July 16th Solemnity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

July 16th Solemnity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

July 16th Solemnity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

 
We greet all our visitors on this great feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel praying that each of you will experience her motherly care and protection in all your needs.
We offer for your reflection these verses by the American Carmelite, Sr Miriam of the Holy Spirit (Jessica Powers 1905-1988).
Virgin of the Incarnation,
In the mysteries of grace
God has made his habitation
In our soul’s most secret place.
Towards that bright and inner kingdom
All our words and ways compel
For the Father, Son and Spirit
In its sacred silence dwell.

Queen and beauty of Mount Carmel,
Virgin of the solitude,
In the wilderness of Carmel
Lies the world’s eternal good.
Draw us into deep seclusion
And make God alone our goal,
In the mystical Mount Carmel
That lies hidden in the soul.