Flowers of Carmel
“It is a happy thought, at the Centenary of the proclamation of Mary’s Motherhood of God in Ephesus in 431 […]
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Flowers of Carmel
“In a sermon on Sunday ‘Gaudete’, the third Sunday of Advent, (the English Carmelite Henry de Hanna) discusses, guided by
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“Again, and again, St. John of the Cross returns to the inexhaustible Mystery of the Incarnation. ‘That knowing’, he says
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“‘In this union’, so (John of the Cross) continues, ‘that which is communicated is God himself, who gives Himself to
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“We have here actually a double image: the image of the Incarnation of God’s Son in us and that of
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“While Mary is thus our example in this aspect, St. John paints for us the glory of the divine Motherhood
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“In his Explanation of the ‘The Living Flame of Love’, St. John of the Cross draws the Holy Mother of
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“A favourite image, under which St. John of the Cross with so many other mystical writers illuminates the necessity of
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“(Mary’s) being full of the Holy Spirit was still only the first phase in her election that would be crowned
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“In the first place he glorifies in Mary, that she, whom the Angel called full of grace, was wholly filled