Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
“At the feet of Mary, I found life again” is the recurring theme in this meditation by St. Mary of Jesus Crucified. “You who say that I’m an orphan, see: I have a Mother in the heights of heaven.”
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Bishop Silvio José Báez teaches us how the Virgin Mary is a tender mother to all of us, just as she was a tender mother to Jesus. Let these words from the bishop inspire you to love her more!
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Père Jacques de Jésus describes the awesome mystery of Holy Communion: "When you receive him, you are like the Virgin Mary during the months she carried her child. You truly carry Christ within you."
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The Servant of God Sister Maria Lucia spread Marian devotion as often as she could; here we read how she saved two children swept out to sea, giving credit to Our Lady for their rescue.
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What does the Bible mean when it says to lift up your heads? Bishop Silvio Báez, OCD explains that the Virgin Mary teaches us the meaning: "being able to talk to God" in "a gesture of humility."
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St. Thérèse of Lisieux maintained tremendous trust in the guidance of her Guardian Angel and the Blessed Virgin. Thérèse’s dramatic character, St. Joan of Arc, pleaded, “tell me what I must do!”
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Père Jacques, preaching to the nuns at the Carmel of Pontoise, exalts the virginity of the Mother of God: “This characteristic is one of the crown jewels of Mary’s divine motherhood.”
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St. Elizabeth of the Trinity is fascinated by the Virgin’s solitary contemplation: “In what silence, what recollection, what adoration she must have been wrapped in the depth of her soul.”
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St. Edith Stein penned a heartfelt poem when her sister Rosa was baptized. In it, Rosa lovingly declares: 'Mary, my Mother and your Mother, Has given me her name.'
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Pauline Martin understood the simplicity of her sister, Thérèse. Recalling this, Pauline counsels, “We must not complicate our spiritual life. Did the Blessed Virgin lead a complicated life at Nazareth?”
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St. Thérèse of Lisieux begins our annual Marie du jour feature with an excerpt from her play, “The Mission of Joan of Arc.” Joan's tribute to the Virgin: “I weave a crown from wildflowers…”
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St. Edith Stein contemplates the link between silence and the Annunciation of the Lord: "The decision for the Redemption was conceived in the eternal silence of the inner divine life."
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Scripture says, “there were some who pleased God and were loved by him.” St. Thérèse places these words in the mouth of St. Joseph: if you knew how to grasp the truth that Mary reveals, “you would seek only what would make your soul pleasing to God.”
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When Jacob awoke from his dream at Bethel, he said: “Surely the Lord is in this place—and I did not know it!” St. Joseph says to us as well, “If you knew the name!...”
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"The Lord knows the days of the blameless," scripture says. St. Thérèse of Lisieux suggests that blameless and humble St. Joseph found it difficult to accept that he was "in charge of transmitting the orders of Heaven" to the Mother of his God.
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In a beautiful prayer, St. Henry de Ósso praises and honors the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Immaculate Conception, the "Queen, Lady, Protectress and ornament of the whole Catholic Church."
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On this Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Père Jacques speaks of the Virgin's silence: "she had so well absorbed the message of God that even St. Joseph was unaware."
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St. John of the Cross describes the birth of Christ and the amazement of his “gracious Mother” who “gazed in sheer wonder” to see “in God, man's weeping, and in man, gladness.”
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