In her diamond castle of the soul, St. Teresa places the sun as a source of light
Quote of the day: 27 July
Quote of the day: 5 June
Madame Acarie was beatified 5 June 1791 in Rome
Quote of the day: 22 September
Magdalen, first to drink the fountained Christ
Quote of the day: 15 June
Let us live with God as with a friend
On Palm Sunday
I want my blood to be beneficial to you
Quote of the day: 2 April
The appointed time has come... for the renewal of His spouse, the Church
14 December: St. John of the Cross
16th c. Spanish co-founder of the Discalced Carmelite friars
Action and Contemplation: Beginning to Pray Blog
The greatest mystics never saw a tension between apostolic service and contemplative prayer -- for them, it would be impossible to have one without the other. How is it that these prayerful people did more than those who feel they are too busy for prayer?
Night is the necessary cosmic expression of St. John of the Cross’s mystical world-view.
Elijah got up, ate and drank, and the food gave him enough strength to walk forty days to Sinai, the holy mountain. (1 Kings 19:8)
St. Edith Stein Novena – Day 4
She had already known when she moved to her “Nazareth” that her aim was the “desert” of Carmel
July 27: Blessed Titus Brandsma
"Oh, that this day we might realize the value God has placed on the suffering He sends: He, the All-Good."
The Marie du jour – May 20
Mary was immersed in the ocean of God’s being
Soul of silence
A praise of glory is a soul of silence
Consuming Fire
O Consuming Fire, Spirit of Love, descend into my soul and make all in me as an incarnation of the Word, that I may be to him a super-added humanity wherein he renews his mystery Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity
The Marie du jour – May 3
Avila, Incarnation, Jan. 19, 1572 St. Teresa's vision of our Lady in the choir of the Incarnation 1. On the eve of the feast of St. Sebastian, the first year in which I was prioress at the Incarnation, at the beginning of the Salve Regina, I saw the Mother of God descend with a great... Continue Reading →
Follow the Lamb
These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. (Revelation 14:4)
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