Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
Since man's life on earth is a time of trial, and all who would live devotedly in Christ must undergo persecution, and the devil your foe is on the prowl like a roaring lion looking for prey to devour...
You must use every care to clothe yourselves in God's armour so that you may be ready to withstand the enemy's ambush.
Each one of you is to stay in his own cell or nearby, pondering the Lord's law day and night
St. Albert of Jerusalem wrote a Rule for the hermit brothers on Mt Carmel
Since man's life on earth is a time of trial, and all who would live devotedly in Christ must undergo persecution...
On 18 May 1291 the Crusader stronghold of Acre fell after weeks of siege. We remember the Carmelite martyrs who perished that day.
Albert, called by God's favor to be patriarch of the church of Jerusalem
Your are to fast every day, except Sundays, from the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
You must use every care to clothe yourselves in God's armour
St. Albert of Jerusalem wrote a Rule for the hermit brothers on Mt Carmel
Albert, called by God's favor to be patriarch of the church of Jerusalem
St. Albert of Jerusalem wrote a Rule for the hermit brothers on Mt Carmel
Will Your Reverence allow me to offer myself to the Heart of Jesus
Whoever has a mind to become a leader among you must make himself servant to the rest
Gregory IX frees the Carmelites from property to focus on prayer
It is to me, however, that you have come for a rule of life
We enjoin you and your successors to observe in the future the rule which was given to you...
Blessing to B. and the other hermits who live near the spring on Mount Carmel
St. Albert of Jerusalem was the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem at the beginning of the 13th c. who formed the hermit brothers of Mount Carmel into a collegium and wrote a Rule for them
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