FEAST OF OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL - JULY 16
From the Douay-Rheims Bible: (In The New American Bible this Scripture is in 1 Kings 18)
3 Kings 18:41 And Elias (Elijah) said to Achab: Go up, eat, and drink: for there is a sound of abundance of rain. (42) Achab went up to eat and drink: and Elias went up to the top of Carmel, and casting himself down upon the earth put his face between his knees, (43) And he said to his servant: Go up, and look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said: There is nothing. And again he said to him: Return seven times. (44) And at the seventh time, behold, a little cloud arose out of the sea like a man' s foot.
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“lilike a man’s foot…” I will put enmities
between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush
thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait
for her heel. Gen. 3:15 “I In the Carmelite tradition,
Elijah and Mary are brought together most closely in the image of the cl cloud that forms over the sea.” (From a
Carmelite blog - Flos Carmeli h://floscarmeli.stblogs.org/archives/2006/03/elijah-and-mary.html) |
“This means that the greatest
saints, those richest in grace and virtue, will be the most assiduous in
praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking up to her as the perfect model to
imitate and as a powerful helper to assist them.
I said that this will happen
especially towards the end of the world, and indeed soon, because Almighty God
and His holy Mother are to raise up great saints who will surpass in holiness
most other saints as much as the cedars of Lebanon tower above little shrubs. These great souls filled with grace and zeal
will be chosen to oppose the enemies of God who are raging on all sides. They will be exceptionally devoted to the
Blessed Virgin.” (“True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin”, St.
Louis de Montfort)
“This means that the greatest
saints, those richest in grace and virtue, will be the most assiduous in
praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking up to her as the perfect model to
imitate and as a powerful helper to assist them.
I said that this will happen
especially towards the end of the world, and indeed soon, because Almighty God
and His holy Mother are to raise up great saints who will surpass in holiness
most other saints as much as the cedars of Lebanon tower above little shrubs. These great souls filled with grace and zeal
will be chosen to oppose the enemies of God who are raging on all sides. They will be exceptionally devoted to the
Blessed Virgin.” (“True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin”, St.
Louis de Montfort)
Book of Heaven, February 24, 1902
The Queen Mother: Star of the Sea on earth, Star of Light in Heaven. More about the law of divorce. As I was in my usual state, the Queen Mother came and told me: “My daughter, my sorrows, as the prophets say, were a sea of sorrows, and in Heaven they have turned into a sea of glory, and each of my sorrows has borne the fruit of as many treasures of grace. And just as on earth they call Me ‘Star of the Sea’, because I guide them to the harbor with certainty, in Heaven they call Me ‘Star of Light’ for all the Blessed, because they are delighted by this light that my sorrows produced.” In the meantime my adorable Jesus came, saying to me: “My beloved, there is nothing more dear and pleasing to Me than an upright heart which loves Me and, on seeing Me suffer, prays Me to let it suffer what I suffer. This binds Me so much and has so much power over my Heart that, as recompense, I give it all of Myself, and I concede to it the greatest graces and whatever it wants; and if I did not do so, since I gave Myself as gift, I feel that, for as many things as I do not give to it, so many thefts do I make from it – that is, so many debts do I contract with it.”
Lynne Bauer, JMJ
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