Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
St. Thérèse explains that during her novitiate she had difficulty during her one-on-one sessions with her novice mistress: "I had never become accustomed to speaking about my soul and I didn’t know how to express what was going on within it."
In the Gospel reading for Third Sunday of Easter, Jesus asks Peter, "do you love me more than these?" Saint Thérèse explains in a letter that she makes Peter's response to Jesus her one and only prayer before the Tabernacle: "My God, you know that I love You."
What a treasure the Lord has given me in allowing me to live in Carmel!
Carmelite spirituality is not contemplative and apostolic. It is apostolic because it is contemplative
Thérèse predicted that after her death, we would never lack “our daily bread”
The Child Jesus wants us to seek Him alone, in simplicity of spirit
all our actions become a kind of brief conversation with God
A brief conversation with God coming from the simplicity and purity of our hearts
The Child Jesus wants us to seek Him alone, in simplicity of spirit
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