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On 20 February 1263, Pope Urban IV published the bull, "Quoniam ut ait," which is one of the first documents that mention "the Order of the Blessed Mary of Mount Carmel in the Holy Land." We explore this Marian identity in today’s Constitutions of the Discalced Carmelite Friars.
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After the forced departure of Cardinal Soffredo as Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, the Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre, supported by King Aimery of Lusignan, elected St. Albert Avogadro as their Patriarch on 17 February 1205. Pope Innocent III ratified the appointment, begging St. Albert to accept the election: “although you are very necessary to us in Lombardy, we completely trust you to represent us in the most difficult matters.”
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Discalced Carmelite historian Peter-Thomas Rohrbach shows us how our First Reading for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) fits within the Carmelite legend of Elijah and Elisha and the Carmelite tradition, which indicates that we have inherited their double spirit.
On 18 May 1291 the Crusader stronghold of Acre fell after weeks of siege. We remember the Carmelite martyrs who perished in Acre and in the weeks that followed.
Saint Edith Stein writes, "The legend of the Order tells us that the Mother of God would have liked to remain with the hermit brothers on Mount Carmel. We can certainly understand that she felt drawn to the place where she had been venerated through the ages..."
Pope Innocent III, on the 17th of February 1205, gave St. Albert of Jerusalem a pressing invitation to accept his postulation as Patriarch of Jerusalem, made by the canons of the Holy Sepulchre, by the suffragan bishops and by the King of Jerusalem, Almaricus II of Lusignano. On account of the esteem he had for Albert, the Pope appointed him Legate for the Holy Land, as well.
On the first Sunday after Easter 1919, the statue of the Madonna was brought back from the parish-church in Haifa, with great solemnity and in the midst of public rejoicings.
Elijah stands before God’s face because all of his love belongs to the Lord. He lives outside all natural human relationships.
Ambrosius of St. Arsenius, the first Carmelite to die on Mount Carmel in a letter to his General (1634), he tells how he saw the very first church in the world erected in honour of the Mother of God. Behind the altar was the cave where Elijah hid...
On 18 May 1291 the Crusader stronghold of Acre fell after weeks of siege. We remember the Carmelite martyrs who perished that day.
Scripture presents Elijah as a man of crystalline faith
Albert, called by God's favor to be patriarch of the church of Jerusalem
St. Albert of Jerusalem wrote a Rule for the hermit brothers on Mt Carmel
Elijah, the prophets and conversion of heart: Elijah is the "father" of the prophets
All of the Carmelites proclaim Elijah to be their guide and father
ZELO ZELATUS SUM PRO DOMINO DEO EXERCITUUM: I have been most zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts
All of us who wear this holy habit of Carmel are called to prayer and contemplation
Mary’s sisterhood is an insight that can be shared with the wider Church
They tarried long in the solitude of the desert
We are your children and your people
!["[Perfect love] will be our eternal life, and here we have to seek to come as close to it as possible. Jesus became incarnate in order to be our way."](https://scontent-iad3-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/338273479_3403408046565587_3161977190221199289_n.webp?stp=dst-jpg&_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=2RFDkB20o3EAX-8WKdJ&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-2.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=00_AfAMeUCAfYpdpXqrP30CynE8ybfx8G-woQSmQ_m_wKPXrA&oe=642E2A0B)
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