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St. Thérèse of Lisieux studied French composition at the Benedictine abbey boarding school, Notre Dame du Pré. On 18 February 1886 she wrote "The Little Savoyard," a story that combines a tale of French mountain culture and childlike trust.
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Brother Lawrence comforts a sick nun, saying: "God indeed knows what we need, and everything he does is for our good." Brother Lawrence urges us to recognize and accept God's loving action.
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"I am the light of the world," says the Lord. Jessica Powers writes, "I know love, not a vise. I see aright, set free in morning on this ledge of light." Join the poet as she sings of God, who is like "a thousand acres."
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Well known Carmelite poet Jessica Powers explains how the image of Our Lady as a “ little light cloud rising / From Orient waters cleft by prophecy” inspires this prayer: “Cloud, encompass God and me.”
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In the Mass for the Second Sunday of Advent, we hear the prophet Isaiah speak of justice meted out with integrity. St John of the Cross asks, “what will your all-powerful justice do with the righteous and the sinner?”
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In "The Spiritual Canticle," St John of the Cross writes, “let us go forth to behold ourselves in your beauty to the mountain and to the hill,” which is to “knowledge in the divine Word, who in his height is signified here by the mountain.” Here we share excerpts from the Saint's powerful commentary.
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St. Elizabeth of the Trinity explained to Canon Angles, “I live in thanksgiving.” What a blessed ideal to adopt today and everyday. Read this excerpt from her letter and discover the secret to her attitude of gratitude.
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On 17 November 1991, St. John Paul II presided at the Rite of Canonization for Raphael Kalinowski. A 7-year-old boy from Wadowice who was struck by a car and suffered massive brain trauma, experienced an astonishing miracle of healing. We have his story.
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“The soul is a terrible thing; it cannot die,” writes Carmelite poet Jessica Powers. Her masterful meditation on the soul’s “two destinies” is worth pondering as we commemorate All Carmelite Souls.
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The day before she died, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity foresaw her death: “It is our Lady, full of light,” she said, “who will take me by the hand to lead me into heaven.” Thank you for joining our novena!
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Elizabeth summed up her heavenly calling thus: “My mission will be to draw souls into interior recollection, by helping them to go out from themselves.”
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In her song of praise to Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, Elizabeth exclaims that it is “God in us and we in him.” For Elizabeth, the Eucharist is “heaven on earth.”
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A good Teresian Carmelite, St. Elizabeth has her own concept of how “Martha and Mary” blend together: while we are in action, “the soul can remain buried in its contemplation.”
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“I believe that the secret of peace and happiness is to forget oneself,” St. Elizabeth says. St. Paul explains: “We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed… persecuted, but not forsaken.”
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St. Elizabeth quotes St. Paul’s letter to the Colossians, “set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died,” before she exclaims: “O blessed death in God!”
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St. Elizabeth defines her title, “Praise of Glory” as “a soul that gazes on God;” she also uses terms like reflector, bottomless abyss, and crystal. St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians provides the original context.
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“I have found my heaven on earth,” Elizabeth explains, “because Heaven is God, and God is in my soul.” St. Paul explains that Christ, who descended to earth, ascended “far above all the heavens, so that he might fill all things.”
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“He dwells in me—and I in Him,” Elizabeth writes to a priest. “I have only to love Him and let myself be loved.” St. Paul prays that we may we strengthened in our inner being as we are “being rooted and grounded in love.”
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