Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
"I offer you everything" is the motto of Blessed Chiquitunga, and with these words she begins her prayer for an increase in fervor and union with Jesus in the holy sacrifice of the Mass. We recall her birth on 12 January 1925 in Villarrica, Paraguay and revisit her beatification in video and images.
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“In sum, Sisters, what I conclude with is that we shouldn't build castles in the air,” St. Teresa writes in the final chapter of the Interior Castle. “The Lord doesn't look so much at the greatness of our works as at the love with which they are done.”
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On the feast day of the male religious who died in the Spanish Revolution in the 1930s, we recall St Teresa's counsel from the Way of Perfection: "It is clear that if someone is a true religious or a true person of prayer and aims to enjoy the delights of God, he must not turn his back upon the desire to die for God and suffer martyrdom."
I saw clearly that a soul which sanctifies itself becomes fruitful in attracting souls to God.
What concrete results can the widow's two small coins produce?
We must work gently and lovingly with God, asking him to accept our work
This indwelling of God in the soul of the just explains to us the extraordinary deeds in the lives of the saints
A little victim of love can't think that what her Spouse sends her out of love is awful
My own good is undoubtedly to suffer
Remember the heroic and joyful fidelity with which they glorified you
You offered Him the cries of the multitude kneeling before your altar
My soul was united very profoundly, I assure you, to the divine joys which flooded yours in those two great days of your ordination and first Mass [28–29 May 1904]. I would have wished that this brief note, which tells you of my entire union with you, might have reached you sooner; that wasn't possible... Continue Reading →
O Emmanuel: ofreciendo a Jesús, tu Hijo, el Emmanuel a fin de la justicia de su Padre aplacar
Blessed be he who arranges everything for our good!
Love of my God, my soul searches for You alone
Let thy blade cut, completing all my offering!
The refugees assembled for the daily prayers in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Give yourself to God!
It's the least we can do.
Discalced Carmelite martyr of the Spanish Civil war who was executed on 15th August 1936. "Blessed be he who arranges everything for our good! In possessing him, we possess everything."
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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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