Beauty of Silence

The older I grow the more I see the value of silence. There may be a time to speak but it is so difficult to know when to speak and what to say. In the silence of our heart, God speaks and from the fullness of our hearts we speak. I walk down the valley of silence, down the dim, voiceless valley- alone.

And I hear not the fall of a footstep  around me,

 Save God’s and my own,

And the bush of my heart is as holy

As hovers where angels have flown

Do you ask me the place of the valley?

Ye hearts that are harrowed by care

It lies afar, between mountains

And God and His angels are there.

Do good works silently

Do your duty silently

Be happy with others silently

Conceal another’s faults silently

Wish and aspire secretly and silently

Embrace the cross of Jesus silently

Look towards heaven silently

Attain virtues silently

Persevere until death silently.

The wisest retort is often said silently. Another nice thing about silence is that it can‘t be repeated. Most of us know how to say nothing; few of us know when to say something.

 Silence is golden.

FORGIVENESS

Stay away from Anger, it only hurts YOU

 If you are right then there is no need to get ANGRY

 And if you are wrong then you don’t have any right to get ANGRY

 Patience with all is LOVE, Patience with others is RESPECT

Patience with self is CONFIDENCE and Patience with God is FAITH

Never think hard about the PAST, it brings TEARS

Don’t think more about the FUTURE, it brings FEAR

Live this moment with a SMILE, it brings CHEER

Every TEST in our life MAKES us BITTER or BETTER

Every PROBLEM comes, to MAKE us or BREAK us

The choice is ours whether we become VICTIMS or VICTORS.

Where God is born, hope is born;

May the joy of this day illumine our Church, our world, our families so that inspired by hope

we may continue our commitment to be JESUS in our frail and fragile world

where our loving God made Himself  frail and fragile in order

to share with us the face of His ABBA’s mercy.

This Christmas may we receive this gift from the Divine Babe

and be His heart in our world today.

Holding you and all your dear ones close to the beating Heart of the new born Babe.

May you stay blessed and be a blessing to all in the coming year 2019

 WISHING ONE AND ALL

A HAPPY GRACE FILLED NEW YEAR

LITTLE JESUS IN THE MANGER

Little Jesus in the manger

Lying in peace and joy

Amidst the cattle with your Mother,

You are her Baby Boy

Look at me here in cold severe

Coming to adore You.

With the shepherds and animals

Worship and praise Your due.

Your gentle smile shines all the while

Calling me to come near

Simple creatures whose life preaches

They are to you most dear.

Sleep gentle Babe, Divine Infant

Enter in my poor heart

There take Your seat, Jesus most sweet

Never from me depart.

Angels from your realms of glory

Wing your flight over the earth

You who sang creation’s glory

Now proclaim Jesus’ birth.

Shepherds in the field abiding

Watching the flocks by night

God with man is now residing

See, the stars’ wondrous light.

O Blessed Babe, in manger stall

O Child of Love and Light

O Holy Son sent from above

Sleep peacefully tonight.

Shine brightly star of Bethlehem

So that all men may see

The King whose love will rule the world

Throughout eternity.

Sr.Therese Marie known as Diljyothi  Mariet D’Cunha was born on 9^th November  1979 to Marcel & Irene D’Cunha a pious family of Kulshekar, Mangalore. Being the only girl child in the family, she was loved by her parents & two brothers very much. After her education (12^th standard & secretary course) she moved to Mumbai to her aunty’s place & secured a job there. After some years of experience she went to Dubai where she worked for ten years. She was happy with her job, surrounded by friends & relatives enjoying life until 2014.         To know the will of God for her future, she started to say Divine Mercy prayer.  So one day a sudden inner voice (locution) “bithorlyo madri” resounded in her heart which her mom told her few years back. Beginning she got little puzzled to think of that. But something prompted her to go-ahead & speak to her mom about this. So she asked to mom to inquire & to find out whether nuns will accept her. When she got the positive reply she herself began to contact Mother Prioress over the phone.  After 6 months during her vacation when she came to Mangalore she met the Prioress personally who told her to come for a ‘come & see’ programme for 3 months. So she went back resigned the job & came to Carmel & stayed for 3 months.

She joined as postulant on 3^rd January 2016; on 9^th November 2016 she received the habit of Our Lady of Mount Carmel & was given the name Sr. Therese Marie of the Divine Mercy. After two years of Noviciate Sr. Therese Marie made her FIRST PROFESSION on 9^th November 2018. 

