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Elizabeth of the Trinity and Saint Paul

on November 6th, 2008 by admin

November 8th is the Memorial of Elizabeth of the Trinity and this article is meant to give more insight of the spiritual side of Elizabeth through the reading and teachings of Saint Paul.

Carmel Clarion September-October 2004
by Francisco Brandle
Eight days after her entrance into Carmel, Elizabeth was filling out a form in which among other things she [...]

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Sr. Mary Faustina Kowalska - from the Abbeye Sainte Joseph de Clairval

on October 5th, 2008 by admin

This article is from the June 6, 1997 edition of the Letters from the Monks of Abbeye Sainte Joseph de Clairval
Canonized April 30, 2000
An Austere Education
On August 25, 1905, in Glogow (Poland), a daughter was born at the home of the Kowalska couple, the third child in a family that will number ten children. At [...]

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The Marvels of Divine Union in The Last Mansions

on September 26th, 2008 by admin

Taken from the September-October Issue 2006
of the Carmel Clarion
by Philip Boyce, OCD
Part I.
The thought of describing the marvels of God’s union with the purified soul at the summit of the way of perfection makes even saints, who have experiential knowledge of what they would relate, have their misgivings and express their reluctance. If the experience [...]

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Temptation and Spiritual Discernment in Ignatius of Loyola and John of the Cross

on September 20th, 2008 by admin

Temptation and Spiritual Discernment
in Ignatius of Loyola
and John of the Cross

by Segundo Galilea
The practice of discernment is as old as Christian spirituality. To discern is to distinguish between good and evil in order to choose the good. It is to identify the will of God in order to follow it. In this sense discernment is [...]

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