Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
We recall the death of Venerable Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament on 26 May 1648. Her devotion to the "Little King of Grace" and his statue in the Carmel of Beaune inspired her unshakeable trust in the Infant Jesus.
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Bishop Silvio José Báez, ocd reminds us, “only the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, can make us walk in the truth. The Spirit is the living memory of Jesus in our hearts.”
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Blessed Baptist Spagnoli, whose feastday we observe today, says "the reading of sacred scripture is a great and powerful remedy against bodily suffering and depression of mind." Why is this so? "It comes from First Truth."
Today once again we read St. Edith Stein's powerful words, "God is truth," written on 23 March 1938. She adds that God's mercy can't be contained by the boundaries of the "visible Church."
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On 2 February 1922 St. Edith Stein received the Sacrament of Confirmation. Here we read the recollections of her novice mistress, with added commentary by scholar, translator, and editor Father John Sullivan, O.C.D.
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St. John of the Cross echoes the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas at several points in his writings. In discussing revelation in Book II of the Ascent of Mount Carmel, John adheres closely to Thomistic teaching in the Summa Theologiae.
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Bishop Silvio José Báez reminds us that goodness, truth, justice, and non-violence are like the mustard seeds of the Kingdom of God. Nothing can stand in the way of their growth.
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Edith Stein was canonized in Rome on 11 October 1998. In this blog post we share excerpts from the homily of St John Paul II and images that reflect her life and mission.
Preaching in 1864 in Malines, Belgium on Catholicism in England, the Servant of God Hermann Cohen boldly spoke out against the so-called "progress" of the secularization he witnessed in England. "The great obstacle to progress is that the Master has been excluded from all Laws, Constitutions, and Governments..."
Upon the death of a lay sister in the Carmel of Cologne, St. Edith Stein wrote to a friend that she was not worried about her "Master" Edmund Husserl, who was seriously ill and, in fact, would die one month later. Edith had one, straightforward reason not to worry: "It has always been far from me to think that God's mercy allows itself to be circumscribed by the visible church's boundaries. God is truth"
St. Edith Stein the philosopher introduces us to the basic "dilemma of all human philosophizing: truth is but one, yet for us in falls into truths (plural) that we must master step by step." Sooner or later, she says, we have to dive in.
Come Holy Spirit. [...] Come, you who, descending into Mary, caused the Word to take flesh: effect in us by grace what you accomplished in her by grace and nature.
"I would desire all fears so as not to offend for an instant Him who in an instant can annihilate us, because it pleases His Majesty that there be no one against us whom He will not put to flight."
Commenting on the Gospel story of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery, Fr. Denis-Marie Ghesquières, OCD writes, "Jesus challenges each one of the onlookers to search his heart and, faced with the woman's sin, to question himself! A new path can open up by setting out from the truth about oneself in the presence of Jesus..."
Let theologians learn from Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity to make use of the truths of dogma in order to be recollected in God
Faith doesn't lead us to sacrifice our reason; on the contrary, the experience of God elevates it—making it noble, unconstrained, and worthy.
Because God is truth and because he wants to be found by those who seek him with their whole hearts, sooner or later the star had to appear to show these wise men the way to truth. And so they now stand before the Incarnate Truth...
Any attempt to arrive at a mysticism without dogma is contrary to the doctrine of Saint John of the Cross and to the very nature of contemplation.
When the Church sees that many people are distancing themselves and attacking Her, the Church never experiences the bitterness of resentment or the evil power of revenge; She always acts with gentleness and mercy
Those who do not relish this language God speaks within them must not think on this account that others do not taste it. St. Peter tasted it in his soul when he said to Christ: Lord, where shall we go?
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