🇺🇸 On July 4, 1790, the first Carmelite nuns in America sailed from New York toward Maryland. Their foundress wrote the date simply. A later historian saw Our Lady’s care guiding Carmel’s voyage to America. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSYB3C #Carmelite #UShistory #FourthOfJuly

The first Carmelite nuns in America sailed toward Maryland on July 4, 1790, under Mary’s care.

✝️ Saint Thomas reached toward the risen Christ. Saint John of the Cross warns that the soul must not cling to touching, seeing, visions, or revelations, but walk by faith toward union with God. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSYDaY #Carmelite #Faith

Saint John of the Cross on Saint Thomas, sensory signs, and the freedom of faith.

Saint Titus Brandsma's 1936 North American lecture on contemplative prayer as the hidden strength of Carmel’s apostolate.

This is America 👇 #USWorldCupTeam ✊

"God desires the least degree of obedience and submissiveness more than all those services you think of rendering him" (Saint John of the Cross).

Thursday 2 July, Woking, Surrey

🌹 Saint Thérèse teaches that humility is truth: to see our weakness clearly, without discouragement, and to rejoice in being little before God. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSYEIo #StTherese #Carmelite

🔥 Saint Titus Brandsma teaches that Carmel’s hidden prayer is not a retreat from the Church’s mission, but its deep source of strength. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSYH63 #Carmelite #Prayer

✝️ Saint Teresa of the Andes shows what happens when prayer before Christ crucified becomes concrete charity. She weeps before the Cross, remembers how much Christ has loved her, then thinks of Juanito, a poor child she cared for. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSWuUH #Catholic #Carmelite

We need more of this #Compassion ❤️

💧 Bishop Silvio José Báez, OCD, reflects on Matthew 10:42 and the immense value of small acts done with love. Even a cup of cold water can become a sign of God’s compassion. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSWwgs #Catholic #Gospel

Bishop Silvio José Báez, OCD, sees the whole gospel in a cup of cool water given in love.

Spot on @pxmolina.bsky.social 🔥 "I lift my lamp beside the golden shore" #immigration #humandignity This is a gift link social.tinyview.com/ZbSv7MMhn4b

🌿 For Saint Edith Stein, surrender to God is not the narrowing of the soul but its full flowering. The human vocation is fulfilled in loving abandonment, obedient service, and union with God who is love. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSWzAX #CarmeliteSaints #Catholic

Saint Edith Stein on surrender to God as the fulfillment of the human vocation

Plan of the Château and Gardens of St. Germain-en-Laye. c.1670. So pretty much as the exile court of James II would have known it (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

Sunday 28 June, Dublin

Monday 29 June, London

🕯️ Saint John of the Cross teaches that the soul remembers forgiven sin not for shame, but for humility, thanksgiving, and greater confidence in the Beloved. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSWz9V #Carmelite #Prayer

✝️ Saint John of the Cross teaches that God has spoken everything in Christ, the Father’s one Word. The soul does not need novelties, but faith fixed wholly on the Son. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSX1Sf #Carmelite #SaintJohnOfTheCross #SaintPaul

Saint John of the Cross teaches that God has spoken fully and definitively in Christ.

Do not let your legislatures disenfranchise handicapped and senior voters who rely on absentee ballots!

🎓 Saint Paul VI beholds Saint Teresa of Jesus as contemplative, reformer, writer, and teacher, a woman whose greatness still overflows every simple description. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSX1Oq #Catholic #Carmel

✝️ Saint John of the Cross teaches that the soul learns freedom by resting with Christ crucified, practicing detachment, and walking in love. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSWll3 #Carmelite #CatholicSpirituality

Saint John of the Cross teaches the soul to rest with Christ crucified and walk in love.

💜 Saint Teresa of the Andes teaches the heart where to look: only God can satisfy us. He is truth, unchangeable good, and eternal love. May nothing claim our attention more than Jesus in the tabernacle. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSWoWm #CarmeliteSaints

✝️ Blessed Mary Josephine of Jesus Crucified knew suffering, but she also knew surrender. For her feast day, we read her witness to the divine will that transformed Calvary into Tabor. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSWn4K #Carmelite #Catholic

Saint Teresa of the Andes prays to belong forever to Jesus, her adored Spouse.

🌿 Blessed Mary Josephine of Jesus Crucified Catanea offers a prayer of consecration, abandonment, and trust, asking Jesus to transform even weakness into praise. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSWqi1 #CarmeliteSaints #Prayer

A prayer of consecration, abandonment, and trust from Blessed Mary Josephine Catanea.

We commemorate the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Divine Grace on July 7 in Europe and July 23 on other continents. The Carmelite prayers are available on our blog.

🔥 In the spirit and power of Elijah, Saint John the Baptist prepares the way for Christ. Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, O.C.D., reflects on Elijah, prophecy, and Carmel for the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSWrI2 #Carmelite #StJohnTheBaptist

🧪 Blessed Chiquitunga borrowed the look of a chemistry formula to express her whole vocation: T2OS, “Todo Te Ofrezco, Señor,” “I offer everything to you, Lord.” At age sixteen, her heart was already turning toward total gift. 🔗https://twp.ai/NSWsSr #Catholic #Chemistry

🙏 Today we commemorate Blessed Mary Josephine of Jesus Crucified, a Discalced Carmelite nun from Naples (1894-1948). Pray with us using the Discalced Carmelite prayers available on our blog. 🔗 https://twp.ai/Ilqch4 #Naples #Carmelite #Prayer

Blessed Chiquitunga’s formula “T2OS” meant: "I offer everything to you, Lord."

Weds 24 June, Dublin

24 June 1497: Having left #Bristol on 20 May 1497 John Cabot sights land #otd (Newfoundland).

24 June: Feast #otd of the birth of St. John the Baptist - this exquisite image is by Carlo Crivelli c.1430–c.1495 (Ashmolean)

24 June: feast of Bartholomew (Tostig) #Benedictine hermit of #Farne who d. 1193 having lived in St. Cuthbert's old hermitage (photo: AndyF)

🔥 Saint Thérèse writes to Père Adolphe Roulland about prayer, mission, and the fire of divine love. Unable to be a missionary of action, she chose to be “a missionary of love and penance.” 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSWtHk #SaintTherese #CarmeliteWisdom

🐦 Carmelite poet Jessica Powers imagines a small bird as John the Baptist at daybreak, singing creation awake to the coming light. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSWeAZ #JessicaPowers #CarmeliteQuotes

Celebrate #NationalDayOfPink Meaningful in more ways than one 🎀

Carmelite poet Jessica Powers sees a small bird announce the day like John the Baptist preparing the way.

23 June 1661: Marriage contract between Charles II & Catherine of Braganza is formalised #otd (BM) #Portugal

23 June 1681: Hugh O'Duffy #Franciscan informer against Archbishop Oliver Plunkett pardoned #otd for his part in alleged plot, £10 and a pass to return to Ireland. In 1720, he repented - Archbishop MacMahon produced Plunkett's head before absolving him. Nice one.

23 June 1663: John Bramhall former Bishop of #Derry suffers a stroke while attending at the Court of Claims #Dublin Ally of Laud, defender of Church of #England, Archbishop of #Armagh after the Restoration, disputed Hobbes In the 1650s (Sidney Sussex)

23 June 1664: Burial of Katherine Philips ('Orinda') #writer & translator at St Benet Sherehog #London #otd She'd died of smallpox, hence the speed of her interment

23 June 679: d. St Etheldreda (Æthelthryth, Audrey) princess & abbess of #Ely #otd (BL/BM)