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The Carmelite Sisters accepted the invitation to be regular contributors to two well-known Catholic web sites.
Meet Sister Laus Gloriae, O.C.D. who discusses Carmelite Spirituality every Third Wednesday on the award-winning Catholic Web site, Integrated Catholic Life.
Meet Sister Carmen Laudis, O.C.D., who shares from the writings of the Carmelite Saints on prayer and applies it to life in the 21st century on Catholic Spiritual Direction.
We will post excerpts from our posts on these two blogs on this page.
To access our previous blog, including recaps from World Youth Day 2011, click here.
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Integrated Catholic Life: Ask a Carmelite Sisters Series - Posted 4/11/2012
Question: Sometimes the living of my Catholic faith is a lonely walk for me. Why is that? Am I doing anything wrong? Sometimes I think, “Am I the only one feeling this way?” I’ve never had theology classes and would appreciate anything you could send my way to help me understand why I feel so alone sometimes in my faith-journey.
Answer: A lovely plant sits on a desk near our office’s east window. The deep green leaves instinctively reach for the sun. Its roots dig deeply for life-giving water. It cannot think, yet it has some inner compass which reaches for that which gives it life – sun and water.
Nature’s mysterious recipe of sunlight and water becomes the fuel of its life, its energy. It is likewise a mystery how the plant knows where the sun is and how to turn toward it. At the same time, it remains a fact that, indeed, it does know.
Faith is like that plant. Continue Reading |
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