“But the school of Carmel warns us, in its leading figures, even in the Prophet Elias, that we must never forget the great importance of the intellectual foundation of the contemplative life: the enlightenment of the mind, the exercise of all mental faculties. By the imaginative and intellectual meditation and contemplation we have to climb […]
Creating an encounter with Christ for 72 years On this day in 1950, Fr. Marcel Roussel Galle founded the Missionary Workers of the Immaculate, starting what is now called the Society of Apostolic Life Donum Dei. They were affiliated to the Carmelite Order on February 22, 1987. They arrived in the Philippines in 1981 and,
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Today, February 11, is the memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes. This day commemorates the 18 apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Saint Bernadette Soubirous that occurred between 11 February and 16 July of 1858 near the town of Lourdes in the Hautes-Pyrenees region of France.
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Jesus left the district of Tyreand went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee,into the district of the Decapolis.And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impedimentand begged him to lay his hand on him.He took him off by himself away from the crowd.He put his finger into the
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On this day in 1982, the Carmelite Sisters of Our Lady (Carm.O.L.) was formed with Sr. Mary Rose B. Deloria, Carm.O.L. and Sr. Linda Anthony M. Nadela, Carm.O.L., guided and supported by their canonical founder, Bp. Epifanio B. Surban, D.D. of the Diocese of Dumaguete City. They were joined by Sr. Flor Pauline L. Duran,
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“While the schools of St. Bernard and St. Francis are schools of love, seraphic love, and the Dominican, intellectual, the school of Carmel achieves a happy mean, a harmony of both. Surely those who dwell in Carmel would have caught from the flame a spark of the love and zeal which burned in the great
Today, February 10, is the memorial of Saint Scholastica. Twin sister of Saint Benedict. St. Gregory the Great wrote in the “Dialogues” that Scholastica was born to the Italian nobility in the year 480 in Umbria, Italy. As a young lady, Scholastica had consecrated herself to God. It was her habit to visit Benedict
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Jesus went to the district of Tyre.He entered a house and wanted no one to know about it,but he could not escape notice.Soon a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him.She came and fell at his feet.The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth,and she begged him to drive the demon
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“Finally, we must note the providential combination of the two great visions of the Prophet on Carmel and on Horeb. These two visions are intimately connected. The last is the crown of the first and supplies what was not yet given in the first. While we admire Elias as he soars aloft in contemplation on
Today, February 9, is the memorial of Saint Miguel Febres Cordero. Born Francisco Luis Febres-Cordero y Muñoz in Ecuador in 1854, he was born with the inability to stand or walk. At age five, he saw the Blessed Virgin Mary in a vision and was afterwards cured. At age eight he was miraculously protected from
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