Carmelite Saint of the Day

Saint Albert of Jerusalem

Bishop and Lawgiver of Carmel

Albert Avogadro was born about the middle of the twelfth century in Castel Gualteri in Italy. He became a Canon Regular of the Holy Cross at Mortara and was elected their prior in 1180. Named Bishop of Bobbio in 1184, and of Vercelli in 1185, he was made Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1205. There, in word and example, he was the model of a good pastor and peace-maker. While he was patriarch (1206-1214) he united the hermits of Mount Carmel into one community and wrote a Rule for them. He was murdered at Acre on Sept. 14, 1214.

(from the Carmelite Proper)

THE RULE OF ST. ALBERT

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS

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Rosemarie, OCDS

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Spiritual Life Dictionary

Today's Term: Rapture

Sometimes used as a synonym for ecstasy. But St. Teresa distinguishes it as a special kind of ecstasy, sudden in its onset, whereas ordinary ecstasy is quiet. She compares it to a "strong giant," or "a whirlwind carrying everything away." A more developed form of it, of special intensity, is called "flight of the spirit." In this the soul seems to leave the body and fly toward heaven. The body is sometimes carried from the earth by the soul's vehemence, which is the phenomenon of levitation.

(From a Catholic Dictionary by Donald Atwater )

I know a man in Christ who, fourteen years ago, whether he was in or outside his body I cannot say, only God can say--a man who was snatched up to the third heaven.

(II Corinthians 12:2)

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS

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Sunday in the Year for Priests

From the life of St. John Marie Vianney

by Michele de Saint Pierre

Young Vianney, as we have said, was intelligent, shrewd, extraordinarily gifted with intuition, inclined to the loftiest spiritual meditation, and endowed with a generous and fiery imagination. He kept his impetuous temperament under control, thanks to his exceptional will power. He had good mental balance. Above all, he possessed vitality beyond compare, which was already at the service of his limitless zeal. He was a veritable volcano of interior energy, which love of God would later cause to erupt, sending its lava of charity far beyond the village of Ars, far beyond the boundaries of France.

John Paul II on the Cure of Ars

Peace be with you!
Rosemarie, OCDS
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Saturday of Our Lady

O Jesus, born of The Father from all eternity; filled with an incomprehensible love for men, you became man in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary through the operation of the Holy Ghost, humbling yourself to such a degree as to take the form of a servant. The same charity has prompted You to perpetuate, in the Eucharist, this mystery of annihilation and love, even to improve on it by becoming the food of our souls.

Divine Jesus, we adore You in these unfathomable debasements, and we beg you, through the intercession of your holy Mother, a deep an heartfelt humility.
(from the Eucharistic Rosary)
Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Poor Clare Nuns-Our Lady of the Angels Monastery
The beautiful website of the Carmelite Nuns of Terra Haute, Indiana

Peace be with you!
Rosemarie, OCDS
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Tabernacle of the Week-St. Mary-Mansfield, Ohio

In the same way that a friend visits his friend, so should you also visit Jesus in the holy Sacrament of the Altar;and, as often as you do visit him, offer again and again His most precious blood to the eternal Father. If you will do this you will find that the love of God will wonderfully increase in your heart, and that you will become truly devout and spiritual.

St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi

The Chaplet of Divine Mercy

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie

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Peace be with you!
Rosemarie, OCDS
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