me to think about my studies, you wouldn’t even allow me to talk about philosophy... More than a professor, for me you were a father."
St. Thérèse explains that during her novitiate she had difficulty during her one-on-one sessions with her novice mistress: "I had never become accustomed to speaking about my soul and I didn’t know how to express what was going on within it."
We are speaking to other souls that, in the end, enter the castle: they entrust themselves to our Lord and reflect on who they are, although in a rather hurried fashion
The doctrine of Teresa of Avila shines through the charisms
On St. Gregory Nazianzen's Day, May 9 they vowed not to leave
Continue always to pray with me, that Jesus may absorb and possess us.
O deign to place us all within thy breast!
Ask the Virgin Mary to be your guide - to be your star, the lantern that shines for you amid the darkness of your life. Saint Teresa of the Andes Learn more about the Virgen del Carmen
I will fly to the dear little dovecote on May 7
O best of fathers, how accountable we would be if we didn’t become saints
The image of the Mother of God demonstrates the basic spiritual attitude which corresponds to woman’s natural vocation
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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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