What it takes to become a Teresian Carmelite Saint

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Feast of All the Saints of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

... By their examples and merits, [may we] live for Christ Crucified alone in meditation of the yoke of His law and in perfect abnegation... (taken from the Collect)

My son, give me your [whole] heart: and let thy eyes keep My ways: if anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me (Pr. 23.26; Mt. 16.24).

But the generously staunch heart of a Teresian Carmelite, beating after the Heart of the Immaculate Mother and Queen of Carmel, would not be content to take up his cross and merely follow the Beloved after - "Be always ready to take the place of the Beloved!" (St. Teresa of Jesus).

A blessed Feast to everyone!

See also: "Decor Carmeli" (The Beauty of Carmel), Teresian Carmelite Vocation Discernment - I: The Queenship of Mary, and The (Traditional) Teresian Carmel. Related: The Measure of Loving God