L’Abbaye Saint-Vincent de Chantelle bientôt à vendre

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://riposte-catholique.fr/archives/214677?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=labbaye-saint-vincent-de-chantelle-bientot-a-vendre

La FSSP connaît une croissance soutenue

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://riposte-catholique.fr/archives/214532?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=la-fssp-connait-une-croissance-soutenue

La communauté cistercienne de la Merci-Dieu quitte les lieux

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://riposte-catholique.fr/archives/214539?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=la-communaute-cistercienne-de-la-merci-dieu-quitte-les-lieux

Un nouveau supérieur pour la Famille Missionnaire de Notre-Dame

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://riposte-catholique.fr/archives/214142?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=un-nouveau-superieur-pour-la-famille-missionnaire-de-notre-dame

Lettre pastorale de Monseigneur Michel sur les vierges consacrées vivant dans le monde

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://riposte-catholique.fr/archives/213791?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lettre-pastorale-de-monseigneur-pierre-yves-michel-eveque-de-nancy-et-toul-sur-vierges-consacrees-vivant-dans-le-monde

Brazilian couple who left priesthood and convent have tied the knot

Lais and Jackson Dognini met while they were both living lives of religious servitude. Photo / Lais Dognini…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #after #and #both #brazilian #Catholic #church #Convent #couple #have #knot #leaving #left #NewZealand #NZ #Priest #priesthood #the #their #tied #vocations #who
https://www.newsbeep.com/174028/

Quote of the day, 6 September: Père Jacques

Carmel is a community of human beings who reveal God to other human beings. There should be a Carmel in every city, and then there would be no need of works. One would see God through these human beings who live for him and him alone.

A person does not withdraw to Carmel because of weariness, or to know tranquility, or to live a mediocre life, or to flee the cares of keeping a home and family, or to have a more comfortable existence.

One comes here because she is athirst for God, because she desires to find God and to reveal God to the whole world.

Servant of God Père Jacques de Jésus

Conference 1, Solitude, the Essence of Carmel
Monday morning, 6 September 1943

Jacques, P 2005, Listen to the silence: A retreat with Père Jacques, translated from the French and edited by Murphy F, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Mother María Capilla de Jesús, OCD, is seen walking down a hallway on the main floor of the Carmel of Valladolid. Image credit: Angel Cantero, Iglesia en Valladolid / Flickr (Some rights reserved)

#CarmeliteLife #GodAlone #mission #PèreJacquesDeJésus #vocations

Quote of the day, 13 May: Ven. Maria Lucia

Sister Lucia entered the Carmelite convent [of Coimbra] on the same liturgical day that she was born—Holy Thursday. It was also the Feast of the Annunciation [25 March 1948], and now also the Solemn Profession of a sister, [so when Lucia entered as a new member of the community, everything] was absorbed by the Solemnity of the day. 

In the Easter Triduum, the silence is more profound, making it more desirable to adore and contemplate the mystery of the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Our Lord, Who for our sake became man and suffered death to save us from sin and death. 

After Mass, Sister Lucia, in the company of Mother Prioress, was given her cell dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Centered on top of the door was a small frame which read: ‘Immaculate Heart of Mary’, and then a sentence addressed to the inhabitant: ‘My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge.’ 

This sentence was at eye level and she read it every time she entered her cell. It would be a heavenly melody in her heart during the 57 years she lived in Carmel.

On Easter Monday, March 29, she wrote to her Superior [from the Sisters of St. Dorothy] in Tuy, Mother Cunha Matos, telling her of her joy: 

As of right now, you know that on Holy Thursday morning at 5:30 a.m. I entered the Carmel of Coimbra, by the arrangements of the Bishop here, who came on this day and at that hour to assist in the Solemn Profession of a Sister. I enjoyed it very much and I am very well and extremely happy.

My name is Sister Mary of the Immaculate Heart, what a beautiful name, is it not? Far more beautiful than Sister Dores [Sister Sorrows], don’t you think? Here I found a small group of lovely sisters; whenever I encounter them I have the impression of meeting Saint Teresa. The name was chosen here by the Bishop.

Venerable Maria Lucia of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart

Chapter XVI, Religious Carmelite

of St. Teresa Coimbra Portugal, C 2015, A pathway under the gaze of Mary : biography of Sister Maria Lucia of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart O.C.D., translated from the Portuguese by Colson, J, World Apostolate of Fatima USA, Washington NJ.

Featured image: Venerable Lucia uses a word processor with a CRT display in her cell. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons (Some rights reserved)

⬦ Reflection Question ⬦
What would it mean for me to let Mary’s Immaculate Heart truly be my refuge?
⬦ Join the conversation in the comments.

#CarmelOfCoimbra #cell #ImmaculateHeartOfMary #inspiration #monasticLife #nuns #OurLadyOfFatima #VenerableMariaLuciaOfJesusAndTheImmaculateHeart #vocations