Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
How urgent it is for us to call on the Holy Spirit as we enroll, figuratively speaking, in the University of Divine Love! What do we have to do in order to benefit fully from our master’s lessons? First, we must consciously acknowledge the impossibility of progressing in prayer apart from our master. Recall the... Continue Reading →
Bishop Báez, preaching on the encounter of the Risen Christ with his disciples offers a timely commentary: "The Risen Christ always frees us and opens up horizons of mercy. Whoever believes in him and welcomes him always receives forgiveness as a gift..."
St. Teresa begins her commentary on the Song of Songs by mentioning a homily from one Holy Thursday: "I recall hearing a priest who was a religious preach a very admirable sermon, most of which was an explanation of those loving delights with which the bride communed with God... He was speaking about love since the sermon was on Maundy Thursday when one shouldn't be speaking of anything else..."
Happy Birthday to Blessed Titus Brandsma! From his article on Mary's motherhood of God: "In his Explanation of “The Living Flame of Love”, St. John of the Cross draws the Holy Mother of God as clearly as possible into the circle of his metaphor clarifying the mystical life...."
To live with the Spirit of God is to be a listener. It is to keep the vigil of mystery, earthless and still. One leans to catch the stirring of the Spirit, strange as the wind's will.
The greatest figures of prophecy and sanctity step forth out of the darkest night. [...] Certainly, the decisive turning points in world history are substantially co-determined by souls whom no history book ever mentions.
In Mary, we see the most beautiful image of our union with God. She, the bride of the H. Spirit, teaches us how also we, although not in that fullness of grace, but in a removed sense, must be brides of God the H. Spirit
Who are you, sweet light, that fills me And illumines the darkness of my heart?
O Consuming Fire, Spirit of Love, descend into my soul and make all in me as an incarnation of the Word
Whoever calls upon the Holy Spirit will seek me and find me, and through him he will find me.
The same difference lying between a habit and an act lies between the transformation in love and the flame of love.
We must learn to trust and confide in the guidance of the Holy Spirit. We must learn “the way of confidence and total trust”....
If the ship of our soul is still beaten by the winds or the storm, we must wake the Lord who is resting there, and he will immediately calm the sea
A praise of glory is a soul of silence that remains like a lyre under the mysterious touch of the Holy Spirit
Come, you who, descending into Mary, caused the Word to take flesh: effect in us by grace what you accomplished in her by grace and nature.
How truly wonderful you are, O Word of God, in the Holy Spirit; you cause him to infuse the soul with you
Our Lord told me He desires me to allow myself to be guided entirely by the Holy Spirit
Mary has brought it about that God, if we may say so, is glorified by God himself
I am the daughter of the Lord, the mother of the messiah, the spouse of the Holy Spirit... I am the woman promised to the world
Truly, truly, truly I say to you: Whoever calls upon the Holy Spirit will seek me and find me
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