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If you would like to reflect further on the
life, prayer and vocation of the Discalced Carmelites you may like
to read and pray using the following extracts from the writings
of our Saints.
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Jesus Christ
In giving us His Son, His only Word (for He possesses
no other), God spoke everything to us at once in this sole Word - and He
has no more to say ... because what He spoke before to the prophets in
parts, He has now spoken all at once by giving us the All who is His Son.
St John of the Cross
We must have no confidence whatever in our own
strength, but trust in His mercy - and until we do this all is weakness.
St. Teresa of Avila
Look Jesus in the Face ... there you will see how
He loves us.
St Therese of Lisieux
Vocation
Your heart is made to love Jesus, to love Him passionately.
St. Therese of Lisieux
Be sure that the Lord will never foresake those
who love Him when they run risks solely for His sake.
St Teresa of Avila
By how many paths, in how many manners, through
how many means do you reveal your love to us.
St Teresa of Avila
It is God Himself who wishes to be the riches,
comfort, and delightful glory of the religious.
St John of the Cross
I understood that love comprised all vocations,
that love was everything, that it embraced all times and places, in a word,
that it was eternal! ... O Jesus, my Love ... my vocation,
at last I have found it, my vocation is love! ...in the heart of the Church,
my Mother, I shall be Love.
St Therese of Lisieux
God's Indwelling Presence
Come, then, O beautiful soul. Since you know now
that your desired Beloved lives hidden within your heart, strive to be
really hidden with Him, and you will embrace Him within you and experience
Him with loving affection.
St John of the Cross
The soul of the just person is nothing else but
a paradise where the Lord says He finds His delight.
St Teresa of Avila
Enter within yourself and work in the presence
of your Spouse Who is ever present loving you.
St John of the Cross
He is within me at each moment; He is guiding and
inspiring me with what I must say and do.
St Therese of Lisieux
Prayer
Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than
an intimate sharing between friends it means taking time frequently to
be alone with Him who we know loves us.
St Teresa of Avila
Our most holy King has much more to give: He would
rejoice to do nothing but give could He find souls capable of receiving.
St Teresa of Avila
The Father spoke one Word, which was His Son, and
this Word He always speaks in eternal silence, and in silence must It be
heard by the soul.
St John of the Cross
For me, prayer means launching out of the heart
towards God; it means lifting up ones' eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a
cry of grateful love, from the crest of joy or the trough of despair.
St Therese of Lisieux
Mary
Imitate Our Lady and consider how great she must
be and what a good thing it is that we have her for our Patroness.
St Teresa of Avila
The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is
the heart of a mother.
St Therese of Lisieux
I should like to respond by spending my earthly
life as Our Lady did ... I unite myself to the soul of the Virgin at the
moment in which the Father was covering her with His shadow, while the
Word was taking flesh within her and the Holy Spirit came upon her to accomplish
this great mystery.
Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity
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