Conversion not a one time act
St Maravillas21:Great book by this Carmelite priest: Originally posted on A Blog for Dallas Area Catholics: From Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen in his magnum opus Divine Intimacy , CONVERSION :...
View ArticleHumility the basis of the spiritual life
Originally posted on A Blog for Dallas Area Catholics: One of my goals during Lent was to try to make the blog less topical and less scandal-oriented, and to focus on what I hope are non-controversial...
View ArticleToday is the anniversary of the most solemn event in all history
Originally posted on A Blog for Dallas Area Catholics: Have a Blessed Feast of the Annunciation, when God the Holy Spirit entered into the only woman ever preserved from Original Sin, and first became...
View ArticleHumility key to knowing our place
Originally posted on A Blog for Dallas Area Catholics: Another post in a Lenten series on humility from Divine Intimacy by Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen. Humility is the key to knowing our place...
View ArticleSt. Teresa of Avila Quotes
A St. Teresa of Avila statue that is in a Carmelite monastery.
View ArticleAccepting humiliations key to developing humility
Originally posted on A Blog for Dallas Area Catholics: I don’t know about you, but being humiliated is about the most painful thing I can experience, at least emotionally. But Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary...
View ArticleCloistered Carmelite nuns arrive at Bismarck, SD Diocese
A life of silence. A life of joy. A life alone with God. This is what the Carmelite sisters from Alexandria, S.D. will be pursuing at their new home in south-central North Dakota. On March 19, the...
View ArticleEBAY – I am selling items for raise money for my transportation expenses to...
(Praying to be on one soon to Carmel in Sheffield, England!) I am selling many items on Ebay for raise money for my transportation expenses to Carmel. Several months ago I had skin cancer removal...
View ArticleSt. Therese and Pranzini – newspaper article on his excution
Pranzini, a murderer, was the first spiritual child of St. Thérèse. “The lips of my ‘first child’ were pressed to the Divine Wounds: what a sweet response. My desire to save souls increased each day...
View ArticleSt John of the Cross: How to Avoid Being Scandalized
Sermon on Monday of Holy Week. If the Church is following Her Lord by entering into a Passion, there will be no shortage of devils and stumbling blocks attempting to scandalize us… In this sermon we...
View ArticlePersevering with the Holy Face of Jesus
Here is another meditation on how we can avoid being scandalized in the Passion of the Church… by way of devotion to (always looking at, as it were) the Holy Face of Jesus. For more please visit...
View ArticlePart 2: EBAY – I am selling items for raise money for my transportation...
(Praying to be on one soon to Carmel in Sheffield, England!) Added since Part 1: I changed the amount needed on the top right of this blog, I had forgot to do that before. There is a good chance I...
View ArticleSt. Teresa of Avila painting
I believe this is a painting of St. Teresa of Avila, Carmelite Reformer and Doctor of the Church. I have to ask a friend who had this picture if this is correct but given the woman is a Carmelite...
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