Please join us 20th October at 6pm for the first day of the online novena to Saint Jude: https://stjudeshrine.org.uk/events/novena-to-saint-jude-day-1/
All are welcome!
#saintjude #carmelite #apostle

Please join us 20th October at 6pm for the first day of the online novena to Saint Jude: https://stjudeshrine.org.uk/events/novena-to-saint-jude-day-1/
All are welcome!
#saintjude #carmelite #apostle
4 Oct 1582: d. St. Teresa of Avila #Carmelite mystic & reformer at #Salamanca #otd on the night #Spain moved from 4 Oct to 15 Oct - her feast set by the change to the Gregorian calendar. Some regarded it as an extra miracle granted to avoid a clash with St Francis.
Please join us 20th October a6 6pm for the first day of the online novena to Saint Jude: https://stjudeshrine.org.uk/events/novena-to-saint-jude-day-1/
All are welcome!
#saintjude #carmelite #apostle
🕯️ As the community offered prayers for the dying, Saint Thérèse could hardly breathe. At noon, Mother Agnès preserved a brief moment from that difficult day in her yellow notebook.
🧶 In his Letters, Brother Lawrence urges continual conversation with God, sustained by love rather than a search for consolation. His counsel reaches into ordinary daily life.
🪡 Blessed Josefa Naval Girbés opened her home to help young people grow in faith. On her beatification anniversary, read her biographer’s account of the prayer that nourished her work.
🌱 Blessed Josefa Naval Girbés taught young people in her home and cared for people stricken by cholera. In this beatification homily, Saint John Paul II praised her apostolate as a woman living in the world.
Darkness as Guidance 🌑
In #mysticism darkness is guidance 🛤️ not failure The Dark Night protects the soul as #faith learns to walk without sight ✨
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🕯️ What does Christlike leadership look like? Saint Albert of Jerusalem answers: the one who would be first must become the servant of all. Obedience, in turn, looks beyond the prior to Christ.
You may have seen them walking through OTR in habits, Bengals gear or even #Carmelite beanies.
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I was received into the community in 2009 and made my final promises in 2014 on the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows.
🕯️ What if silence is not God’s absence, but the place where we learn to receive him? Père Jacques de Jésus’s meditation turns to the Annunciation and Nativity, revealing how the listening heart welcomes God.
✉️ Even Saint Teresa needed someone to write back. Ill and lonely after reaching Avila, she tells a trusted friend how little rest life offers, then recalls the rivers that kept her company along the way.
🌿 Why do Carmelites embrace solitude? Père Jacques says it is not for comfort or escape, but because they thirst for God and want to reveal him to the world.