Carmelite Quote

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Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS

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Carmelite Quote

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In preparation for the feast of our Holy Mother, St. Teresa I will post a few quotes from her for the next few days. A reminder to all secular Carmelites: October 14, the vigil of St. Teresa's feast day is a day of fast and abstinence. Our Rule allows the fast to be anticipated for good reason. Let us pray for each other!

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS

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Sunday in the Year for Priests

Father Vianney's memories of his childhood provided him not only a gay palette to give color to his fiery and fertile ideas. They also filled him with bitter regret. Love of the soil, of prayer, and of solitude would always continue to haunt him. In the exile of his crushing ministry, in the prison of his little confessional, he would often think of it with tears in his eyes: " If only, now that I am cultivating the souls of others, I had time to think of my own soul, as I did when I farmed my father's acres! How happy I would be!"..."I believe my vocation was to remain a shepherd all my life."

( the Remarkable Cure of Ars by Michel de Saint Pierre)

(photo: The Late Fr. Matthew Herttna, chaplain of St. Dymphna Shrine, Massillon, Ohio)

Visit the Shrine's website:

http://www.natlshrinestdymphna.org/

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS

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Tabernacle of the Week

Sts. Philip and James

Canal Fulton, Ohio

The Fruits of Holy Communion:

"One knows when a soul has received the sacrament of the Eucharist fittingly, for this soul becomes humble, gentle, mortified in its passions, charitable and modest, and gets on well with everyone."

St. John Vianney

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS

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Sunday in the Year for Priests

According to Catherine Lassange, one of the primary witnesses to the life of the Cure of Ars, he gave this account of his first confession: "I still remember it! It was at home, right beneath our clock."

But John Mary had to wait until the summer of 1799 to make his First Holy Communion. It had been said that the bloody upheavals and persecutions did not really disturb the mind and soul of this child. But now came the time of the "Second Terror." The calm had not lasted very long. New persecutions began against Catholics...

One had to go into hiding to pray to God. So much so, in fact, that John Mary--then slightly over thirteen years old--received his First Holy Communion in secret, in the shuttered room of a house in Ecully. "I was there," said Margaret Vianney. "My brother was so happy, that he did not want to leave that room." Fifty years later, the Cure of Ars showed his First Communion rosary to the children in his catechism class.

(From the Remarkable Cure of Ars by Michel de Saint Pierre)

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS

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Saturday of Our Lady

October is the month

of the Rosary.

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

A Prayer for Unborn Children

O God, our Heavenly Father, You sent Your Son into this world that He might Bless and Consecrate all life to You.
Your constant Love protected Him as the Ever Virgin Mary bore Him in Her womb for nine months.
In His mission He taught us the Greatness of Your Love and the Sanctity of Life.
We pray that we may always cherish the Life that You give us.
In a special way we ask and pray that You Grace and Protect all unborn children with Your ever caring Love.
We pray this in the Name of Jesus, Who is Lord, Forever and Ever. Amen.Most Rev. Louis E. Gelineau, D.D.
Bishop of Providence

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS

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OCD Feast-St. Therese of the Child Jesus

St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face

Feast Day -October 1

Ninth Day of Novena-LOVE OF ALL

I understand now that charity consists in bearing with the faults of others, in not being surprised at their weakness, in being edified by the smallest acts of virtue we see them practice.
St. Therese

My Vocation is Love

St. Paul explains how the most perfect gifts are nothing without love. Charity gave me the key to my vocation. The Church has a heart and this Heart was burning with love. I understood that LOVE comprised all vocations, that love was everything, that it embraced all times and places...In a word, that it was eternal! My vocation is Love! Yes, I have found my place in the Church, my Mother, I shall be love. St. Therese

God our Father, you have promised your kingdom to those who are willing to become like little children. Help us to follow the way of St. Therese with confidence so that by her prayers we may come to know your eternal glory. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen

I hope you have experienced the intercession of the Little Flower. Thank you for participating in this novena with me.

Peace be with you!
Rosemarie,OCDS

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