Carmelite Quiz

TODAY'S QUIZ

1. Who said, "When I recall the foolish mistakes I made as superior, I blush."

2. St. Teresa of Jesus (Avila) wrote three major works. What are they? And in what order were they written?

3. Which of these works by St. Teresa, mentioned above, played an important role in the conversion of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)?

4. St. Therese implored which pope to let her enter Carmel at the age of fifteen?

(answers tomorrow)

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie

Tabernacle of the Week

 Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

Our Lord spoke to me and made me understand how lonely and abandoned He is in the Tabernacles. He asked me to keep Him company. Then He gave me my vocation, and said that He wanted my heart for Himself. He also told me I would become a Carmelite. From that moment I spent entire days in intimate conversation with Our Lord and felt happy to be alone. I was not living at this time my own life, but Jesus was living in me. I got up at seven. I did everything with Jesus and for Jesus. Our Lord showed me what holiness is. I would attain it by doing everything as well as possible.

St. Teresa of Jesus of the Andes (from her diary written at about the age of 14)

We can see in St. Teresa's writing her simplicity and purity of heart. What a simple rule for holiness Jesus taught her: "Our Lord showed me what holiness is. I would attain it by doing everything as well as possible." We know that the saints are filled with the Holy Spirit and not only do everything "well" but with great love.

Fr. Thomas Dubay, who has written extensively on Carmelite spirituality has mentioned more than a few times that Saints do not "cut corners." Let us learn from St. Teresa to do everything well. This may present a challenge at times when we want to take a short-cut on the spiritual road, but let us keep close to Jesus and spend time with him in the Blessed Sacrament. He will give us the grace we need to do everything with love.



Peace be with you!
Rosemarie, OCDS

Saturday of Our Lady

Prayer to Our Lady of Consolation

Patron of the State of Ohio

Holy Mary, Mother of Jesus, Consoler of the Afflicted, we place ourselves this day under your special protection and invoke your motherly aide. We promise to be faithful to your divine Son and to honor you with our whole heart. Accept us, we do implore you as your children, and protect us now and forever. Ever guide our footsteps; comfort us in our pain and grief; teach us through life to do the will of God and be with us at the hour of our death. Amen.

          visit the website of the Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation

Devotional/Honorary Titles of Mary from the Fifty States

of the United States and the Nation's Capital.
Courtesty of http://doctorsofthecatholicchurch.com/


AK Our Lady of Kodiak and the Islands

AL Our Lady of the Gulf

AR Our Lady of the Holy Souls

AZ Our Lady of the Highways

CA Our Lady of the Wayside

CO Immaculate Mary

CT Notre Dame of Easton

DE Our Lady of Mercy

FL Our Lady of LaLeche

GA Immaculate Heart of Mary

HI Star of the Sea

IA St. Mary of Nazareth

ID Our Lady of Limerick

IL Our Lady of the Universe

IN Our Lady of Providence

KS Mary Queen of Angels

KY Mother of God

LA Our Lady of Prompt Succor

MA Our Lady of the Incarnation

MD Our Lady of the Assumption

ME Our Lady of Peace

MI Gate of Heaven

MN Mother of the Church

MO Our Lady of Calvary

MS Our Lady of Sorrows

MT Our Lady of the Pines

NC Our Lady of the Holy Rosary

ND St. Mary Queen of Peace

NE Our Lady of the Presentation

NH Our Lady of Perpetual Help

NJ Our Lady of Fatima

NM Our Lady of Guadalupe

NV Our Lady of Las Vegas

NY Help of Christians

OH Our Lady of Consolation

OK Queen of All Saints

OR Our Lady of the Woods

PA Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal

RI Our Lady of Mount Carmel

SC St Mary the Virgin Mother

SD Our Lady of the Prairie

TN Our Lady of Lourdes

TX Our Lady of the Annunciation

UT Our Lady of the Snows

VA Queen of the Apostles

VT Our Lady of Grace

WA Our Lady of Good Help

WA,DC Our Immaculate Queen

WI Our Lady of the Americas

WV Our Lady of Victory

WI Our Lady of the Americas

WY St Mary of the Valley

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, ocds

Spiritual Life Dictionary

Today's Term:

MORTIFICATION

Mortification, then, may be defined as the struggle against our evil inclinations in order to subject them to the will, and the will to God. It is not so much a virtue as an ensemble of virtues--the first degree of all the virtues--which consists in overcoming the obstacles that stand in the way so as to restore to our faculties their lost balance and reestablish among them their right order. Thus it is easily seen that mortification is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. We mortify ourselves only to live a higher life; we despoil ourselves of external goods only the better to lay hold of spiritual goods; we renounce self but to possess God; we struggle but to obtain peace; we die to ourselves but to live the life of Christ, the life of God. Hence, the end of mortification is union with God.

The Spiritual Life, By Fr. Adolphe Tanquerey, #754

(click on photo for Stations of the Cross)

This definition of mortification as an ensemble of virtue will help us in our continued study of the fruits of the spirit also known as virtues. My next post on the fruits will take a closer look at the fruit of "Faithfulness."

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS

Catechism Quote

CATECHISM #220

God's love is "everlasting":41 "For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you."42 Through Jeremiah , God declares to his people, "I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you."

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS

Saturday of Our Lady

The Litany of Loreto

Today's Title:

QUEEN OF THE MOST HOLY ROSARY

Mary's interest in those confided to her maternal care by Christ her Sonis ceaseless. In every age she has revealed her affection for the souls of men-but never more so than when Mary gave the Rosary as a chain of prayer, to bind her holy heart with the hearts of her children everywhere.

(Source: Symbolic Meditations on the Litany of Our Lady by Fr. Robert Ackerman)

How To Say The Rosary

Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, Pray for us!

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS

Spiritual Life Dictionary

Today's Term: Spiritual Communion

A great desire to receive the Holy Eucharist when one is not able to do so. Spiritual Communion consists of acts of love and thanksgiving.

ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION

O my Jesus! I believe that you are truly present in the most holy Sacrament of the Altar. I love you above all things, and I desire to be united to you with my whole soul; but since I cannot now receive you sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart,--I embrace you as if you were really present with me; I unite myself wholly to you. Never let me be separated from you. Amen.

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS