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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 1h
🌹 Father Stéphane-Joseph Piat drew on recollections from the Martin family to tell their story. He shows how Saints Louis and Zélie helped prepare Thérèse’s way of spiritual childhood. 🔗 twp.ai/IluxXk #SaintTherese #Catholic
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 3h
🦅 Sister Margarita of Jesus imagines Saint Thérèse as a fledgling eagle learning to fly. Even as the nest falls away, the Lord’s wings bear her up. 🔗 twp.ai/IlwI5X #SaintTherese #Carmelites
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 4h
30 Sept 1399: #Parliament accepts the 'abdication' of Richard II, Henry IV is led to the throne #otd (NPG)
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 4h
Saint Thérèse’s parents helped prepare the ground in which her way of spiritual childhood took root.
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Quote of the day, 1 October: Fr. Stéphane-Joseph Piat
Biographer Stéphane-Joseph Piat, OFM begins with Thérèse’s praise for her parents, Louis and Zélie Martin, then traces how their faith and family life prepared her for the way of spiritual childhood. He sees her teaching as God’s gift, nourished in the home of two saints. Reading time: 2 minutes Read more →
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Luis @ludovicussocial.bsky.social · 11h
Powerful to remember in times of personal darkness and fear (and who hasn’t them?)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 5h
30 Sept 1594: First recorded performance (but probably not the first ever) of Christopher Marlowe's Dr Faustus #otd #London
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 5h
On the feast of St. Jerome #otd, 30 Sept, here he is having a quietly tender moment extracting a thorn from his lion's paw. Lucas Cranach, 1515. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 5h
Self-portrait, Michaelina Wautier, 1649/50. ( Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 5h
30 Sept 1515: Margaret Tudor Queen of #Scots & widow of James IV flees to #England otd (NPG) She was the mother of James V, sister of Henry VIII. #TudorStuart
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 5h
Human hair reworked. Band of needle lace made from human hair, England, c. 1640 - c. 1680. The thicker lines may be horse hair. (V&A, London)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 5h
Statuette of boxwood, 'Judith with head of Holofernes', Flemish, c. 1550-1600. A note #otd 30 Sept 1886 claims that it had been retrieved from a Spanish wreck on the Mayo coast & given to Rev Henry Maclean by the landlord of the inn at Achill Sound #Mayo (V&A Museum, London)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 13h
Wednesday, 30 Sept, Dublin
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 19h
🛡️ For the feast of the archangels, Jessica Powers’s poem “Michael” gives voice to trust when fear presses in. She turns to Saint Michael for protection. 🔗 twp.ai/IluyRG #SaintMichael #CatholicPoetry
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 21h
🙏 The Discalced Carmelite prayers for Saint Thérèse’s feast are available now on Carmelite Quotes. Pray the Proper Office throughout the day. 🔗 twp.ai/Iluzaw #SaintTherese #LiturgyOfTheHours
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 29/09/2026
✝️ Saint Thérèse’s last hours were marked by terrible suffering. Mother Agnès testified to her final words, her gaze upon the crucifix, and the change she witnessed at the end. 🔗 twp.ai/Ilv0b2 #StTherese #Catholic
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 29/09/2026
Mother Agnès recalls Saint Thérèse’s last words and the change in her face as she died.
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Quote of the day, 30 September: St. Thérèse of Lisieux
As Saint Thérèse lay dying on 30 September 1897, she asked to be prepared to die well and spoke of suffering without consolation. Mother Agnès of Jesus, her sister, testified to those final hours, Thérèse’s last words before the crucifix, and the community’s return to her bedside. Reading time: 3 minutes Read more →
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 29/09/2026
Pray the Discalced Carmelite Proper Office for Saint Thérèse of Lisieux on her October 1 feast.
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1 October: SAINT THERESE OF THE CHILD JESUS
Thérèse Martin was born at Alençon in 1873. At the age of fifteen, she entered the Carmel at Lisieux. She practiced heroic humility, evangelical simplicity, and trust in God, and taught the novices these virtues by word and example. She offered her life for the salvation of souls and the growth of the Church. She died on September 30, 1897. Canonized in 1925, she was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church in 1997. Read more →
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 29/09/2026
🕯️ At Krome detention center, Bishop Silvio José Báez preached to men separated from their families, unsure of tomorrow. In the vineyard parable, God keeps coming back for those still waiting, even at the last hour. 🔗 twp.ai/Iluzij #Faith #Hope
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 29/09/2026
Bishop Silvio José Báez, OCD: God comes looking for those the world has left behind.
