10/02/2026
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๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ก๐๐๐ง, ๐๐๐๐๐ซ๐ฆ ๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐ง ๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐๐๐๐!
Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen was deeply attracted to the Carmelite Order. A series of letters which he saved all his life to the Carmelite Sisters in New Albany, Indiana, demonstrates this clearly:
"Your (Carmelite) prayers and sufferings do more good than all our preaching and our hectic actions. We make the noise; we get the credit; we enjoy the consolation of a victory seen and tasted. You are responsible for it and yet you cannot see the fruitsโbut you will on that day when the Cross appears in the heavens and every man is rewarded according to his works."
"I want to cling onto Carmel for I love its love of Jesus. I refuse to give it up and like the blind man of Jericho I shall go on shouting out to you continually to cure my blindness and my ills."
"Make Fr. Sheen a priest burning with love for Thee alone." (Sheen Archives Box 48)
His special bond of friendship with the Carmelite Order was sealed, when on July 17, 1948 the 53 year-old Fulton Sheen made his Profession as a member of the Carmelite Third Order. He was at that time Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the Catholic University of America, Washington DC.
County Wicklow born Most Rev. Kilian Lynch, O. Carm., Prior General of the Carmelite Order, received the Carmelite Third Order Profession of Fulton Sheen at a ceremony in the Carmelite House of Studies, White Friars Hall, Washington DC. Fr. Lynch had arrived in the United States from Rome to preside at the Provincial Chapter of the American Carmelite Province of the Most Pure Heart of Mary and was assisted at the ceremony by Fr. Kilian J. Healy, O. Carm., Prior (and future Prior General), and Fr. John Marcellus Scheuer, O. Carm., Prefect of Students and friend of Fulton.
(Source: CITOC)
