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Today we recall the beatification of Madame Acarie on June 5, 1791, in Rome, at a liturgy presided over by Pope Pius VI.

“I offer you, my God, my aforementioned will, which I no longer wish to act upon or follow, but to hand over entirely to yours, so that I may no longer have any will of my own at all. I offer myself to will and carry out everything t...


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On a dark night
Kindled in love with yearnings—
Oh, happy chance!—
I went forth unobserved,
My house being now at rest.

— St. John of the Cross

How does one hush one’s house,
each proud possessive wall, each sighing rafter,
the rooms made restless with remembered laughter
or wound...


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wind Still very favourable make a deal of advancement. from yesterday 12 till to day 12 made 172 mile. all pretty well. th[i]s Evening the wind Seems to have fallen a little. but hope it will Soon rise again.

Mrs Ramsen call’d in our room to See us & after Looking about her for a while, seeing us at work Said, this Looks like a Sowing School. She brought her wo...


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Don’t forget to pray with the weight of your worries. Suffering is such a powerful prayer! Let your trial detach you from the earth, and, freed, rest in God without trouble or worry. Say over and over to God: “Fiat voluntas tua!”

Servant of God Père Jacques de Jésus

Letter to a friend, 29 September 1936


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In giving thanks to God—together with all of you, beginning with the Most Eminent and Venerable Brother Archbishop Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe—for the great gift to the Church of Naples, the new Blessed Mary Josephine of Jesus Crucified, Thomas Merton’s reflection comes to mind. He stated: “There is no member of the Church who does not owe something to Carmel,” which fi...


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