louange de sa gloire: It is up to me to answer for the great deeds of divine love

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Monday - Holy Spirit
Tuesday - Holy Angels
Wednesday - St Joseph
Thursday - Blessed Sacrament & Priesthood
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Saturday - Blessed Virgin Mary
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Prayer for the helpless unborn

Heavenly Father, in Your love for us, protect against the wickedness of the devil, those helpless little ones to whom You have given the gift of life. Touch with pity the hearts of those women pregnant in our world today who are not thinking of motherhood. Help them to see that the child they carry is made in Your image - as well as theirs - made for eternal life. Dispel their fear and selfishess and give them true womanly hearts to love their babies and give them birth and all the needed care that a mother alone can give. We ask this through Jesus Christ, Your Son, Our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.

Carmelite Must Reads

Dark Night of the Soul by St John of the Cross
Interior Castle by St Teresa of Avila
Isabel de la Trinidad - Obras completas (EDE edition)
Letters of Edith Stein
Letters of St Teresa of Jesus of the Andes
Living Flame of Love by St John of the Cross
Santa Teresita: Modelo y mártir de la vida religiosa by Fr Alberto Barrios
Spiritual Canticle by St John of the Cross
Story of a Soul by St Therese of Lisieux (critical edition)
The Ascent of Mount Carmel by St John of the Cross
The book of her life by St Teresa of Avila
The Spirit and Prayer of Carmel by Fr Francois Jamart
Way of Perfection by St Teresa of Avila (study edition by ICS)
Way of Perfection for the Laity by Fr Kevin

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

It is up to me to answer for the great deeds of divine love

"God has given me so many gifts, so much strength and power, so great a richness in maturity and grace that there are no words to express - much less to measure - my gratitude. Now it is up to me to make answer for the great deeds of divine love. And in freedom. For God compels nobody - just as I myself cannot compel a beloved person to do anything. It must be out of love." -- Bl Karl Leisner

-- The Victory of Father Karl by Otto Pies, SJ

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Prayer for a Priest

O Jesus, our great High Priest, hear my humble prayers on behalf of your priest, Father [N].

Give him a deep faith a bright and firm hope and a burning love which will ever increase in the course of his priestly life.

In his loneliness, comfort him in his sorrows, strengthen him in his frustrations, point out to him that it is through suffering that the soul is purified, and show him that he is needed by the Church, he is needed by souls, he is needed for the work of redemption.

O loving Mother Mary, Mother of Priests, take to your heart your son who is close to you because of his priestly ordination, and because of the power which he has received to carry on the work of Christ in a world which needs him so much.

Be his comfort, be his joy, be his strength, and especially help him to live and to defend the ideals of consecrated celibacy. Amen.

Composed by John Joseph Cardinal Carberry

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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

It is up to me to answer for the great deeds of divine love

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