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Your Life Can Begin Again — Silvio José Báez, ocd
At a Miami detention center, Bishop Silvio José Báez, OCD, tells men separated from their families that God keeps coming to seek them, even when the world seems to have left them behind. He calls them to care for one another and trust that their lives can begin again. Read more →
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 29/09/2026
✉️ For the anniversary of Blessed John Paul I’s death, read his letter to Saint Thérèse. He admired her courage through illness and darkness, but above all the love she gave God and her neighbor. 🔗 twp.ai/Ilv0DV #Saints #Faith
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 28/09/2026
🕯️ As the community offered prayers for the dying, Saint Thérèse could hardly breathe. At noon, Mother Agnès preserved a brief moment from that difficult day in her yellow notebook. 🔗 twp.ai/Ilv33m #StThérèse #Carmelite
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 28/09/2026
After her sisters prayed for the dying, Saint Thérèse asked a breathless question about her own agony.
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Quote of the day, 29 September: St. Thérèse
On 29 September 1897, Saint Thérèse struggled for breath as her community gathered around her bed to recite the prayers for the dying. After the sisters left, she asked Mother Marie de Gonzague if this was her agony and confessed, “I will never know how to die!”
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 27/09/2026
☔ The chapel was nearly ready for the Blessed Sacrament, and Saint Teresa expected the faithful to come for Holy Mass. Despite her anxiety, a benefactor trusted God to provide. 🔗 twp.ai/Ilv4ah #Catholic #Saints
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 27/09/2026
Rain poured through the chapel roof; Teresa of Avila's distress made her feel "very imperfect."
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Quote of the day, 28 September: St. Teresa of Avila
Rain poured through the roof of a newly prepared chapel in Salamanca, leaving Saint Teresa of Avila distressed before the Blessed Sacrament was reserved there. On St. Michael’s feast, as the sun began to shine, she saw how much better another had trusted in God. Reading time: 2 minutes Read more →
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 27/09/2026
🧶 In his Letters, Brother Lawrence urges continual conversation with God, sustained by love rather than a search for consolation. His counsel reaches into ordinary daily life. 🔗 twp.ai/Ilv5QS #Prayer #Carmelite
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 26/09/2026
🍇 We are more than our mistakes. In his homily on the two sons, Bishop Silvio José Báez, OCD, reminds us that we can reflect, change our behavior, and begin again. God always looks at us with eyes of hope. 🔗 twp.ai/IlupyY #Catholic #Hope
Parable of the Two Sons by Andrey Mironov
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 26/09/2026
Bishop Silvio José Báez, OCD, says God sees beyond our failures to the people we can become through love.
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Quote of the day, 27 September: Silvio José Báez, ocd
Bishop Silvio José Báez, OCD, insists that no failure defines our future. God looks upon us with love and hope, seeing not only who we are but what we can become. Conversion begins when we reflect, learn from our mistakes, and allow God to make all things new.
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 26/09/2026
🪡 Blessed Josefa Naval Girbés opened her home to help young people grow in faith. On her beatification anniversary, read her biographer’s account of the prayer that nourished her work. 🔗 twp.ai/Ilupby #Catholic #Carmelite
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 25/09/2026
🍂 In the last days of Saint Thérèse’s life, Sister Aimée lifted her as gently as if she weighed nothing. Thérèse herself knew how tenuously she was holding on. 🔗 twp.ai/IluriK #Catholic #Saints
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 25/09/2026
A dead leaf hanging by a spider’s thread became an image of St. Thérèse’s own fragile life.
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Quote of the Day, 26 September: St. Thérèse
In the last days of September 1897, Sister Aimée gently lifted the dying Thérèse without a jolt. On 26 September, Thérèse compared her fragile life to a dead leaf hanging by a tiny thread. Reading time: 1 minute Read more →
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Friday 25 Sept, Dublin
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 24/09/2026
🌱 Blessed Josefa Naval Girbés taught young people in her home and cared for people stricken by cholera. In this beatification homily, Saint John Paul II praised her apostolate as a woman living in the world. 🔗 twp.ai/Iluul9 #Catholic #Carmelite
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 24/09/2026
St. John Paul II praises Blessed Josefa’s teaching, her care for the dying, and her lay vocation.
