Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
In 1915, Titus Brandsma wrote an article that was published in the review 'Karmelrozen' that describes Saturday Marian devotions in Carmelite churches. "Simply by thinking of Mary's help," he wrote, "we feel ourselves strengthened in our weakness."
Titus Brandsma writes to a formator many years later, "You came to my bedside [as a second-year philosophy student] and would not allow me to think about my studies, you wouldn’t even allow me to talk about philosophy... More than a professor, for me you were a father."
From the Scheveningen prison, Titus Brandsma writes: "There was no holy card of the Virgin Mary in my breviary, yet her image is obligatory in the cell of every Carmelite; I had to find a solution for this..."
"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..."
It is as if they carefully expose that monastic garment to their Redeemer
I am quite alright.
I deleted “smoking” from the daily timetable and the day went on
God will have the last word and will reward the faithful servant
Certainly, such heroism cannot be improvised.
Countless have zealously given up their position, their property and even their life
There is no house where one does not wear the garment of Carmel
He proclaimed human dignity and the freedom of the Church, even in the throes of degrading persecution and death
How difficult it is for us
to tolerate an unjust verdict
I am quite all right in my solitude... God is near to me
A inspirational quote from Blessed Titus Brandsma (1881-1942)
Brandsma, a political prisoner, was arrested eight months before Edith Stein
Blessed Titus Brandsma: "Without (poverty) the religious is a Pharisee – a gentleman in the monastery dressed like a poor man, but without a true love for poverty"
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