Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
Blessed Anne of St. Bartholomew describes her experiences as Prioress in Paris in the year 1605. She tells us that four professed religious and two novices left Paris to found a new Discalced Carmelite monastery in Amiens on Pentecost. There was a Pontifical Mass and the Bishop had the head of St. John the Baptist carried in procession!
Here is a small bird cast as John the Baptist who from my treetops is inspired to say: I come from heaven to prepare the way.
This is what the birth of John the Baptist announces: just as from the womb of Elizabeth a creature is born, the Lord can bring forth life from a story of darkness and death.
This is the badge of the friends of the Man of Sorrows: the mark of the cross, faint replica of His
My brother died the Sunday after the feast of St. John
Isn't all this talk of repentance and sins meant for Lent?
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