She is happy in Carmel & totally given to God.  Here we quote her own words: “Truly speaking I had no natural attraction for Carmel.  But God in His own time through his power put in my heart love for solitude, silence, detachment & love for prayer which are really helping me to live in Carmel & when I experience suffering & pain I feel there is a kind of special grace of consolation which I have never experienced when I was out.’

Do keep her in your prayer & many more may be inspired to give themselves totally to God.

Sr. Mary Imelda                                                                                                                                      Cloistered Carmel                                                                                                                                                     Mangalore

                                                                                           

St. Teresa of Jesus (1515-1582), one of the great Christian mystics, was moved by a vision of hell which she experienced in 1560, to do and undertake  everything in her power for the salvation of those who were heading for hell.

 “From this experience also flow the great impulses to save souls and the extraordinary pain that is caused me by the many who are condemned (especially the Lutherans, for they were through baptism members of the church) it seems certain to me that to free one alone from such appalling torments, I would suffer many deaths very willingly”  (Life32:6)

Prayer and penance were the weapons she believed with which she would embark  on her mission. First, she would keep the rule of her order with utmost perfection. Teresa realized quickly enough that she would need to gather around her generous persons with whom she would share her project of saving as many souls as possible from the dreadful torments that she had glimpsed.

On 24th  August 1562, the first Teresian Cloistered Carmel was ready for inauguration, and received its charter in the WAY OF PERFECTION, where we read “ news reached me of …. The havoc the Lutherans had caused ….the news distressed me greatly, and as though I were something , or could do something , I cried to the Lord …. That I might remedy so much evil . I resolve to do the little that was in my power, that is, to follow the evangelical counsels as perfectly as I could and to strive that these few persons who are here might do the same.” (WAY OF PERFECTION.)

The Holy Spirit aroused many precious persons to surrender themselves to this ideal of rescuing as many people as possible from the power of darkness. Teresa herself was to make 16 more foundations in Spain .

This holy flame enkindled by the Holy Spirit through Teresa, spread to India via Pondicherry and Mangalore in the 19th century ,  and today in the 21st century there are  in India more than 30 Teresian Cloistered Carmels, where the daughters of St. Teresa are unceasingly offering their lives and immolating themselves in union with the sacrifice of Christ for the salvation of India and the world.

In February 2018 the Prioresses of all the Carmels in India gathered in Hydrabad along with Father General, Very Rev. Saverio Cannistra o.c.d and our Definitor General Rev. Fr. Johannes Gorantla o.c.d. to study the new document

COR ORANS, from the Holy See

                             (The 2 photos were taken during that Meeting.)                                                                  

 PRAYER IS…

Prayer is PRIVILEGE –

An unmerited gift of God

And an essential part

Of my relationship with the Word

Prayer is RELATIONSHIP –

A bond that daily grows;

An unfathomable encounter

With the One who loves me and knows

Prayer is CONVERSATION –

With Him who cherished me

In whose company

I constantly want to be.

Prayer is OPPORTUNITY-

To communicate everyday

To read His Word, to learn His will

To love Him and with Him stay.

Prayer is LOVE-

That redeems my soul

An offering on the cross

Where with Him I play my role.

Prayer is INTIMACY-

A secret delight in His will

Welcoming what He sends me

Joy or sorrow, good or ill.

Prayer is LISTENING-

To His voice in stillness

The power that builds me

In moments of weakness.

Prayer is YIELDING –

A surrender, joyful and free;

It is the pathway

Of blessings to me.

Prayer is LIVING-

A life that is true;

Striving to please Him

In all that I do.

Prayer is HOPE-

That replaces despair

A filling with His joy and peace

His love and His care.

Prayer is CALMNESS –

Amid the world’s loud roar

A life that like a river flows

Along a peaceful shore.

Prayer is a simple GAZE –

Fixed on Jesus and nothing beside

Seeing Him in spirit’s vision

Looking at the Crucufied.

Prayer is COMFORT –

When trials assail

His transforming renewal

When I stumble and fail.

Prayer is a CHALLENGE –

To give Him my all –

A deep yearning of my heart

So weak, so small!

Prayer is STRENGTH –

In His all sufficiency

Letting Him work through me

And His great power see.

Prayer is POWER –

The strength of my soul

A divine remedy

That makes me whole.

Prayer is SEEING AND TOUCHING

God everywhere

And discerning His gifts

Who causes me to share.

Prayer is GOD’S PRESENCE

With me wherever I go

‘Tis He accompanying me

As I travel here below.

Prayer is WORSHIP –

Of Him who made us all

Joining my voice in song and praise

Grateful for the gift of His call.