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Besides the time spent at Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours each day, we spend two hours in silent personal prayer, and about one hour in spiritual reading.
Throughout the day, we try to remain in prayerful recollection, in loving contact with God, Who dwells within us. In this, we try to imitate the faithful and silent love that the Mother of Jesus showed at all times, as she pondered the mysteries of God in her heart.
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We frequently ask the help of St Joseph, too: that wonderful silent saint who was so loved by Our Lord and who knows Him so well ! - "I know by experience, " said St Teresa of Jesus, "that the glorious St Joseph assists us in all necessities. I never asked him for anything that he did not obtain for me."
At every moment, we have the prayerful help of our guardian angels and all the angels and saints.
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We find great encouragement and help in the writings of our Carmelite Saints. - St Teresa of Jesus (of Avila), St John of the Cross, St Thérèse of the Child Jesus (of Lisieux) and so many other Carmelites have left writings that continue to help people from all walks of life...
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St John of the Cross: "Preserve a loving attentiveness to God...
Strive to preserve your heart in peace and let no event of this world disturb it.
Reflect that all must come to an end." |
St Teresa of Jesus: "Christ helps us and strengthens us and never fails;
He is a true Friend." |
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Venerable Marguerite Parigot (1619-1648) entered the French Carmel of Beaune
at the age of twelve, taking the name “Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament”.
She encouraged love for Jesus in His Infancy and Childhood through a
confraternity known as “The Family of the Child Jesus".
Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity: "In heaven, my mission will be to attract souls,
helping them to adhere to God by an all simple and all loving movement,
and to keep them in this great inward silence that allows God to imprint Himself in them,
to transform them into Himself....
I would like to be all silent, totally adoring, in order to penetrate always further into Him,
and to be so full of Him that I am able to give Him by prayer
to the poor souls ignorant of the gift of God."
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