CARMELITE SPIRITUALITY

Fr. Greg Homeming, OCD

Homily on the Cross according to Carmelite spirituality

speaks of the cross in the life of St. Therese.

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DISCALCED CARMELITES

Discalced Carmelite Friars

Tanzania Mission

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Carmelite Saint of the Day: St. Raphael Kalinowski, priest

Happy Feast Day to all Carmelites!

Comprehensive website of the saint

St. Raphael was canonized in 1991 by Pope John Paul II.  The first Discalced Carmelite friar canonized since St. John of the Cross! 

He died in 1907 at the Carmelite Monastery he had founded in Wadowice, Poland, the same city in which Pope John Paul II was born.

Visit these websites to learn more about this Carmelite Saint:

Online biography of St. Raphael

Photos of St. Raphael-Carmelite Website is in Polish-beautiful photos

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Saturday of Our Lady

November 17

OUR LADY OF SION

(QUEEN OF THE JEWS)

The conversion of Alphonse Ratisbonne

Read about the devotion to Our Lady of Sion

Read about the lives of those who converted to Catholicism from Judaism

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CARMELITE QUOTE

ST. THERESE OF THE CHILD JESUS:

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Carmelite Monasteries

THE DISCALCED CARMELITE NUNS OF SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA

(Click on photo)

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Saturday of Our Lady

(C) Photo: R. Massaro

Mary "was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory when her earthly life was over, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things."Lumen Gentium, 59

If the winds of temptation arise,
if you are driven upon the rocks of tribulation,
look to the star, call on Mary.
If you are tossed upon the waves of pride,
of ambition, of envy, of rivalry,
look to the star, call on Mary.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux


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Carmelite Saint of the Day

Bl. Francis Palau y Quer

Born in Aytona, Lerida, on December 29, 1811, Blessed Francis Palau y Quer entered the Carmelite Order in 1832 and was ordained priest in 1836. Civil turmoil forced him to live in exile and outside his community. On his return to Spain in 1851, he founded his "School of Virtue" -- which was a model of catechetical teaching -- at Barcelona. The school was suppressed and he was unjustly exiled to Ibiza (1854-1860) where he lived at El Vedra in solitude and experienced mystically the vicissitudes of the Church. While in the Balearic Islands he founded the Congregations of Carmelite Brothers and Carmelite Sisters (1860-1861). He preached popular missions and spread love of Our Lady wherever he went. He died at Tarragona on March, 1872, and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on April 24, 1980.

Visit the Carmelite Monastery in Little Rock, Arkansas


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ALL SOULS DAY

May all the souls of the faithfully departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

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