August - 2019 News of the Mount Carmel Edition I - France ZELUS ZELATUS SUM PRO DÓMINO DEO EXERCÍTUUM! “Et induxi vos in terram Carmeli ut EDITORIAL comederetis fructum ejus et optima illius” (Jr 2,7) X The Karmel is a monthly editorial where PRESENTATION we can share with you what we have received from the Most High Lord With joy and thanksgiving to God, who loves truth and God! and justice, and to His Blessed Mother, we have, along with this monthly editorial, a simple but sincere apology The Carmelite Nuns of Primitive Observance are for our position and our decision. Next month, we hope a Monastic Community to be able to offer you a new apology, explaining the which follows exclusively reasons why we joined S.E.R. Monsignor Williamson and Catholic doctrine and the the small movement called "Fidelité" or simply Traditional Rite of Holy "Resistance", and all those who oppose the "ralliement" Mass. to modernist Rome. We will meet each month in these brief By sharing with you a little of our life and our reflections and open a spirituality, we hope to involve you in the beautiful little the veil that hides the Carmelite family, as well as the many graces that the true monastic life in the Virgin graciously grants to those who honor as Lady of Church. Mount Carmel! We count on your prayers for our Monastery and make sure you can count on ours! May these pages, with the grace of God, benefit your souls! Sr. Rose Marie de Mother Maria Francisca Saint Joseph Dos Santos Desertos, OCarm (secretaria)
August - 2019 News of the Mount Carmel Edition I - France HOLY ELIAS PROPHET In the beginning… In the beginning God created heaven and earth ... and God made them in his own image and likeness, created them man and woman ... But sin entered the world ... and tried to keep away the human soul from its Creator ... In the plan of salvation, which springs from the Lonely Heart of the Eternal Father, Elijah came into the world, burning with zeal for his God. The Lord chose Mount Carmel in Palestine, so that Elijah would accomplish his feats and show his power. There, he was followed by Elisha and by many others sons of the prophets, with psalms, with songs and instruments of music, to help restore the faith of Israel, the chosen people. To restore the altars of the God of Jacob. And to praise Domina Loci, the Lady of the Place, the Blessed Virgin Mary, who with her presence the Holy Mount adorned. THE BISHOPS Freemasonry, e é a Maçonaria que comanda todos os lugares. If they realize Mosenhor Lefebvre, sermão that we are civilians, perhaps they realize 22 août 1976 that we are a force that can compromise their project, then governments will pursue us. (" Écône, intégrale des sermons" Iris, 2015, p.197-198) "I do not know this conciliar Church, "We will then go to the catacombs, we I only know the Catholic Church, so we will go anywhere, but we will continue to must remain firm on our positions. For believe; We will not abandon our faith. our Faith, we must accept everything, all We will be persecuted, others have been insults: that we are despised, that we are persecuted before us for their faith. We excommunicated, hit, persecuted. will not be the first, but at least we will honor our Lord for being faithful, for not Tomorrow, perhaps, the civil powers forsaking Him, for not betraying Him. will persecute us, it is not excluded. Why? It's what we need to do. ” Because those who are destroying the Church, at present, are doing the work of
August - 2019 News of the Mount Carmel Edition I - France Ago - 2019 Novas do Monte Carmelo Edição I – France Priestly Column THE BEST PART other part is better because it represents the future life … Today glows in our heart the ineffable Exactly because of that, this Gospel brightness of the Morning Star ( Stella applies perfectly to the Feast of the Matutina )! All the creation is contaminated Assumption. Mary, (more than the other by the splendour of The Most Holy Virgin Mary, Martha ´s sister), has chosen to be that, as a luminous ray, goes up to the with the Lord! Today she is sat forever in most high of the sky! Veneranda nobis hujus front of Him! diei , says the prayer of this feast. In fact, Everything can be good or even this day is remarkable for us, because by important, but one thing is really contemplating Mary been raised in necessary: GOD! Even if it is after the body and soul to the heavenly glory, we death, everybody has to have this realize how perfect is the joy of those who conclusion! Our Lady is raised above the