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Saint Teresa's
Carmelites
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Mission Statement |
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The Carmelite
Study Group's aim is to explore ways of improving members' prayer life through
the teachings of the Carmelite saints, particularly our parish patron, St.
Therese of Lisieux, and the great teachers of prayer and doctors of the Church,
John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila. |
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Upcoming Dates Sunday, March 14th Sunday, April 11th The group meets every 2nd Sunday of the month at 10 a.m. in the parish's Blessed John XXIII center just off the main school yard at the corner of Slosson Avenue and Windsor Road, Castleton Corners. These meetings, led by St. Teresa parishioners Eileen and Ed Donnelly, members of the New York City chapter of the Carmelite secular order, include the offering of Morning Prayer, and last about an hour.
For more information, the
Donnellys can be reached by
telephone at 718-448-9716, or by
e-mail at
ejdon1@aol.com
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Knowing St. Teresa
9/30/2007- Saint Teresa of
the Infant Jesus (pdf)10/14/2007 - The "Other"
Saint Teresa (pdf) Advent 2007 Reflections
First
Sunday of Advent Lent 2008 Reflections
First Sunday of Lent |
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Thoughts from St. Therese “It is no longer a question of loving one’s neighbor as oneself but of loving him as He, Jesus, has loved him, and will love him to the consummation of the ages. Ah! Lord, I know you don’t command the impossible… You know very well that never would I be able to love my Sisters as You love them, unless You, O my Jesus, loved them in me… Oh! How I love this new commandment since it gives me assurance that Your Will is to love in me all those You command me to love.” “My union with Jesus was effected not in the midst of thunder and lightning, that is, in extraordinary graces, but in the bosom of a light breeze similar to the one our Father St. Elijah heard on the Mount (Carmel)… I offered myself to Jesus in order to accomplish His will perfectly in me.” “Jesus teaches me not to count up my acts. He teaches me to do all things through love… But this is done in peace, in abandonment, it is Jesus who is doing all in me, and I am doing nothing.”
“When you find suffering sweet and when you love
it for the love of Jesus Christ, you will have
found paradise on earth. This paradise is really
that of the missionary and the Carmelite; the
joy that worldlings seek in the midst of
pleasures is only a fleeting shadow, but our joy
sought and tested in works and sufferings is a
very sweet reality, a foretaste of the happiness
of heaven.” |
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