Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
For the feast day of her prioress in 1902, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity wrote: "Infinite Being! Depth unsoundable! Delighted, lost in Your Divinity — O Trinity, God thrice-immutable, We see Yourself in Your own clarity."
Frei Belchior de Santa Ana describes how pious recreations that prepared St Teresa's nuns for martyrdom became part of the tradition at the new monastery of San Alberto in Lisbon. But they nearly became a rehearsal for reality on 9 May 1585 when the English Armada attacked the city.
On St. Gregory Nazianzen's Day, May 9 they vowed not to leave
O Radix Jesse: Pobre niña, Te prometemos que te entregaremos... Por el Señor!
You do a great injury to God in believing you're going to Purgatory. When we love, we can't go there.
I weave a crown from wildflowers; I give it to Mary
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