#carmelites

[journey2carmel]

If anyone is seeking God, the Beloved is seeking that person much more.

St. John of the Cross, 1991. The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross. Translated by K. Kavanaugh and O. Rodriguez. 3rd ed. Washington, DC: ICS Publications, p. 683.

[historian-in-pearls]

I've spent a long time reading about Dominican spirituality and trying to discern becoming a third order/lay Dominican, but now I'm feeling a pull that the Carmelites might be a better fit. I'm going to read and pray and see. Please pray for me, if you will!

[reality-nihilism]

A veiled Carmelite nun.

[srhelena-ofmary]

On July 16, 2026, the Carmelite Order celebrates the Solemnity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. We begin honoring Mary, Mother and Queen of Carmel with a nine-day novena that you can do privately beginning on July 7-15. The link to the novena is found on our website below. . On July 15, at 4:00 pm, the Sisters will pray a sung Evening Prayer I in their chapel and on July 16, Holy Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 am in their Chapel. #OLMC #carmelites

[jjimjil-bang]

how is this not margiela

(it's clothes of the cloistered carmelite nuns)

[koko-mochi]

Yeeeeeeeah I get the feeling you're gonna be seeing more of this nun.

[portraitsofsaints]

Happy Feast Day

Feast Day: November 8

Patronage: sick people, loss of parents

Elizabeth of the Trinity, born Élisabeth Catez was a French Carmelite nun and religious writer. Elizabeth entered the Dijon Carmel on August 2, 1901. She said, "I find Him everywhere while doing the wash as well as while praying." Her time in the Carmel had some high times as well as some very low times. Today, we know about all that she felt and experienced in her writings. Elizabeth died at the age of 26 from Addison's disease, which in the early 20th century had no treatment.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase.(website)

[cruger2984]

THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT TERESA OF THE ANDES (Teresa of Jesus of Los Andes) The First Chilean-born Saint Feast Day: April 12

"God is my heaven here below. I live with him. Even when I am walking, we speak together without being interrupted by anyone."

Teresa of the Andes was born Juana Enriqueta Josefina de Los Sagrados Corazones Fernández Solar, on July 13, 1900 in Santiago, Chile. Educated in the faith by her parents from an early age, she had a precocious inclination towards prayer and doing good.

In 1907, she became an external student at the school run by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart. On September 11, 1910 she made her first communion. This was a decisive day for her, which caused her to live in an increasingly deeper friendship with Jesus.

From a wealthy family, she treated the employees of the home with unusual affection, worrying about teaching them catechism and the material needs of the poor of their lands. Her father, Miguel Fernández Jara, managed his property with little success, losing a large part of his fortune, which created not a little tension in his marriage. In addition, her brother Lucho gave up his faith and Miguel led a rather Bohemian life. In the midst of these family difficulties, she was the angel who watched over all.

When she was 15 years old, she declared that Christ captivated her. Shortly after, she became a boarder in college, something which caused great pain: she ended up saying, 'boarding would reduce me to ashes.'

She came to the decision to be faithful to her life as a student as a way of surrendering herself to God's will and she made an effort to be an exemplary pupil. Not long after her entry, as a result of conversation with one of her teachers, she began discerning a possible vocation.

When she was 17, she read St. Teresa of Ávila, which moved her to live her prayer as friendship and commitment to others. She also got to know the writings of St. Thérèse of Lisieux and Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity, with whom she felt a great affinity.

She desired also to be God's house and the praise of his glory. She began writing to Mother Angelica, the prioress of the Carmelite nuns in Los Andes in the city of Valparaíso, and raised with the prioress her concerns about a vocation.

A year later, when her sister Lucia married, she left boarding school in order to learn household management and to come out in society. She was a happy young sportswoman who loved the outdoors. She also liked singing and dancing and played croquet and tennis, and an able swimmer and could play the piano and harmonium.

She also taught catechism and gave classes to the children from disadvantaged families and helped the missions.

She had no doubt about her vocation, but she was not sure if she should become a Sister of the Sacred Heart or a Discalced Carmelite. When her mother learned of her vocation, she tried to test it in various ways to dissuade her, but was surprised at the sweetness and equilibrium with which she reacted. On January 11, she met the Carmelite nuns' community and all her doubts disappeared, as she was captivated by the sisters' simplicity, familiarity in relating, and spontaneity.

When her family became aware of the news, her brothers tried to dissuade her, but her parents gave their permission. She entered Carmel on May 7, 1919, changing her name to Teresa of Jesus, and later received the habit on October 14. There, she came to know the writings of St. John of the Cross, which assisted her prayer to mature.

She carried on a real apostolate with her letters to family members and friends, urging them to become friends with God, to be happy and have gratitude. They are letters written with a great deal of affection and understanding. These and her Diaries remain as legacies of her spirituality.

Toward the end of her short life the new nun began an apostolate of letter-writing in which she shared her thoughts on the spiritual life with others. But she soon contracted typhus that was diagnosed as fatal. However, some historians have suggested that she might have contracted Spanish flu, which was devastating Chile at this time.

In any case, her condition grew worse on Good Friday - April 2, 1920.

Teresa was still three months short of turning 20 and had six months to complete her canonical novitiate so as to make her religious vows. But she nevertheless was allowed to profess her vows 'in articulo mortis' ('facing death') on April 7, 1920. Teresa received the final sacraments on April 5, 1920 and later died at 7:15pm on April 12, 1920, one week after Easter at the age of 19 at Los Andes, Valparaíso. Her remains were later relocated in 1940 to a new chapel.

Beatified by Pope John Paul II at O'Higgins Park on April 3, 1987, she is canonized by the same pope at the Vatican on March 21, 1993.

Known as the 'Flower of the Andes,' Teresa of the Andes remains popular with the estimated 100,000 pilgrims who visit her shrine in Los Andes each year.

Her life was used for a Chilean television miniseries spanning from 6 August until 10 September 1989 starring Paulina Urrutia, an actress who will later go on to become a politician as the minister of the National Council of Culture and the Arts of Chile under the presidency of Michelle Bachelet.