Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
Light of Christ for all the Church in Chile: this is Sister Teresa of the Andes, Teresa de Jesús, a Discalced Carmelite nun and the first fruits of holiness of the Teresian Carmel in Latin America
I do not hear his voice. Nothing. Darkness.
I am reading Elizabeth of the Holy Trinity. I love her. I want to live a life of Heaven, as Elizabeth says
John of the Cross, with his own experience, invites us to trust, to let ourselves be purified by God
Read the story of how St. Elizabeth of the Trinity was originally destined to enter the Carmel of Paray-le-Monial
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!"
Don’t think that when I’m in Heaven I’ll make your life easy
How do I die? I will never know how to die!
What do death and life mean to me? Jesus, my joy is to love you!
Earthly air is missing, when will the good Lord give me heavenly air?
My only joy on this earth is to be able to make you rejoice
The manifold Wisdom of God sometimes reveals itself more manifestly to certain beloved disciples of Christ
I like Lourdes water better, it's more pious
If sometimes I shed tears my joy is to hide them well
See, that's an image of me, my life is hanging on by a tiny thread.
My joy is to remain little So when I fall down along the way I can get up very quickly
A little victim of love can't think that what her Spouse sends her out of love is awful
My joy, it's the Holy Will of Jesus my only love
My own good is undoubtedly to suffer
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