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Advent Booklet 2025
Advent Booklet 2025 You can read through the Carmelite Advent Reflections 2025 booklet here, or download the PDF using the button. If you would like...
Such Small Wings: A Reflection on St. Therese
A reflection from Sister Lourdes, O.C.D., written after listening to the song “With Such Small Wings”
Story of a Soul: Weak little bird
Excerpt from St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul, St. Thérèse’s autobiography
Proper Perspective
Time—a word that affects all of us. Thoughts on time probably happen to everyone, especially as one grows older, but I find myself regularly marveling at how quickly time passes.
Fresh Imperfections
Want to increase joy in your life? Delight in life as it is, and not as you consciously or unconsciously expect it to be. This was St. Therese’s secret.
Loved into Existence
Have you ever thought about how amazing it is that you exist? From one perspective, it can seem like random happenstance. But if just one of those relationships hadn’t happened, you, unique as you are, would not exist. God arranged all these things with you in mind, because He thought of you and loved you even before He created you.
Just as I Am
A good priest I know defines prayer as “the real you, conversing with the real God.” At one point, I was becoming discouraged in prayer, because it seemed I was always distracted…