Blog | Carmelite Spirituality
When God Sends Messengers
When God sends messengers, you never know when and where they’ll appear. With a heavy heart, I put down the telephone and sighed. I knew it was right that I, like the other sisters in my Carmelite community, set myself to the task now ahead of us.
Accompaniment on Life’s Journey
As of late, I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit. The gift of having someone who accompanies you in life through all its ups and downs, through all the processing, through the continuous transitions that seem to be part and parcel to change, growth and maturity
Family Spirit
When I hear the words “family spirit” so many, many thoughts crowd into my mind. “Family Spirit” is a concept that includes so many things that it is hard to include them all here.
True authenticity – Knowing Who God Created Us to Be
Recently, I have been praying a lot about how God created each person (myself included) to be completely unique – unlike any other. We have…
Authenticity – Allow yourself to be known and loved exactly as you are
There is a scene at the end of the live-action Cinderella movie that resonates so deeply in my heart every time I see it. After all that Cinderella’s…
The Journey into Authenticity
When I entered Carmel, so many years ago now, something happened. Separated from all that went before, I entered into the great mystery of consecrated life. In Carmel…
Authenticity – Trumpeting the glory and goodness of God
To be or not to be – that really is the question.
Authenticity – to be true to oneself. In our broken world, there is such confusion surrounding…
Authenticity – Embracing who we are, exactly how God made us
Authenticity. First of all, what is it? The following words or phrases are often synonymously used with authenticity: genuineness, trustworthy, true, real, honesty…
Community Life: Our Religious Family
What does it mean to be a life-long member of this religious family? It means that we strive to know and love each other as we are. Not as we think we should be, not as we hope we would be, but simply as we are.
The Fruit of the Spirit is Joy
We too must learn to trust, be vulnerable, share sorrows and joys, contribute, grow and mature, and yes, make mistakes and start over again. But that is what makes it all so worth the effort. The rewards are out of this world!