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Father Iain Matthew, OCD explores St. John of the Cross' concept of the "living image within, who is Christ crucified." Faith appears as Christ's action, "claiming us from within" as on the road to Emmaus.
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On this date in 1906 St Elizabeth of the Trinity perceives her heavenly mission: “to draw souls by helping them go out of themselves to cling to God by a wholly simple and loving movement, and to keep them in this great silence within...”
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I think that in Heaven my mission will be to draw souls
St Teresa felt God tearing out her insides and burning her heart with the fire of Love
Carmelite spirituality is not contemplative and apostolic. It is apostolic because it is contemplative
For Secular Carmelites, Mary is a model of total commitment to God’s Kingdom
Enter within yourself and work
Acts that formerly helped the soul now hinder it
The worst was that interior fire and despair
The Lord wanted me to see the place the devils had prepared there for me
Is a vision like this conceivable without a personal, inner experience of God?
You, nearer to me than I to myself
One understands that only the dying of the sensory being is felt and nothing is experienced of the beginning of the new life that is concealed beneath it.
"interior peace and quiet and repose"
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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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