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The prophet Elijah appears in Scripture as a man of God who lived always in His presence and fought zealously for the worship of the one God. He defended God’s law in a solemn contest on Mt. Carmel, and afterwards was given on Mt. Horeb an intimate experience of the living God. The hermits, who instituted a form of monastic life in honor of Our Lady on Mt. Carmel in the twelft...
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As the French Revolution entered its worst days, sixteen Discalced Carmelites from the Monastery of the Incarnation in Compiègne offered their lives as a sacrifice to God, making reparation to him and imploring peace for the Church. On June 24th, 1794, they were arrested and thrown into prison. Their happiness and resignation were so evident that those around them were also e...
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Juana Fernandez Solar was born in Santiago, Chile, on July 13, 1900. From her adolescence, she was devoted to Christ. She entered the monastery of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns at Los Andes on May 7, 1919, where she was given the name of Teresa of Jesus. She died on April 12 of the following year after having made her religious profession. She was beatified on April 3, 1987, at Santi...
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Louis Martin was born in Bordeaux on August 22, 1823. While he was a master watchmaker in Alençon, he met Marie Azelie (Zélie) Guérin, a lacemaker born in Gandelain (St-Denis-sur-Sarthon), on December 23, 1831. They were married on July 13, 1858, and had nine children, including the future Saint Thérèse of the Infant Jesus. Model spouses, devoted p...
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Giuseppina Catanea was born in Naples on February 18, 1894. She entered the Carmelite community of Santa Maria Ponti Rossi and made her solemn profession on August 6, 1933. In 1945, she was elected prioress, an office she held until her death. She endured the painful trials of illness and persecution by abandoning herself to the will of God. All who sought her help were inspired by ...
The Nativity of St. John the Baptist
We join with all the Church to celebrate St. John the Baptist, the great bridge between the Old and New Testaments, who calls us to Christ in all the Gospels. Let us remember that when the Archangel Gabriel told the Blessed Virgin Mary of this wonder, She got up and went in haste to a town in the mountains of Judah (the inscription in Latin on the pictur...
Eucharistic Adoration is at the Center of Our Charism
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“Elijah came upon Elisha and threw his cloak over him. Immediately Elisha left the oxen and ran after Elijah as his attendant” (cf. 1 Kgs 19:19–21). Elisha was filled with the spirit of Elijah; among the many signs he performed, he cured Naaman of Leprosy and raised a dead child to life. He lived among the sons of the prophets, and in God’s name, he frequentl...
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Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist was born on January 16, 1884, in Catanzano. Her parents, Pietro Barba and Giovanna Florona, returned to Palermo, Sicily, where she received First Holy Communion on April 3, 1894. In 1919, she entered the Discalced Carmelite Monastery, Ragusa, making solemn profession on April 23, 1924. She was Prioress and Mistress of Novices many times, radiat...
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He was born in 1891 at Baranowka, near Lubartow, Poland. He entered the Order of Discalced Carmelites in 1908, taking the religious name Alphonsus Maria of the Holy Spirit. He was ordained a priest and appointed as a professor while dedicating himself to the education of youth. Afterward, he served in his Order as prior and bursar. In 1944, after having been arrested by the troops t...
