Priests…Have we forgotten them?

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 [...]

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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 merits and [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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) [...]

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The Marvels of Divine Union in The Last Mansions 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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