On Wednesday April 17 is the optional memorial of Bl. Baptist Spagnoli of Mantua, priest
Baptist was born on 17th April 1447 to a family of civil servants to the Dukes of Mantua. Heentered the Carmelites of the Congregation of Mantua 1 at Ferrara as a young man. While not a poet of genius, he was a superb Latin stylist, imitating Virgil. His eclogues (poems in a classical style on a pastoral...
April 18
OCD:
Optional Memorial
Barbe
Avrillot was born in Paris in 1566. At the age of sixteen she married
Pierre Acarie, by whom she had seven children. In spite of her household
duties and many hardships, she attained the heights of the mystical life.
Under the influence of St. Teresa's writings, and after mystical contact with the Saint herself, she spared no effort in introducing...
Here are some online opportunities to go deeper
into our Carmelite spirituality!
*Number One*
Now our Garden is at this address: http://blesslife.org/ourgarden/
*Number Two*
To see our favorite Carmelite: http://blesslife.org/ourgarden/images/YoungKarolWojtyla.jpg
What is St. John Paul II the Great’s affiliation with the Carmelites?
In a letter to Cardinal Ballestrero OCD dated...
Ktieb tassew interessanti li għadu kif ħareġ huwa l-ktieb ta’ Patri Wistin Vella OCD, Il-Ħabib Sieħeb ta’ Gesu’. Huwa ġabra ta’ meditazzjonijiet fuq l-istil tal-Imitazzjoni ta’ Kristu. L-awtur stess jgħid “huwa ktieb ta’ talb ta’ taħditiet qalb ma’ qalb ma’ l-Imgħallem.”
Il-bniedem, kull bniedem, jkollu jħabbat wiccu l-ħin kollu ma’ ħafna weġgħat u problemi...
Check this resource out
https://youtu.be/RRNPZAVomN4
by Br. John-Mary of Jesus Crucified, OCD
Whether you’ve been praying for many years or if you are just beginning, we all have one thing in common: the need for conversion. Lent is a season specifically set aside by the Church to focus on repentance and conversion. In this episode we explore what the Carmelite tradition has to teach...
Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross is co-patroness of Europe. Before entering Carmel and taking this name, Edith Stein already had a long life as a philosopher and lecturer. Born in Prussia in 1891, a Jew who became agnostic, she undertook a quest for truth through philosophy and the events of her life, until her discovery of Christ.
Baptized at the age of 31, she became a remarkable Catholic...
IMMENSE AND TENDER LOVE
Keep me in the womb of your love
Lord, always keep me in your love like a child is kept safe in his Mother’s womb; there he has no need of anything, neither to eat nor drink; he cannot be harmed by drafts of cold air; he is safe from danger; with his Mother he has everything. And me, too, Lord, if you keep me in your love, I will lack nothing; I desire nothing more...
Rivista prezzjuża anke jekk mhiex magħrufa hija r-rivista li joħorġu l-Patrijiet Tereżjani hawn Malta. Jisimha’ TERESA. Hi rivista dedikata għall-ispiritwalita’.
Niftakar darba wieħed mill-Presidenti ta’ Malta, Dr. Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, jgħidilna lilna l-Patrijiet Tereżjani, li t-tweġiba vera għall-problemi li qed tiffacja s-socjeta’ illum hi l-ispiritwalita’. Kellu raġun....
Fjamma Tereżjana hija fuljett żgħir imma sabiħ li joħroġ Patri Karm darba fix-xahar għaż-żgħażagħ. Diġa qiegħed fil-ħamsa u għoxrin ħarġa u kull ma jmur il-quddiem dejjem jitjieb!
Ikun fih artikli qosra imma profondi. Miktubin fuq stil frisk, għandhom l-iskop li naprezzaw il-ħajja Tereżjana dejjem aktar.
Interessanti ħafna hi l-paġna fuq il-Qaddisin tax-xahar fejn tingħata...
Ras ir-Randan hi data importanti għan-nisrani. Tibda t-tħejjija għal-festa l-kbira tal-Qawmien mill-mewt tal-Mulej tagħna. Ir-rebħa tiegħu fuq il-mewt. Hi din il-ġrajja li tat sens lill-ħajjitna. Ma aħniex ikkundannati biex nitilfu dejjem. Aħna wkoll nistgħu nirbħu!
Għalina t-Tereżjani f’Malta din id-data din is-sena inżergħet ukoll t-tama. Għaliex zewġ żgħażagħ...