CARMELITE QUOTE

 St. Teresa of Jesus (Avila):

 Knowing ourselves is something so important that I wouldn't want any relaxation ever in this regard, however high you may have climbed into the heavens. While we are on this earth nothing is more important to us than humility. So I repeat that it is good, indeed very good, to try to enter first into the room where self-knowledge is dealt with rather than fly off to other rooms. This is the right road.

Interior Castle I 2:9

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS

Carmelite Saint of the Day-Feast of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

Photo: R. Massaro Lourdes, France

 St.Teresa Benedicta of the Cross , OCD

Feast Day: August 9

known in the world as Edith Stein


A prayer to St. Teresa



Lord, God of our fathers,

you brought St. Teresa Benedicta

to the fullness of the science of the cross

at the hour of her martyrdom.

Fill us with that same knowledge;

and, through her intercession,

allow us always to seek after you, the supreme truth,

and to remain faithful until death to the covenant of love

ratified in the blood of your Son

for the salvation of all men and women.

We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.



"Love will be our eternal life."


Edith Stein


Read about St. Teresa


http://www.ewtn.com/faith/edith_stein.htm

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, ocds

SATURDAY OF OUR LADY

Prayer To Our Lady of the Scapular

Photo:R.Massaro(c)2013SpiritSinging

Carmelite Monastery Cleveland, Ohio

O Most Blessed and Immaculate Virgin, ornament and splendor of Carmel, you who look with an eye of special kindness on those who wear the Blessed Habit, look down also upon me and cover me with the mantle of your special protection. Strengthen my weakness with your power; enlighten the darkness of my mind with your wisdom; increase in me faith, hope and love. Adorn my soul with such graces and virtues as will ever be pleasing to your divine Son and to you. Assist me in life, and console me in death, with your most holy presence, and present me to the most Holy Trinity as your devoted servant and child; that I may eternally bless and praise you in paradise. Amen.











Peace be with you!
Rosemarie, OCDS