A heroic saint for modern times
This day in 1941 saw the death of a great Catholic saint: like Edith Stein and Titus Brandsma, the Carmelite saints who had both perished...
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SECULAR ORDER OF DISCALCED CARMELITES
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Aug 131 min read
Another thought on the mountain
Yesterday I wrote a few lines comparing the physical and the spiritual ascent (cf. John of the Cross). There is a famous remark...
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Aug 121 min read
Climbing mountains
I was having coffee with a friend after mass yesterday and we were talking - as you do at this time of year - about holidays. She...
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Aug 91 min read
"I go for my people"
These words are said to have been spoken by St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross OCD (Edith Stein) as she was forcibly removed from the...
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Aug 81 min read
Great saints sometimes arrive together
Today's feast of St Dominic set me thinking about those periods in history which seem to produce spectacular lives of sanctity, lives of...
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Aug 71 min read
A Sicilian Saint
If you have ever been to Sicily, you might have taken the ferry from the mainland to the port of Messina. It was there that a great...
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Aug 61 min read
An admirable centenarian
Tomorrow is the funeral of Evelyn Rodgers, who has died at the age of 100. Evelyn was a member of the OCDS community in Wincanton in the...
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Aug 51 min read
Putting your money where your mouth is
At our Coventry meeting on Saturday I was struck by how our discussion of a text by Therese of Lisieux led into the difficulties all of...
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Aug 21 min read
A Carmelite magazine
I've been looking at the latest issue of Mount Carmel: a Review of the Spiritual life, produced by the Discalced Carmelites of the...
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cpblamires
Aug 11 min read
PS to today's blog
PS I should have mentioned that today is the Feast Day of St Alphonsus.
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Aug 11 min read
A great saint who loved Teresa
An eighteenth-century saint and Doctor of the Church celebrated for his contribution to moral theology, St. Alphonsus Liguori wrote...
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Jul 311 min read
Ignatius and Carmel
Today's feast of St Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, reminds me of my journey into the Catholic Church. I grew up...
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Jul 301 min read
Light from the Office of Readings
One of the great blessings I have received in Carmel is the encouragement to follow the daily office of Readings in the Breviary. I...
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Jul 291 min read
Active and contemplative
I have friends who tell me that they have long had an urge to enter monastic life but circumstances have not allowed it to be fulfilled. ...
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Jul 261 min read
Summer breaks
We had our Virtual Community meeting last night. This is a meeting online which is like a shortened version of a Secular Carmelite...
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Jul 251 min read
St James and St Teresa
Is there any particular connection between the Apostle St James - whose feast day is today - and St Teresa of Avila? Yes there is. St...
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Jul 241 min read
A forgotten pioneer
Today is the feast day of a hugely important figure in the history of our Order, Blessed John Soreth (1391-1471), who was Prior General...
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Jul 231 min read
You are born a Carmelite ...
Fr Matt Blake, our Delegate from the Friars, makes a very precious contribution to our life in the Secular Carmelites. We prize many of...
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Jul 221 min read
We started in a shop ....
The first meeting of the new Northampton OCDS group in the Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour took place last Thursday. We had...
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Jul 191 min read
Praying and Knowing things
In our Northampton group last night we discussed the balance between reading and praying in spiritual growth. Two of us had been...
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