August 26
Bl. Jacques Retouret was born at Limoges in France on 15th September 1746 to a merchant family. He was a serious young man, a lover of books and greatly gifted.
At fifteen years of age, he entered the Carmelite house in his native city. After ordination, his zeal and learning were widely admired and large crowds of people were attracted by his way of preaching.
Unfortunately, he was often...
August 20
Häfner was born in Würzburg in 1900. From the time he was an altar boy, he was very close to the Carmelite nuns in Würzburg, where he joined the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites (OCDS), taking the name of Aloysius of the Most Blessed Sacrament.
He sang his first Mass on 21st April 1924, having been ordained on 13th April of the same year.
After having carried out pastoral...
Birthday to Heaven: August 24, 1942
Anita Cantieri was born in Lucca, Italy, March 30, 1910, and died August 24, 1942, about the same age as her Lord. Her life was one of innocence, love and suffering. She attained an extraordinary spiritual beauty. Anita was greatly loved in life and now she is prayed to by countless people. The Holy See has accepted her as a candidate for sainthood.
Anita...
Bl. Isidore Bakanja, a member of the Boangi tribe, was born in Bokendela (Congo) between 1880 and 1890. In order to survive, even as a boy, he had to work as bricklayer or in farms. He was converted to Christianity in 1906. He was working in a plantation run by a colonialist in Ikili and was forbidden by the owner to spread Christianity among his fellow-workers. On 22 April 1909, the superintendent...
Martyr (Co-Patroness of Europe)
St. Edith Stein was born into a Jewish family at Breslau on 12th October 1891. Through her passionate study of philosophy she searched after truth and found it in reading the autobiography of St. Teresa of Jesus.
In 1922 she was baptized a Catholic and in 1933 she entered the Carmel of Cologne where she took the name of Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. She was gassed...
Legends are a type of folklore that are not strictly historical but still express the basic simple faith of generations. Here are the history and some legends of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Elijah. Very enlightening.
Scripture :
I Kings 18:42b-45a
42b Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, crouched down to the earth, and
put his head between his knees.
43 "Climb up and look out to sea,"...
Great elephants, little pygmies, precious diamonds and the love of the missionaries.
Sometime during the Creation – shall we say around the fifth or sixth day? – God was passing the intersection of the 2nd Parallel North and the 16th Meridian East. I know of course that at that time the global reference points had not yet been quite so closely defined. And the Good Lord certainly didn’t...
Id-Definitur Ġenerali bħalissa qiegħed Malta għaż-żjara fraterna li s-Superjuri tagħna jagħmlu dan is-servizz allanqas darba kull sitt snin
Id-Definitur huwa Patri Daniel Chowing, Amerikan. Hu Patri dħuli u għandu ħafna esperjenza specjalment fil-formazzjoni. http://www.ocdmonline.org/fr-daniel-chowning-iv-definitor/
Huwa beda ż-żjara tieghu billi qatta’ erba’ t’ijiem...
Carmelite
Maria Crocifissa Curcio was born in Ispica (Province of Ragusa) on January 30, 1877, and given the name Rosa. In 1890, she received permission to join the Carmelite Third Order and took the name Sr. Maria Crocifissa. Through her reading of the life of St. Teresa of Jesus, she understood the plan of God that she called to make Carmel flourish in her country as well as many others.
She...
Perhaps we do not realize the amount of Carmelite Saints ... Just have a look at these two brothers and a sister who found their sanctity in Carmel. All three have their feast days in June....
Blessed Hilarion (Hilary) Januszewski, Priest and Martyr
Hilary Januszewski was born on 11 June 1907 in Krajenki (Poland) and was given the name of Pawel. He received a Christian education from his parents,...
