Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
St Teresa encourages her nuns to praise God because they "truly belong to our Lady." Teresa urges the nuns to imitate the Virgin, trusting in the merits of Christ and "of the Virgin, His Mother."
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St Teresa of the Andes admitted in her journal in 1917 that she felt drawn to “the rigors of penance;” she added, “I feel a longing to be a martyr in my body.”
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St Mary Magdalen de’ Pazzi was beatified on this day in 1627; we recall one of her many trials and read how she rebuked the devil: “I am with my Jesus, and you can do me no harm.”
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In a beautiful prayer, St. Henry de Ósso praises and honors the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Immaculate Conception, the "Queen, Lady, Protectress and ornament of the whole Catholic Church."
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St. Elizabeth of the Trinity explained to Canon Angles, “I live in thanksgiving.” What a blessed ideal to adopt today and everyday. Read this excerpt from her letter and discover the secret to her attitude of gratitude.
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Saint Teresa’s story of her paralysis in August 1539 and her “attitude of gratitude” to God for the healing she received reminds us of the Samaritan leper who returned to Jesus, glorifying God for his own healing.
Here St. Teresa explains her image of the well-watered garden, irrigated by "the water flowing from a river or spring." She compares the soul's joy to the woman who called her neighbors when she found her lost coin, one of the parables in our Gospel for Sunday, 11 September.
St. Teresa of Avila is overflowing with love and praise as she begins her commentary on the Lord's prayer. "O my Lord, how You do show Yourself to be the Father of such a Son; and how Your Son does show Himself to be the Son of such a Father! May You be blessed forever and ever!"
St. John of the Cross, discussing the kinds of places where God chooses to be "invoked and worshipped", mentions Mount Horeb, "to which he sent our Father Elijah". John goes on to offer spiritual guidance for his readers based on the examples.
In the notes from her first retreat in the Carmel of Los Andes, St. Teresa writes that God "desires me to allow myself to be guided entirely by the Holy Spirit. My life should be a continuous praise of love. I should lose myself in God and always contemplate Him without ever losing sight of Him."
God fills my being to the brim with floods of His immensity. I drown within a drop of Him whose sea-bed is infinity....
We need hours for listening silently and allowing the Word of God to act on us until it moves us to bear fruit in an offering of praise and an offering of action.
Adorable sacrament, blessed spring from which my dry lips can drink the first fruits of eternal life, my heart is filled with joy. I need to bless you and sing your praises in songs of joy and thanksgiving.
O my Hope, my Father, my Creator, and my true Lord and Brother! When I consider how You say that Your delights are with the children of the earth, my soul rejoices greatly.
How could a truly humble person think he is as good as those who are contemplative? Yes, it is true, God can make you a contemplative
Our Lord told me He desires me to allow myself to be guided entirely by the Holy Spirit
...where souls stand before the face of God in solitude and silence in order to be quickening love in the heart of the church.
... uniting myself to the eternal praise that is being sung in the Heaven of the Saints!
Our Lord wants me to let myself be guided entirely by the Holy Spirit
I cannot be broken, tried, except by the just
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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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