In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear. (Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, +1897)
Day: July 16, 2024
The Significance of July 16
Some days have more ‘history’ to them than others, today’s July 16th being one of them. As I just wrote, it is the memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and the vision to Saint Simon Stock of the scapular in 1251. As though to corroborate that, this was also the last of 18 appearances[…]
Saint Simon Stock and the Scapular
Saint Simon Stock (1165-1265) was an English Carmelite, who helped establish the ancient contemplative Order in England and Italy, founding monasteries in Cambridge, Oxford, and Bologna. He organized the first Chapter of the Carmelites outside the Holy Land, at Aylesford, in Kent, in 1247, where there is still a Carmel to this day. The origins[…]
The Much Treasured Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
The feast of Mount Carmel is one that means much to me personally, with many fond memories in my childhood and adulthood where Our Lady of Mount Carmel has always been magnificently present. To begin with, when I was a child I used to go to the fields of my late uncle Felix at Santa[…]