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Christ appeared to St Teresa of Avila in an imaginative vision as she received Holy Communion from St John of the Cross on this date in 1572, saying: “Behold this nail; it is a sign you will be My bride from today on.”
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We recall the anniversary of St. Elizabeth of the Trinity's Confirmation on 8 June 1891 in the Church of Notre-Dame of Dijon, with eyewitness testimony provided by her biographer, Father Conrad de Meester, O.C.D.
We recall the anniversary of the profession of the foundress of the Discalced Carmelite nuns in the United States, Mother Clare Joseph Dickinson on 3 June 1773, with an excerpt from her journal of the voyage from Netherlands to America on the anniversary date.
St. Louis Martin wrote to his wife, St. Zélie Martin to describe his happiness when he was able to visit the shrine of Notre-Dame des Victoires on a business trip to Paris: it "is like a little heaven on earth."
When she went to Rome, she told me that she had no fear of her purity being tainted by anything she came across on the trip, because she had placed herself under St Joseph’s protection.
Behold this nail; it is a sign you will be My bride from today on.
Her great desire will be fulfilled: I will be a priest, an apostle according to God's heart
Since that first embrace, Jesus did not let me go
The pandemic allowed Therese to receive Jesus every day
My brother died the Sunday after the feast of St. John
For whom do you work? Whose service are you doing?
If we don’t feed on Jesus, we'll succumb to weariness
We must not stop being fed by Jesus
Thérèse predicted that after her death, we would never lack “our daily bread”
For a Carmelite, Communion is heaven
I had the joy of receiving Communion at Notre-Dame des Victoires
Since that first embrace, Jesus did not let me go
Since that first embrace, Jesus did not let me go but took me for Himself
The more intense this intimate life is, the more we will be Carmelites
we had the happiness of going to com[muni]on
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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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