✝️ In January 1580, St Teresa of Avila wrote her sister of upcoming Ash Wednesday travels—and of life as a “land of exile.” We endure separation in hope of the homeland that will last forever. 🔗 https://twp.ai/ImvzWu #AshWednesday #StTeresaOfAvila #Lent

St Teresa writes to her sister, sharing her Ash Wednesday travel plans.

🕊 “I can boast only of His mercy.” Saint Teresa of Avila reminds us that when we cannot rely on ourselves, we approach God’s mercy and trust in the merits of His Son and the intercession of His Mother. 🔗 https://twp.ai/ImvzRJ #TrustInGod

🙏 In a world marked by fear and suffering, Bishop Silvio José Báez, O.C.D., calls us to persevere in trust. Even when we cannot understand what befalls us, we remain united to Christ, sustained by the love of God. 🔗 https://twp.ai/Imw1dE #TrustInGod #Perseverance

Persevere in trust: even when we don’t understand, God’s love sustains and consoles.

A beautiful poem!

🕯️ “If you make use of your reason, you are like one who eats substantial food…” Saint John of the Cross reminds us that disciplined reason, ordered by justice, nourishes the soul far more than self-satisfaction ever can. 🔗 https://twp.ai/Imw2BE #SpiritualGrowth

🕊️ Refraining from evil is not enough. Preaching on Matthew 5, Bishop Silvio José Báez, O.C.D., reminds us that we can wound with words, kill with silence, and keep the Law without love. The Kingdom calls us to something greater: great love. 🔗 https://twp.ai/Imw2PC #ChristianLiving

Refraining from evil is not enough; the Kingdom calls us to great love.

🩺 When Saint Teresa of Avila’s arm was shattered and left permanently weakened, she did not spiritualize the pain. She described illness plainly—and insisted the sick be cared for with real tenderness. Her suffering sharpened her compassion. 🔗 https://twp.ai/Imvo8R #StTeresaOfAvila

Wounded in body, Saint Teresa’s suffering forged deeper compassion for the sick.

❤️ “God is a strange lover; the story of His love is most surprising.” On Valentine’s Day, Carmelite poet Jessica Powers reflects on God’s love—a love that purifies, strips away illusion, and at last fills the soul with light. 🔗 https://twp.ai/Imvo6V #JessicaPowers #Poetry

🌲 Life is short and the reckoning strict. St. John of the Cross describes the soul awakened to her debt before God — every account rendered “unto the last penny.” Pierced by love, she begins to seek the hidden Beloved. 🔗 https://twp.ai/ImvpUf #StJohnoftheCross #CatholicFaith

Life is short and the reckoning strict: the soul begins her search for the hidden Beloved.

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❤️ Love begins in gratitude. In “The Gift of Love,” Carmelite poet Jessica Powers portrays love as grateful remembrance. Thoughts of the beloved are drawn from memory’s hidden depths, shaped with care, and entrusted to love itself. 🔗 https://twp.ai/ImvuSi #ValentinesDay #Poetry

Grateful love draws hidden treasures from the heart’s deep mines.

🕊️ On February 12, 1691, Brother Lawrence died with these words: “I hope for the merciful grace of seeing Him in a few days.” A life of practicing the presence of God ended in confident hope. 🔗 https://twp.ai/ImvtLK #BrotherLawrence #PracticeOfThePresenceOfGod

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👣 On February 13, 1580, Saint Teresa of Avila left Malagón to establish the Carmel of Villanueva de la Jara. Despite fragile health, she pressed forward, reminding her daughters not to let weakness deter them when something serves the Lord. 🔗 https://twp.ai/ImvvWC #SaintTeresaOfAvila

February 13, 1580: Teresa trusted God’s strength in founding her thirteenth monastery.

We conclude our series featuring Brother Lawrence’s simple maxims, as we recall his death on 12 February 1691 in Paris.

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We continue our series featuring Brother Lawrence’s simple maxims for practicing the presence of God.

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We continue our series featuring Brother Lawrence’s simple maxims for practicing the presence of God.

We continue our series featuring Brother Lawrence’s simple maxims for practicing the presence of God.

We continue our series featuring Brother Lawrence’s simple maxims for practicing the presence of God.

We continue our series featuring Brother Lawrence’s simple maxims for practicing the presence of God.

Join us for a series featuring the spiritual maxims of Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection.

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🙏 to each of you dealing w cancer or survivors - I am with you 🎀🫶🎀 & thankful for each of you supporting us #WorldCancerDay 🙏

We understand Saint Teresa of the Andes’ Marian devotion through her diary, which testifies to her unshakeable love for the Virgin. Join us on Substack each day to explore Teresa's 1917 pilgrimage to Santiago's Lourdes shrine. https://twp.ai/NTZYXp #Lourdes #Carmelites

"God is the dawn," writes Carmelite poet Jessica Powers, in this inspirational excerpt from her poem, "God is Today."

🕯️ Blessed Marie-Eugène of the Child Jesus insists that Mary’s role in the life of grace is never distant or abstract. Her presence is real, personal, and marked by true contact with the soul. 🔗 https://twp.ai/ImuOnd #BlessedMarieEugene #MarianTheology

Blessed Marie-Eugène reflects on Mary’s living presence and her real contact with the soul.

🕯️ At Candlemas, the Virgin Mary reflects on trust, sorrow, and readiness for trial in a pious recreation by Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. 🔗 https://twp.ai/ImuOC1 #PresentationOfTheLord #SaintThereseOfLisieux

🕯️ Pray with us on the feast of Blessed Marie-Eugène of the Child Jesus, the French Discalced Carmelite friar who authored 'I Want to See God' and founded the secular institute Notre Dame de Vie. 🔗 https://twp.ai/ImuOVr #BlessedMarieEugene #NotreDameDeVie

✡️ We recall that on this date in 1944, the three Jewish boys whom Père Jacques sheltered at the Carmelite boarding school—Jacques Halpern, Maurice Schlosser, and Hans-Helmut Michel—were deported to Auschwitz. 🔗 https://twp.ai/Imu8yZ #HolocaustMemory #NeverForget

Join us to celebrate the feast day of Blessed Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus: priest, peacemaker, author and founder.

Read a brief but uncompromising call to holiness from Servant of God Père Jacques de Jésus.

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🕯️ After mastering the catechism and missal, Edith Stein asked a parish priest, “Please, your reverence, test my knowledge.” Astonished by the evident work of grace in her, she was confirmed by the Bishop of Speyer on February 2, 1922. 🔗 https://twp.ai/Imu9q9 #EdithStein #CatholicHistory

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🕯️ Simeon’s prophecy speaks of contradiction and sorrow — yet Mary walks forward in hope. Blessed Marie-Eugène reflects on how Mary receives this word, shares in her Son’s mission, and carries hope into every horizon of her life. 🔗 https://twp.ai/ImuB6M #Hope #PresentationOfTheLord