We hear of this mystery as the Exultant sung by the Deacon during the Easter Vigil Mass. Speaking of Adam and Eve’s sin, the ancient words recall, “O happy fault which earned for us so great a Savor.”
Carmelite Spirituality
A Friend of Jesus Christ
Are you a friend of Jesus Christ? It is an acceptable time to ask during Holy Week, for love is demanding. For example, God asked Adam in the garden, “Where are you?” It wasn’t that God couldn’t see Adam hiding. The question begged a response, “Where are you with me?”
Laying Down Our Cloaks for Jesus
As Jesus entered Jerusalem, the people responded to Him with what they had readily available, their cloaks. These they offered in a practical and symbolic way: laying them on the colt for Jesus to ride and spreading them on the path before Him.
Radical Dependence on the Father
In today’s Gospel, Jesus reveals yet another counter-cultural truth. He, who is the picture of perfect human maturity, “can do nothing without His Father”.
I Love to Hear Your Voice
“If today you hear His voice, harden not your hearts” (Ps.95). I have to be honest, as a youth growing up and attending Mass, I got tired of this refrain being sung or read over and over and over during Lent…
And It Is Wonderful in Our Eyes
As Carmelites, our ears perk up whenever we hear garden imagery. You may or may not know, “Carmel” in Hebrew means the Garden of God. The enclosed garden of your soul…
A Righteous Man
By Sister Rita Therese, O.C.D. December 8, 2020 marked the 150th anniversary of Blessed Pius IX’s proclamation of St. Joseph as “Patron of the...
Strange Chapters in Our Lives?
Take out your Bibles and observe an interesting phenomenon: the book of Esther is divided up into chapters that include both numbers and letters. Whoever heard of such a strange way of composing a book?