November 14th
Feast of all saints
of carmel.
On
November 14th the Carmelites celebrate the feast of all
“SAINTS OF CARMEL”. In this blog we wish to share
short life histories and specially the spiritualities of the SAINTS OF CARMEL.
Excerpts from the writing s of St. Teresa of Avila has already been posted –
and will be continued – as well as quotations from the Letters of the recently
canonized St. Elizabeth of the Trinity. The best known and loved among the
SAINTS OF CARMEL is St. Therese of Lisieux also known as the Little Flower. St.
Teresa Margaret Redi, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, St. Mary of Jesus
Crucified and St. Teresa of Los Andes … most of these Saints of Carmel are our own contemporaries. In their short span of
lives, these Saints of Carmel lived simple lives which all of us can
easily imitate. Yet they reached intimate union and transformation in God by
doing just little things with great love and total gift of themselves to God.
St.
John of the Cross and St. Raphael Kalinowski are the 2 canonized men saints of
Carmel. Among the saints of Carmel
can also be included the parents of St. Therese, Zelie and Loius Martin, the
first couple to be canonized.
MAY ALL THE SAINTS OF CARMEL INTERCEDE FOR US
AND HELP US TO REACH THE HEIGHTS OF PERFECTION WHICH THEY HAVE ALREADY
ATTAINED.