love God! Today´s Gospel, according to angels because, in her free will, she has our rite, presents the figure of two chosen to be with God, more perfectly than any angel, or any person. women , that are, both of them, figures of Our Carmel look today to Mary and the Church: Martha, stagebat circa frequens admires her perfect spiritual search … ministerium ; Mary sedens secus Domini . Here Only one thing is necessary! To are described two attitudes: while one is understand this is merely possible to serving, the other one is sat. To serve is those whom believe that we are citizens good , to sit is better . To serve is to leave of the heaven! Mary was always raised, from itself, to give itself to others. To sit always going up! The Assumption was is to leave from itself, to be with God. hardly a consequence of a continuous This is not the sitting of the lazy or of the movement of her soul to be “ secus arrogant, that sit in front of their own ego, Domini ” (together with The Lord). This but the sitting in the presence of God, as is being contemplative! Mary has valued that one who found peace: “ Sub umbra the future life and because of that wanted to remain Virgin and Poor. illius quem desideraveram sedi ” (Cant: 2,3) She valued more the Heaven than the (Under the shadow of that one I wished, Earth: She had her eyes turned towards I sat.). This is the stability that the blessed the eternal things. She didn´t cling to the ones have in heaven! However, one of the material things, because the figure of this characteristics of the infirmity that world fades. (1 Cor: 6,31). That Our Lady knocked down over the Church nowadays grants us a little of this joy that is is that she has become excessively reserved to those whom choose the ground, activist and “compromised best part! with the world” . Rev. Father Tiago of S. Joseph Despite Martha is important, the
August - 2019 News of the Mount Carmel Edition I - France THE CHRONICLES OF KARMEL Did you know that we have existed for a long, long time? Did you know when it all started until the day we started our little mission? Today I'm going to share a little bit with you about our history, where we came from, and why we insist on following, even when many would wish expelled and sometimes even that we no longer existed... excommunicated for their adherence to Over the months we will have the the millenarian teaching that so many n arrative of the nuns who lived ‘ The have sustained, which many civilizations Chronicles of Karmel’ . have created, and multitudes of souls led From this caste we descend: from the to Heaven! sons of the prophets of Mount Carmel. Expelled from our own home, exiled Today more than ever we are called to in Paraguay, under the tutelage of a holy help restore the faith of the people of Bishop, Mgr Livieres, and Holy Priests, God, to rebuild their altars destroyed by the Monastery grew so much that it modernism, and to fight with the needed more space to live and the Good Carmelite Virgin of the Deserts, sometimes in the cold and silent night of God allowed a new feat! This time the incessant prayer, sometimes in the heat of Bishop and Father himself is deposed and the middle of the day, in the ardent expelled from his own Diocese for struggle against the enemies of God. remaining faithful to the Eternal! A time From this people was born the Santa when our limits were constantly tested. Maria Monastery, in the city of Atibaia, But exactly during this time our mission next to the Santo Elias Monastery, of our was getting more and more clear! brothers, the Carmelite Monks of the We left our homeland, our home and Primitive Observance. Share with us the our families once again and God brought life and mission of the Prophet Elijah. us to these lands, where we have not only For 11 years the Monastery survived family roots, but above all, we are with official approval of the Diocese of connected to them by the bond of Bragança Paulista. In 2013 we began our long walk towards the Horeb, to the Christendom! Lands where the Christian hiding in Carit. A bizarre story to say the faith was planted not without blood, not least. In a world where "freedom of the without struggle, not without everlasting human being, equality and fraternity" are love! So it was actually like coming home. enshrined, some people are banished, The nature of the Karmel, and remoteness from the world suggests that Karmel was created by the Lord for Monks and Nuns and their feat!
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