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Winter Walks

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Outside Yokneam on Mt. Carmel (OC)

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On July 16, the Church celebrates the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

Mount Carmel is the mountain in the middle of the plain of Galilee where the prophet Elijah called down a miracle of fire from the Lord to show the people of Israel who had strayed that "The Lord is God!" and that the prophets of Baal were worshipping a false god.

There is a tradition that traces the Carmelite Order's informal beginnings to the prophet Elijah himself, even though there is no evidence of this.

The formal beginnings are attributed to a group of monks who, in the 13th century, began living and praying on the mountain.

They venerated the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Mount Carmel. From this veneration was derived the name Carmelite.

On 30 January 1226, the rule of the order was approved by Pope Honorius III.

21 years later, St. Simon Stock, an Englishman, was elected superior of the order.

On 16 July 1251, the Blessed Virgin appeared to Simon and gave him the brown scapular. She promised him protection to all those who wear the brown habit.

Pope Pius X decreed in the early 20th century that this blessing of the Blessed Virgin would extend to all who wear the medal of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was instituted by the Carmelites sometime between 1376 and 1386.

[dramoor]

“If you think to find paradise on earth, even in a monastery, then you are very mistaken. Paradise—full blessedness—does not exist on earth, and cannot, because man was not created for earth, but for heaven.”

~Abbess Thaisia of Leushino

(Photo © dramoor 2019 Stella Maris Monastery, Mt. Carmel - Haifa, Israel)

[wisdomfish]

Subjective truth grounded in verifiable objective truth...

Fundamental to the entire biblical revelation are the twin convictions that subjective truth is grounded in and verifiable through objective truth, and that the eternal has been made manifest in the temporal.

Consider such prominent Old Testament events as Gideon and the fleece (Judges 6) and Elijah on Mount Carmel (I Kings 18). Gideon, realizing how easy it is to deceive oneself in matters of subjective religious assurance, asks an objective sign from God by which he can know that the Lord will deliver Israel from her enemies. God willingly complies, not once but twice: first, dew falls on Gideon's fleece but not on the surrounding ground; second, dew falls on the ground but not on the fleece. The point? Gideon, like any spatio-temporally bound member of the human race, was incapable of knowing by subjective, existential immediacy that the voice within him was God's voice; yet he had to know, for the lives of others as well as his own safety depended upon his ability to make a true religious judgment. In this quandary, God provided Gideon with external evidence -in concrete, empirical terms-showing that it was indeed He who spoke within Gideon's heart.

Elijah was faced with a common religious problem-one which existential immediacy is totally unable to solve. This is the problem of conflicting religious claims. The "false prophets" said one thing to the people; Elijah said another. How were the people to know who was proclaiming God aright and who was the idolater? An objective test was the only way of ridding the situation of endless confusion and meaningless claims. So Elijah gave the false prophets the opportunity to demonstrate the "reality" of their God through his ability to perform an act of divine power on earth. The inability of the false prophets' truth-claim to hold up under such a test, when coupled with Yahweh's positive response to the identical test, provided the needed ground for belief in the true God.

~ John Warwick Montgomery, The Suicide of Christian Theology, 342-343

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The Mountaineer Restaurant - Mt. Carmel, Tennessee

U.S. Hwy 11W. Knoxville Hwy. Mt. Carmel, Tennessee 37662 At Kingsport City Limits Steaks - Hillbilly Fried Chicken - Seafood - Mr. and Mrs. Clarence F.D. Painter Owners and Operators Forrester-Smith 113433

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Apartment building on Mt. Carmel (OC).

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Coming down Mt. Carmel (OC)