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12/31/2024

09/07/2023

A NEW BOOK ON ST THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX -- on the 150th anniversary of her birth and the 100th anniversary of her beatification.

SINGING THE MERCIES OF THE LORD: Writings on Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

The 26 chapters are grouped into 5 sections: Saint Thérèse and Her Siblings; Thérèse's Spiritual Teachings; Thérèse, Mary, the Saints, and Spiritual Writers; Thérèse, Ireland, and Other Places, Thérèse and the Theatre.

Now available from Carmelite Media. For more information and to order, go to: https://publications.carmelitemedia.org/products/singing-the-mercies-of-the-lord-writings-on-saint-therese-of-lisieux

09/06/2023

Its hot outside!!!! Get a good book and then find a cool spot to sit and enjoy it !!!!

04/27/2023

America’s Top 50 Favorite Books

1) Pride And Prejudice
2) To Kill A Mockingbird
3) Harry Potter (Series)
4) Where the Crawdads Sing
5) The Lord Of the Rings
6) The Great Gatsby
7) The Alchemist
8) Jane Eyre
9) Verity
10) It Ends With Us
11) The Stand
12) Outlander
13) The Book Thief
14) Nightingale
15) Little Women
16) Gone With The Wind
17) The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo
18) The Hobbit
19) A Court Of Thorns And Roses
20) The Hunger Games
21) A Court Of Mist And Fury
22) The Song Of Achilles
23) The Invisible Life Of Addie Larue
24) The Silent Patient
25) The Giver
26) Percy Jackson (Series)
27) The Twilight Saga
28) 1984
29) The Outsider
30) The Bible
31) All The Light We Cannot See
32) The Kite Runner
33) The Count Of Monte Cristo
34) The Catcher In Rye
35) The Handmaid’s Tale
36) The Night Circus
37) The Color Purple
38) Fahrenheit 451
39) The Midnight Library
40) Dune
41) Anne Of Green Gables
42) The Coldest Winter Ever
43) Six Of Crows
44) It
45) Circe
46) A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
47) Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
48) East Of Eden
49) Throne Of Glass
50) The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy

(photo: a section of the house library at the Carmelite monastery in Straubing, Germany)

04/22/2023

Today we celebrate World Book Day! Celebrate it by reading a good book!!!!

It is interesting that books have often been the catalyst for some dramatic actions. Plato is said to have spent his adult life trying to collect and burn every single copy of his adversary Democritus’s work. While Plato was not successful, his followers largely were. Plato’s work is still being taught today, while no full copies of Democritus' work are known to exist.
In the ancient Qin Dynasty, the Chinese emperor was alleged to have destroyed any text in the country relating to the Hundred Schools of Thought, a competing doctrine of history and philosophy at the time. He was also alleged to have executed 460 Confucian scholars in the process.
Sometimes the author was forced to do the burning himself. The theologian Abelard was condemned as a heretic by a French synod and forced to burn his own books before being locked up.
In 1242, The French crown burned all copies of the Jewish Talmud in Paris, about 12,000, after the book was "charged" and "found guilty" in the Disputation of Paris.
Under reformer Martin Luther, a public burning of books was held in a public square on December 10, 1520. Together with the papal bull of Excommunication Exsurge Domine, issued against Luther himself, were burned works which Luther considered as symbols of Catholic orthodoxy – including the Code of Canon Law and the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas.
But the Catholics got even when Martin Luther’s 1534 German translation of the Bible was burned in Catholic-dominated parts of Germany in 1624, by order of the pope.
Some 18,000 titles were judged not to conform to the N**i ideology so many books were burned in the 1930s and 40s. One memorable burning took place on May 10, 1933, in Berlin. SA and N**i youth groups burned around 25,000 “degenerate” books by such authors as Albert Einstein, Bertolt Brecht, Helen Keller, Thomas Mann, Ernest Hemingway, and H.G. Wells.
Even Harry Potter, a story of a boy-turned-wizard who battles foes inside a wonderfully crafted magical world of fiction, has been the main cause for at least six book burning in the U.S. alone.
There are thousands of other examples across thousands of years of book burning. But in the modern age, it usually morphs into its more congenial form of censorship: book banning.

THE POWER OF BOOKS!

04/22/2023

Sunday, April 23 is World Book Day. World Book Day is a day set aside by the UNESCO to celebrate copyright, publishing, and reading. How will you celebrate?

We have many great books available at our webstore:
carmelites.info/publications

08/15/2022

Looking to understand the Feast of the Assumption in a deeper way? This is a scholarly yet very accessible examination of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Marry into heavenly glory.

Carmelite author Kilian Healy, a member of the Second Vatican Council, first examines the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus that defined the dogma of the Assumption. It is here we perceive that the Assumption is not an isolated privilege granted to Mary, but one that is intimately joined with the person and mission of Christ.

The second part goes beyond the Constitution and ponders the Immaculate Virgin in heaven in relation to the mystery of the Church. The first consideration is Mary in heaven as the model, image and beginning of the pilgrim Church. This is followed by her relation to the suffering and heavenly Church. The final chapter ponders the texts of the liturgical feast of the Assumption. Fr. Healy also examines the objections to this dogma.

This and many other fine books on Carmelite spirituality and history are available from Carmelite Media Publications.

For more information: https://publications.carmelitemedia.org/products/the-assumption-of-mary?_pos=1&_sid=04d853691&_ss=r

04/23/2022

Enjoy World Book Day -- Read a good book!

04/17/2022

Wishing all of our readers a blessed Easter Season!

04/08/2022

Titus Brandsma and His Involvement With the Esperanto Language

Marija Belošević is the current president of the Internazionale Union of Cattolica Esperantists (IKUE) which counted Fr. Titus Brandsma of Oss, Netherlands, among its early members. The artificial language of Esperanto was seen as a way of bringing people of the world together with a common language. Fr. Ttus embraced this new language wholeheartedly because of this possibility. Aware of Fr. Titus’ upcoming canonization, Mrs. Belošević has been using digitized records and magazines from IKUE to research Fr. Titus’ connection to the language of Esperanto and to her Catholic organization which promotes it. Her research indicates that the Dutch professor was very involved with Esperanto earlier than previously thought.

Read More: https://ocarm.org/.../5783-titus-brandsma-and-his-work...