Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
Love was a frequent theme in the life of St Joachina de Vedruna. In these sayings of the saint, one can see why she urged her Sisters on to practice "love, love, and more love, that never says, 'that's enough'."
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In his “Testament of a Loving Father,” St. Kuriakos Elias Chavara dispenses saintly, homespun wisdom for the renewal of Christian families. “Tell me who your friends are,” he writes, “I will tell you who you are.”
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Father Quang D. Tran, S.J. leads our meditations this year on the theme of the night that guides our footsteps better than light and is brighter than the dawn: the night that gives sight.
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"Especially during Lent try to have periods of solitude, silence, and recollection alone with Jesus in the desert. Minister to him with the angels, work for him after the example of St. Joseph in the home of Nazareth..."
Merry Christmas greetings from Carmelite Quotes: May the peace of Christ come to dwell within your hearts this Christmas
In our 2021 Novena to Saint John of the Cross, we will journey along the path of self-denial and love of the cross as he did with one goal in mind: to grow in the union of love with God who is Love.
Read the story of how St. Elizabeth of the Trinity was originally destined to enter the Carmel of Paray-le-Monial
"My child, the hour of my death has come."
I asked Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus to write down what I called “her little way of trust and love”
"Oh! I would not want to suffer for a shorter time!"
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Albert, called by God's favor to be patriarch of the church of Jerusalem
Since that first embrace, Jesus did not let me go
Compared to the hell of the ships, the island seemed a veritable paradise
As I began to read the Confessions, it seemed to me I saw myself in them
A visible sensory image of the glowing love that pierced her heart
On St. Bartholomew's day the habit was received by some and the Blessed Sacrament was reserved
I sacrifice my days of suffering for my parish... with God's help I hope to persevere
So that they can find in the captivity of their bodies, freedom for their soul
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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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