Today, April 1, is the commemoration of Blessed Anacleto González Flores. Anacleto was born in 1888 to a poor family in Jalisco, Mexico. He was recommended by a local priest, a family friend, to enter the seminary. The priest was impressed by his intelligence. Although a standout student, Anacleto realized that he did not have …
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Today, January 28, is the memorial of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Doctor of the Church. Thomas Aquinas was born in their family’s castle in Roccasecca, Central Italy in 1225. His family was the very wealthy and most powerful of the time. He went to the famed Benedictine monastery Monte Cassino where his uncle Sinibald was the …
Christmas Message from the Prior Provincial and Council Beloved brothers and sisters in Carmel: Thanks be to God, we have been able to live through another year and look forward to welcoming a new one very soon. The gift of life is undoubtedly precious, but perhaps we have not cherished and valued this gift as …
Message from the prior provincial and council “All that we desire and all that we wish to be today was fulfilled in the lives of the Prophet Elijah and of the Blessed Virgin Mary.” (2019 Carmelite Constitutions #25) As the spiritual founder and patron of Carmelites, the Prophet Elijah was the embodiment of a true …
Today, June 14, is the memorial of Saint Elisha the Prophet. Carmelite and prophet. “Elisha came to Elijah, who threw his cloak over him and he, abandoned the oxen, followed Elijah and became his servant” (1 K 19, 19. 21). Elijah received the spirit of Elisha and, among the many outstanding prodigies, he cured Naaman …
Today, May 7, is the memorial of Saint Rosa Venerini. Foundress of the Maestre Pie Venerini (MPV) or the Venerini Sisters. Following the deaths of her fiancé and her father, Rosa entered a period of intense discernment. Exactly what was God trying to tell her? Rosa invited neighborhood women to pray the rosary in her …
Today, February 12, is the memorial of Saint Eulalia of Barcelona. Born in the year 290, Eulalia came from a noble family and openly declared her Christian faith. In the era of the Emperor Diocletian, Christians were ordered to be killed. His governor Dacian arrived in Barcelona with the same agenda. This angered Eulalia so …
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 …
Today, February 6, is the memorial of Saint Pedro Bautista, Saint Paul Miki & Companion-Martyrs. Pedro Bautista born in Spain in 1542. He was a Franciscan missionary in the Philippines who became the first bishop of the diocese of Nueva Caceres (Camarines Sur). In 1586 he became the parish priest of Lumban, Laguna. He also …
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Today, February 3, is the memorial of Saint Blaise. Patron saint of people with throat and respiratory problems. Blaise was said to have been born in what is now Turkey. His Acts narrate that he lived in a cave on Mount Argeus. He became popular as a physician of both men and animals. It was …