Order of Carmelites

Flowers of Carmel

“In the mystical life, this appears as a contradiction of the ideal of the Friars Preachers: Contemplata aliis tradere: which according to the interpretation of St. Thomas represents the highest ideal of the spiritual life, the imparting the fruit of contemplation to others by active life. We must not regard these two ideals as contradictory. Both ways lead to God and from both the faithful derive the greatest graces. These different religious ideals only manifest the more the superabundant variety of the Church’s life.”

Bl. Titus Brandsma

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