How Does One Pray?
Prayer is as varied as the person doing the prayer. There are many forms and formulas of prayers but they acquire distinct differences because people and souls are different. What is prayer? How does one [...]
DEAD ENDS!
"Dead End." This is the last thing I would want to see when I'm trying to find my way to a destination. It awakens a host of negative feelings inside me: disappointment over all the [...]
The Glorious Saint Joseph
By Sr. Helena of Mary Devotion to St. Joseph was a hallmark of St. Teresa of Avila. Teresa attributed her miraculous cure to Saint Joseph. When she was living in the Incarnation Convent in [...]
Our Lenten Journey
By Sister Helena of Mary, O.Carm. In our Catholic liturgical calendar, the Lenten season opened with Ash Wednesday. I have never been to a desert. I have never seen one. I don’t believe this [...]
Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity
By Sr. Helena of Mary Feast Day: November 8 The Carmelite Order celebrates the feast of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity on November 8th. Elizabeth was a beautiful soul who tasted the delights of contemplating God [...]
Sr. Eulaliae George, O.Carm.
“In response to what makes me a daughter of St. Teresa of Avila, I would say it is her genuine sense of being fully human and alive. She tells me by some of her quips [...]