🌿 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)

St John Fisher, bishop, executed 22 June 1535, Made by Pietro Torrigiano c. 1510–15 (Met Museum)

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🕯️ Prayer is not an escape from the world. Bishop Silvio José Báez, OCD, reminds us that what Jesus whispers in prayer must become a courageous witness in the light. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSWe5D #Prayer #Catholic

🕯️ Saint Edith Stein felt the weight of preparing Potency and Act for publication, a great task connecting phenomenology and St. Thomas Aquinas. When her courage was crushed, she recovered it before the tabernacle. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSWgsl #Aquinas #EdithStein

Saint Edith Stein finds courage before the tabernacle when her strength fails.

Blessed Feast of Saints John Fisher and Saint Thomas More 🙏🏽

Monday 21 June, Dublin

🌲 Saint John of the Cross gives five brief sayings for the soul’s journey: silence, trials, humility, the cross, and courage in confessing Christ. 🔗https://twp.ai/NSWi46 #Carmelite #Catholic

🕊️ Bishop Silvio José Báez, OCD, reflects on Jesus’ command, “Do not fear.” Faith is not an insurance policy against life’s stumbling blocks, but the trust that sustains us in the Father’s loving care. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSWhgK #Catholic #Nicaragua

Bishop Silvio José Báez, OCD, on Jesus’ command, “Do not fear,” and the faith that sustains us.

🕊️ On June 22, we give thanks for the holiness of Venerable Maria Lucia and her witness to a heart kept for God alone. Join the Carmelites in praying for her beatification. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSWjW5 #Fatima #Carmelite

On June 22, we give thanks to God for the holiness of Venerable Maria Lucia.

A little after lunch sweetness - with a food transport distance of less than 2 metres

Sunday 21 June, Dublin

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🕊️ Saint Teresa of Avila reminds us that love begins with knowing the Lord. Christ’s glance is gentle mercy for the soul that turns back to Him while there is still time. 🔗https://twp.ai/NSWUXS #CarmeliteSaints #Catholic

🕊️ Saint John of the Cross reminds anxious hearts that worry can multiply our needs, while trust returns us to the Lord who sustains us. “The Lord who gives the highest will not fail to give the least.” 🔗https://twp.ai/NSWkBx #Catholic #Prayer

Saturday afternoon, Dublin

Saint Teresa of Avila on Christ’s loving glance, final judgment, and mercy while we live.

🧡 Saint Edith Stein reminds us that listening across generations requires humility. We learn from the opinions of our elders when we listen without prejudice, and even more from their experience. 🔗https://twp.ai/NSWXV4 #SaintEdithStein #CarmeliteSaints

🏠 “You can feel good anywhere, but in your own home you feel better.” St. Raphael Kalinowski reminds us that the Church is our second home, not merely somewhere to go on Sundays. Let's pray for those who choose to cut themselves off from the Church. 🔗https://twp.ai/NSWVC2 #Catholic #Carmelite

Saint Edith Stein on listening, honest discernment, and the danger of pharisaism.

Thursday 18 June, Kilbride, Wexford

🕊️ Carmelite poet Jessica Powers teaches us to listen, surrender the need for a map, and let the soul be turned “like a wandering weather vane toward love.” 🔗https://twp.ai/NSWX99 #HolySpirit #JessicaPowers

🕯️ On this day in 1942, Saint Titus Brandsma arrived at Dachau. The Carmelite fidelity formed in priory life went with him there: prayer, obedience, community, and little things done with greatness. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSWa9H #Carmelite #Dachau

On this day in 1942, Saint Titus Brandsma arrived at Dachau, still faithful in little things.

Battlestown, Wexford

More wild strawberries

Clonlard, Wexford

🕯️ On the anniversary of Léonie Martin’s death, one of her final family exchanges gives us tenderness, wartime poverty, and Christian hope in the face of death. 🔗https://twp.ai/NSWZxi #Catholic #Carmelite