Carmelite Quotes

In the Gospel we’ve heard this Sunday, Jesus asks his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” (Mt 16:13). The disciples tell him that people identified him with some of the prophets of old (Mt 16:14). The people see in Jesus someone who lives in deep communion with God and speaks in his name, who is close to the people and willing even to suffer in ser...

August 25
SAINT MARY OF JESUS CRUCIFIED BAOUARDY
Virgin

Memorial

Saint Mary (Mariam) of Jesus Crucified was born of the Baouardy family, Catholics of the Greek Melkite Rite, at Abellin in Galilee in 1846. In 1867 Mariam entered the Discalced Carmelites at Pau i...

On 24 August 1562, Saint Teresa of Avila founded the monastery of Saint Joseph, the first monastery of the Discalced Carmelite reform. In The Book of Her Life, she recalls the fierce opposition that arose almost immediately:

After two or three days some of the councilmen as well as the mayor and the city council gathered in a meeting an...

Before ascending again into heaven, [Jesus Christ] appointed his representative on earth; he founded his visible Church, and within his Church he also established the pontifical kingship in the person of Peter.

He said to Peter: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. And remember, I am with you—and with your successors—always, to the end of...

The Blessed Virgin Mary left this earth in both body and soul. We might have imagined that, from then on, lost in the glory of God, she would be wholly absorbed in the vision of God.…

The Virgin Mary remains forever alive. And what lives within her? Love, always. Her love remains alive, now enlarged to the dimensions of the Most Holy Trinity in whom she lives: mater...