Elizabeth of the Big Feet - Teen Years

Elizabeth Of The Big Feet: Teen years
Jennifer Moorecroft

Elizabeth had gone as far as she could with her piano studies at the Dijon Conservatory; if she wanted to continue, she would need to go to the Paris Conservatory.  It was decided that she would stay in Dijon and take a further two years of harmony [...]

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The Carmel Clarion is going to focus on the life and writings of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity. So the following article will be the first installment seeking to gain a better understanding of the way she lived the history of the indwelling of the Trinity in her life, as well as the heavenly mission [...]

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Priests…Have we forgotten them?
What has happened? Why is the priesthood in such turmoil? Is it because we have tried to mold priests into something we want instead of allowing them to be what we need or most importantly what they have been called to be?
It seems as though the dignity of the priesthood has been [...]

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SCAPULAR
scapular (Latin: scapula, shoulder-blade)
A sacramental worn as a badge of a religious confraternity. It consists of two pieces of cloth, one of which is worn on the breast and the other on the back, with bands or strings passing over the shoulders. A scapular gives its wearer a share in the [...]

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The Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne

taken from the Caramel Clarion March - April issue of 2004
by Father Phelim, OCD
Carmelite foundation

The community of Carmelite nuns at Compiegne had been established and 1641.  It was a daughter house of the monastery of Amiens.  The community flourished and was renowned for its fervor and fidelity to the [...]

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The teaching of the Roman Catholic Church on the subject of ‘Abortion” has been on the minds of many Catholics and non-Catholics, particularly over the past 35 years. Some find it abhorrent, as does Our Father in Heaven, and some say,”eh, whatever”.
The Church teaches that ‘life’ is precious from the moment of conception to the [...]

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In the wake of our recent election has it dawned on the Catholics who voted for Barak Obama what they have done, and, what they may have unleashed?
President-elect Obama promised the Planned Parenthood Organization that he would, as president, sign into law the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). This was public knowledge and not hidden [...]

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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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This selection from the Benedictine Monks of Clairval is from August 15, 2004, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Venerable Matt Talbot
In a street in Dublin, the morning of Trinity Sunday, June 7, 1925, a man who was making his way to a nearby church suddenly collapsed, dead. His body was taken [...]

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from the Carmel Clarion, September-October 2004
Eight days after her entrance into Carmel, Elizabeth was filling out a form in which among other things she was asked what her favorite book was. Curiously she answered, “The soul of Christ. In it I discovered all the secrets of the Father who is in heaven.” (NI 12) This [...]

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