Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
"Mary, whom we invoke today under the title of the Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel... had the mission of engendering in time the eternal Son of God. In her, the maternal vocation reached the peak of its dignity and potential."
St. Edith Stein indicates that there is an inexhaustible source of power for women who are tested beyond their "strength of body and nerves", and "it depends only on knowing one's way and going to this source again and again."
I see that God does grant the prayers of His Carmelites since baby and mama are doing so well... I’m sure Saint Joseph will finish his work and you’ll be able to nurse your little darling.
In God's new kingdom, the role of the human couple has changed; it has become a relationship of mother and son
The image of the Mother of God demonstrates the basic spiritual attitude which corresponds to woman’s natural vocation
She positively believed that the good Lord couldn't do anything to her if she was in her mother's arms
Read the story of how St. Elizabeth of the Trinity was originally destined to enter the Carmel of Paray-le-Monial
Thursday the wet nurse brought little Thérèse. She did nothing but laugh
I am the little mama of your soul
What is, then, the great sickness of our time and of our people?
She bore much that was painful and did much that was good
The mother must keep pure the atmosphere in which the child is living
That is the life of your Carmelite; she sees infinite horizons unfold
“We went to Mass, and she didn’t come back.” - Mme. Catez
O deign to place us all within thy breast!
I have found favor with this sovereign Virgin in everything I have asked of her
“To think that all her daughters became Carmelites! Can a mother have any greater honor?”
Mary had learned to listen to the heartbeat of her Son
The wet nurse brought our little Thérèse today
Père Jacques of Jesus offers this meditation on the virginity and maternity of Mary
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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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