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St Mary Magdalen de’ Pazzi was half a century younger than St Teresa, yet Mary Magdalen was drawn to the same love of poverty. Read about her 1587 call to wear a patched habit and remove her shoes.
Saint Teresa of the Andes entered the Carmel of the Holy Spirit in the township of Los Andes, some 90 kilometers from her home in Santiago de Chile on Wednesday, 7 May 1919. The Prioress said that when Teresa bade farewell to her oldest sister, she said, "Until heaven! Life is so short!"
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Scripture says, “there were some who pleased God and were loved by him.” St. Thérèse places these words in the mouth of St. Joseph: if you knew how to grasp the truth that Mary reveals, “you would seek only what would make your soul pleasing to God.”
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St. Thérèse writes, "happiness does not consist in having wealth but in humbly submitting your will to that of God." Scripture affirms that for "the man who fears the Lord, whether rich or poor, his heart is content."
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As Thomas Merton discerned his vocation in 1941, he wrote in his journal on 4 November, “Saint Therese of Lisieux, pray for me that I may refuse my God nothing…”
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On 28 November 1568, the Discalced Carmelite friars began their new life in Duruelo. St Teresa wrote: “the first Mass was said in that little stable of Bethlehem, for it doesn't seem to me the house was any better.”
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In St. Teresa’s letter on this day in 1577, her compassion toward her sister Juana’s family in their financial need is evident; she wishes that she could help them. “Oh, what a trial these restraints of our poverty are!”
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St. Teresa’s testimony of her personal growth in love and compassion reminds us that all our striving for perfection comes down to this: loving others with God’s love. Thanks for joining our novena!
St. Titus Brandsma’s commitment to the vow of poverty in solidarity with the poor was unshakeable. He wrote, “Without poverty, a religious is a Pharisee, a gentleman of ease pretending to be a poor man.” And in his conferences he taught, “Giving alms is our way of life.”
Carmelite scholar Father François de Sainte-Marie shares several gems of wisdom from Blessed John Soreth concerning the Carmelite Rule. Here's one example" "Do you want to get to heaven? Embrace the baseness of poverty and it will be yours..."
Saint Teresa of the Andes entered the Carmel of the Holy Spirit in the township of Los Andes, some 90 kilometers from her home in Santiago de Chile on Wednesday, 7 May 1919. The Prioress said that when Teresa said farewell to her oldest sister, she said, "Until heaven! Life is so short!"
"What pleases him is to see me love my littleness and my poverty... That's my only treasure..."
As St. Clare said, great walls are those of poverty. She said that it was with walls like these, and those of humility, that she wanted to enclose her monasteries.
It is our anxiety that creates our needs; cast your care on the Lord, daughter, and he will sustain you
Consecrated life is a style or way of living Christian life
Mary rejoices because she is the bearer of Emmanuel, of ‘God with us’
She lives with joy because she trusts totally in the Lord
I saw the tears upon the Virgin's face
It was a feast such as the Cologne Carmel has never seen
I understood that I had a great obligation to serve our Lady and St. Joseph
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