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Quote of the day, 25 September: St. John Paul II
Blessed Josefa Naval Girbés taught young people in her family home and cared for the dying during a cholera epidemic. In his beatification homily, Saint John Paul II praised a woman who remained in the world and made her ordinary surroundings a place of Christian formation and charity. Reading time: 2 minutes Read more →
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
24 Sept 1653: d. Joao D'Almeida #Jesuit - who was born in #London as John Mead(e) - in Rio de Janeiro #otd. He was a famous seer, healer & miracle worker (Rijksmuseum - conveniently captioned here with figures of 'Anglia' & 'Brasilia')
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
24 Sept 1541: d. Cardinal Albrecht of #Mainz who employed Tetzel to sell indulgences which irritated Martin Luther who then ...
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thursday 24 Sept, Dublin
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 24/09/2026
🕯️ When Edith Stein was born on Yom Kippur in 1891, the date became especially meaningful to her mother. In her autobiography, Edith recalls their family custom. 🔗 twp.ai/IluuHr #Catholic #Family
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 23/09/2026
🕊️ In his final Angelus, Blessed John Paul I recalled the sixteen Carmelite martyrs of Compiègne. Their witness gave force to his appeal for love in a world marked by violence. 🔗 twp.ai/Iluwmv #Catholic #Carmelites
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 23/09/2026
Blessed John Paul I recalls the Carmelite martyrs and declares that love can do everything.
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Quote of the day, 24 September: Blessed John Paul I
As the Carmelites of Compiègne approached the guillotine, they sang hymns and renewed their vow of obedience. Recalling their witness in his final Angelus address, Blessed John Paul I answered the violence of his own day with a startling claim: love can do everything. Reading time: 2 minutes Read more →
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Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My favorite Carmelite saint 🤎 The Other Doctor Casper was talking this evening about a call to speak out against current developments in our own nation
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wednesday 23 Sept, Dublin
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 23/09/2026
🕯️ Saint Titus Brandsma condemned Nazi persecution of Jews as “disgraceful” and the Nazi position as cowardice. He knew the danger but refused to remain silent. Read his story. 🔗https://twp.ai/IluwjT #Catholic #Saints
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 22/09/2026
💌 What could make even great sacrifices seem small? In a letter to her cousin, Saint Teresa of the Andes describes the joy of belonging wholly to God. 🔗 twp.ai/IluhgH #Catholic #Faith
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 22/09/2026
Saint Teresa of the Andes urges her cousin to carry a Carmelite life of prayer into her own vocation.
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Quote of the day, 23 September: St. Teresa of the Andes
Saint Teresa of Jesus of the Andes wrote to her cousin, who hoped to enter the Society of the Sacred Heart. From Carmel, Teresa suggested that her cousin could live like a Carmelite within her own vocation. Her letter shows what that would ask of her each day. Reading time: 2 minutes Read more →
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 22/09/2026
🌹 Saint Thérèse wanted to help souls love God as she did. Join us for her novena, with Scripture, her own words, and a prayer for her intercession. 🔗 twp.ai/IluhYI #SaintTherese #Prayer
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 22/09/2026
Join us in asking Saint Thérèse to help us love Jesus as she did.
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Novena to Saint Thérèse of Lisieux 2026
Join us for a powerful novena to Saint Thérèse of Lisieux that she may help us love Jesus as she did. Each day pairs Scripture with Thérèse’s words to her sister Marie in Letter 197, inviting us to follow her little way of trust and surrender.
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 22/09/2026
🪙 Saint Matthew left his tax booth to follow Christ. Saint Edith Stein reminds us that we too must choose, without knowing where the road will lead. 🔗 twp.ai/IluiOI #Catholic #Faith
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 21/09/2026
🙏 Prayer may begin with words from a book or arise in the mind, but Jessica Powers follows it further: through helplessness and distraction, toward God’s presence and will. 🔗 twp.ai/IlujcZ #Prayer #Catholic
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Carmelite Quotes @carmelitequotes.blog · 21/09/2026
True prayer seeks God’s presence and will, remaining faithful through every trial and distraction.
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Quote of the day, 22 September:
Jessica Powers moves from familiar forms of prayer to its deepest purpose: seeking God’s presence and will. Whether words come from a breviary or arise in the mind, true prayer perseveres through helplessness and distraction, trusting that God receives the soul that has nowhere else to go. Reading time: 2 minutes Read more →
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I saw this for the first time on Saturday. Opening of Vatican II, Patrick Pye, 1966. You don’t often have the Sedia Gestatoria worked out in stained glass!
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