Topic:  Carmelite Prayer - Source of Energy - School of Life

Date:  July 6-8, 2007

Location: Palmer House Hilton Hotel - Chicago, Illinois

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"Blessed are the pure of heart for they shall see God.” Since Purity of heart is a dispositon of the heart, Augustine sees that the starting place to obtaining this virtue is taking a closer look at one’s own heart. What you want to see is pure, what you want to see it with is impure. God alone is pure, one cannot hope to see God with an impure heart.*

What are the hindrances that block your heart’s clear perception of God? During this lenten season, pay special attention to the purity of your intention in your thoughts, words and actions.

 *Essay on Purity of Heart in Saint Augustine by Gertrude Gillette, O.S.B.

May Lent be for every Christian a renewed experience of God’s love given to us in Christ, a love that each day we, in turn, must “regive” to our neighbour, especially to the one who suffers most and is in need. Only in this way will we be able to participate fully in the joy of Easter.

I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”  John 13:34-35

Where: Ignatius Jesuit Retreat House

Date:  January 26,27,28th 2007 arrival time 5:00PM

Topic: Prayer “Carmelite Life - By Day and By Night” presented by Father Raymond Maher, O.Carm.

Love doesn’t exist — as we like to think — in the degree to which we are happy.  No.  Love exists in the strength of our determination to try to please God in everything that we do, each and every day.  The important thing is not to think much but to love much.  So start doing whatever most stirs you to love.
   - Teresa of Avila, Interior Castle

Please view the site on Citoc http://carmelites.info/general_chapter/  and pray to the Holy Spirit for the success of this important Chapter.

I received this prayer from a Cloistered Carmelite nun in Christoval, Texas.

“O Virgin Mother, let me share your consciousness of Christ, that like you I be lovingly aware of HIm all day. O Mother, how I wish I could give Christ the love you gave Him. May I see Jesus through your eyes and love him through your heart, being one with Him in mind and will, that He may mean to me that deep, abiding peace of soul His Presence meant to you.”

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