Come is the love song of our race and Come our basic word of individual wooing. It lifts audacious arms of lowliness to majesty's most amiable undoing, to Godhood fleshed and cradled and made least.
Quote of the day, 1 December: Jessica Powers
Quote of the day, 14 October: Jessica Powers
What could the wise Teresa have been thinking to set these bounds on even my little love? This walling, barring, minimizing, shrinking— how could her great Castilian heart approve?
Quote of the day, 29 September: Jessica Powers
Then why should I take fright when foes or demons assail me with their treacheries or wrath, when I have knowledge that the Queen's archangel is keeper of my path?
Quote of the day, 15 August: Jessica Powers
Life which comes as a virgin to us all, most safely came to her. Time, when she passed, remained inviolate.
Quote of the day, 4 August: Jessica Powers
God is the strangest of all lovers; His ways are past explaining. He sets His heart on a soul...
Quote of the day, 16 July: Jessica Powers
Grant us grace to climb Mount Carmel and to learn that love is loss. Guide us still our ways outdistance all earth’s treasures save the cross.
Quote of the day, 7 July: Sr. Miriam of the Holy Spirit, O.C.D.
Your own reflection has revealed Your place, for she is utter light by Your own grace
Marie du jour 2021, May 31: Jessica Powers
I see a girl upon a donkey... I doubt the flowers; I doubt the road was kind
Marie du jour 2021, May 27: Jessica Powers
The Virgin Mary cannot enter into my soul for an indwelling. God alone has sealed this land as secretly His own
Quote of the day, 21 February: Jessica Powers
I entered the kingdom in Noah's week at the sign of the rainbow
Quote of the day, 3 January: Jessica Powers
Hither I came of old, bearing my myrrh and frankincense and gold
Quote of the day, 29 December: Jessica Powers
Where heart beat, there was Christ for me
Advent II — Wilderness
Time has become a wilderness of presence which too is essence of its jubilee
Quote of the day: 8 September
And in her light I find You hid within me
Quote of the day: 29 August
This is the badge of the friends of the Man of Sorrows: the mark of the cross, faint replica of His
Quote of the day: 4 July
I who bear God in the mysteries of grace beseech her: Cloud, encompass God and me.
Marie du jour 2020: 16 May
By the scapular we wear be your own sign of salvation
Marie du jour 2020: 3 May
I saw the tears upon the Virgin's face
Quote of the day: 24 April
I think of those who always seem to get the leavings
Quote of the day: 11 April
My steps surprised a dark Iscariot plotting in my own will
Carmelite Quotes 
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