Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
Bishop Silvio José Báez, ocd explains that the bond of communion in the Holy Trinity is one of profound love, intimacy, and generosity. When we embrace belief in the Trinity, we embrace God, the supreme model of true love.
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Père Jacques de Jésus says that our relationship with God "is an embrace of love." He continues, "within the Trinity, the Holy Spirit is the living, limitless prayer of God." Life is a work of love!
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The Servant of God Père Jacques de Jésus died on 2 June 1945, less than one month after he was released from hard labor and harsh conditions at Mauthausen Nazi prison camp. Communing with God through abandonment was his "key to God's love and peace."
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Blessed Maria Giuseppina of Jesus Crucified was beatified on 1 June 2008. A founding member of the Discalced Carmelite nuns at Ponti Rossi, Naples, she was known for her desire to suffer for love with Christ on the cross.
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"The Holy Spirit knew the Virgin Mary in advance, for he taught her the rich lessons of prayer," says Père Jacques de Jésus. “The Holy Spirit inflamed Mary’s heart and swept her up into the bosom of the triune God.”
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St. Raphael Kalinowski notes that as our culture rushes headlong to embrace technology, we can find a sure support in the midst of confusion: "devotion to the Most Holy Virgin" as we seek "the one thing necessary for salvation."
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Love was a frequent theme in the life of St Joachina de Vedruna. In these sayings of the saint, one can see why she urged her Sisters on to practice "love, love, and more love, that never says, 'that's enough'."
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St. John of the Cross writes about the beauty of nature as an aid to prayer, that it is one of the places where "God usually moves the will." Don't go there to focus on creation, though; focus on God the Creator.
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Bishop Silvio José Báez, ocd reminds us, “only the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, can make us walk in the truth. The Spirit is the living memory of Jesus in our hearts.”
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St. John of the Cross explains that when Jesus says “those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them,” a certain touch of divinity is produced in the soul.
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We recall the beatification of Maria Teresa of St. Joseph on 13 May 2006. This founder of the Carmelites of the Divine Heart of Jesus said that St. Teresa of Avila was her “teacher and guide.”
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What does the Bible mean when it says to lift up your heads? Bishop Silvio Báez, OCD explains that the Virgin Mary teaches us the meaning: "being able to talk to God" in "a gesture of humility."
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St. Edith Stein explains the teaching of St. John of the Cross, indicating how faith, hope, and love enable us to draw closer to transforming union with God in our intellect, memory, and will.
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Blessed Elia of St. Clement received her First Communion on 8 May 1911. The night before, she dreamed of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus who predicted: "You will be a nun like me."
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St. Elizabeth of the Trinity is fascinated by the Virgin’s solitary contemplation: “In what silence, what recollection, what adoration she must have been wrapped in the depth of her soul.”
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In St. Edith Stein’s biography of St. Teresa, Edith recounts the death of Teresa’s mother, which inspired her love of the Virgin: “The young person certainly surmised that she needed special protection.”
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St. Edith Stein penned a heartfelt poem when her sister Rosa was baptized. In it, Rosa lovingly declares: 'Mary, my Mother and your Mother, Has given me her name.'
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St Teresa of the Andes admitted in her journal in 1917 that she felt drawn to “the rigors of penance;” she added, “I feel a longing to be a martyr in my body.”
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Pauline Martin understood the simplicity of her sister, Thérèse. Recalling this, Pauline counsels, “We must not complicate our spiritual life. Did the Blessed Virgin lead a complicated life at Nazareth?”
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Père Jacques de Jésus describes Jesus the Good Shepherd as one who “continuously offers himself to us as both victim and savior… his sole concern is redemption, regardless of its demands on him.”
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