Photo: R.Massaro (C) Spirit Singing Carmelite Monastery Cleveland, Ohio

SOLEMNITY OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL

Bounteous Mother of God, Glory of Mount Carmel, we are members of your family, endow us with your own virtues; have pity, and protect us from every danger.




Peace be with you!
Rosemarie, ocds

Photo: R. Massaro Lourdes, France (C)2019 Spirit Singing

Secular Carmelites throughout the world will be praying and fasting on Monday, July 15, in preparation for the solemnity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on July 16.  Secular Carmelites fast on the vigil of the major feasts of the Order.  

Although we are asked to fast on these special days of preparation, Carmelites are called to mortify and detach themselves from worldly pleasures often. Detachment helps us to be disposed for prayer, for as St. Teresa of Jesus tells us in her Way of Perfection, "Prayer and self-Indulgence do not go together.
(The Way of Perfection, 4:2)

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, pray for us!


Peace be with you!
Rosemarie, ocds

SATURDAY OF OUR LADY

NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL

(From a Novena dated 1931)

FEAST DAY: JULY 16

Photo: R. Massaro (C) 2017 Spirit Singing St. Anthony Church Akron, Ohio

DAY 1

O Glorious Queen of Angels! Most pure and Ever Blessed Virgin Mary of Mt. Carmel! Powerful Advocate of all those who wear thy holy Scapular! Faithful Protectress of all the servants of thy Son Jesus Christ! I, an unworthy sinner, do this day, in the presence of thy beloved Son, my Saviour, choose thee for my Patroness, that through thy intercession, I may receive from Him whatsoever grace may be necessary and profitable for me now, and at the hour of my death. Amen.

Our Father and Hail Mary, Glory Be.

Let us pray...

O Almighty and Eternal God, who didst adorn the holy Order of Carmel with the glorious title of Thy Immaculate and ever Blessed Mother, grant propitiously that those who celebrate her Solemn Commemoration  may, by the assistance of Thy grace, turn their affection from all irregular adherence to this world, and place them entirely on the enjoyment of Thee, Who livest and reignest, one God world without end. Amen.

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS