🔥 “I love you, Jesus—save souls!”
Blessed Mary Josephine of Jesus Crucified prayed that her life become a hymn of love to God’s will and an offering for the salvation of souls. She died on this day, March 14, 1948, in the Carmel of Naples.
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🕯️ “Now is the time to prostrate ourselves before the Lord and adore him.”
Reflecting on the Gospel of the man born blind, Bishop Silvio José Báez reminds us that Christ gives light even in the darkness.
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Bishop Silvio José Báez reflects on the man born blind: even in darkness, Christ gives the light of faith.
🔥 During the French Revolution, cloistered nuns were ordered to abandon their vows. Many refused.
In Quod aliquantum (1791), Pope Pius VI defended the vows of women religious and praised their courage.
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fwiw Saint Raphael's unemployment was non-voluntary. His letter excerpt in the carmelitequotes.blog QOTD post was written after his release from a Siberian forced labor camp. He admitted, "I am very stressed and today I started to look for an occupation which could engage all the hours of my day."
🟣 Saint Raphael Kalinowski warned that idleness is harmful to the interior life.
Before entering Carmel, he longed for a disciplined life ordered toward God and purity of heart.
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Saint Raphael Kalinowski seeks a disciplined life and entrusts himself to Saint Joseph.
😲 amazing!
A school shooting with even 1 innocent victim is tragic & horrific.
A school BOMBING with 150+ innocent victims is beyond conventional moral characterisation.
Nobody held accountable.
Not Trump.
Not Netanyahu.
Not Hegseth.
Nobody.
May God’s justice have final word. 🙏
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Why did Disrespectful Donald refuse (or forget) to remove his ballcap? @pxmolina.bsky.social has the answer!
Gift link:
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⚔️ The Carmelite Rule reminds us that the Christian life is lived in vigilance. Saint Albert of Jerusalem calls believers to clothe themselves with spiritual armor: faith, holiness, meditation on God’s word, and love of God and neighbor.
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🌹 As we approach the anniversary of Pope Francis’s election to the papacy (13 March 2013), we revisit his reflection on Saint Thérèse’s “little way,” the path of trust and love open to every soul.
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This is not the answer, either:
“We must conquer territory in southern Lebanon, destroy the villages there, and annex the territory to the State of Israel.”
Don't let Israel turn Southern Lebanon into another uninhabitable wasteland with countless dead civilians.
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Pope Francis reflects on Saint Thérèse’s “little way,” the path of trust in God’s merciful love.
Amazing as always!
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🌅 God will never abandon the one he loves.
On the anniversary of his first profession, Blessed Marie-Eugène reminds us that the love that created us is the love that sustains us and leads us to eternity.
Read today’s reflection:
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🕯️ On this day in 1942, Saint Titus Brandsma arrived at the concentration camp at Amersfoort. New prisoners were forced to stand for hours in the freezing wind as guards barked orders—a ritual designed to humiliate and break them.
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My favorite Carmelite saint
On this day in 1942, Saint Titus Brandsma arrived at Amersfoort, where new prisoners faced brutal humiliation.
🔥 The world is in flames.
In 1939, as war began in Europe, Saint Edith Stein wrote this meditation for the renewal of vows at the Carmel of Echt. She points to the Cross that no fire can destroy.
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🟤 Distractions in prayer can seize the mind unexpectedly. Saint Teresa of Avila describes this struggle. Blessed Marie-Eugène reflects on it.
Today we recall the anniversary of his first profession.
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We recall the anniversary of Blessed Marie-Eugène’s first profession and his thoughts on distractions in prayer.
🌿 For generations, Carmelites have turned to Saint Joseph as father, protector, and guide. This new compendium gathers five years of Saint Joseph novenas drawn from Scripture and the writings of Carmelite saints.
Pray with Carmel.
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❤️ What the heart sees—and what it must renounce.
Saint John of the Cross warns that even when we seem to perceive the interior of others, we must distrust such knowledge and remain humble.
The saints teach: leave hidden things to God.
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🌼 On the anniversary of her death, we remember Venerable María Antonia of Jesus (1700–1760), founder of the Carmel of Santiago de Compostela. She teaches that prayer is the water that nourishes the virtues in the garden of the soul.
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Five years of Saint Joseph novenas from Carmelite saints—prayer, Scripture, and reflection.
On the anniversary of her death, we recall Venerable María Antonia: prayer nourishes the virtues.
💧 Saint Teresa of Ávila loved the Gospel scene of Jesus and the Samaritan woman. As a child, she carried an image of the well and prayed: “Lord, give me this water.” Bishop Silvio José Báez, OCD, reflects on prayer as the living water Christ offers.
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