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Discalced Carmelite Secular, Vatican-published translator, carmelitequotes.substack.com, carmelitequotes.blog, civil society activist
@carmelitequotes.blog✝️ Christ’s silence during his Passion was filled with love. Blessed Anne of St. Bartholomew reflects on what he taught us without speaking. How do we respond when we’re unjustly accused?
@carmelitequotes.blog💙 Bishop Silvio José Báez, OCD draws on Saint Teresa of Avila's wisdom in his October 11 homily: God keeps inviting us to his feast, even when we turn him away. How will we respond?
@carmelitequotes.blog🙏 What prayers have stayed with you since childhood? For St. Edith Stein’s October 12 birthday, we share her novice mistress’s account of her Jewish family.
@carmelitequotes.blogBishop Silvio José Báez, OCD, reflects on the God who never tires of inviting us to his feast.
@carmelitequotes.blogBorn on 12 October 1891, Edith Stein carried her family’s love and faith into Carmel.
@carmelitequotes.blogTotally unique!
@carmelitequotes.blogSeparate fact from fiction about the Brown Scapular with a study guide grounded in official sources.
@jdmccafferty.bsky.socialReposted by @carmelitequotes.blogSunday 11 Oct, Dublin
@carmelitequotes.blog💙 Every Carmelite cell should have an image of Our Lady. In prison, St. Titus Brandsma had to improvise. How did he give her a place above his bed?
@carmelitequotes.blog🕯️ Saint John of the Cross takes Sunday’s Gospel seriously: salvation calls for vigilance, not complacency. What needs to change in our lives?
@carmelitequotes.blogSaint John of the Cross warns against selfish worship and complacency about salvation.
@usccbofficial.bsky.socialReposted by @carmelitequotes.blogUSCCB President Condemns Plans for Livestream of Fort Hood Shooter's Execution as ‘a Barbaric Promotion of a Culture of Death’
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@carmelitequotes.blogFascinating!
@carmelitequotes.blog💙 Blessed Anne of St. Bartholomew’s brothers scolded her for staying out late with the flocks. They had no idea the Infant Jesus was keeping her company. Who could blame her for wanting to stay?
@carmelitequotes.blogBlessed Anne of St. Bartholomew was a mystic from her childhood. We recall her birth on 10 October 1549.
@carmelitequotes.blog🕯️ While weighing whether to become Catholic, St. John Henry Newman found a striking resemblance between biblical figures and Catholic religious. What did it reveal?
@jdmccafferty.bsky.socialReposted by @carmelitequotes.blogPortrait miniature of an unknown woman, watercolour on vellum, painted by Isaac Oliver, c. 1615. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London) The small jewel or locket on her ruff is clearly meant to stand out. And once meant something to her - and somebody else perhaps.
@jdmccafferty.bsky.socialReposted by @carmelitequotes.blogI like that the Irish Franciscans in #Rome kept a copy of one of Henry VIII’s earlier literary offerings
@jdmccafferty.bsky.socialReposted by @carmelitequotes.blog11 Oct 1644: The trial of William Laud Archbishop of #Canterbury ends #otd He was attainted 4 Jan, then executed on 11 Jan 1645 (BM)
@jdmccafferty.bsky.socialReposted by @carmelitequotes.blogSt. Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy Caravaggio c. 1595 (Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut)
