10 Our Lady of Mount Carmel Things that Caught My Eye Today

Last updated on: July 16, 2015 at 1:52 pm by Kathryn Jean Lopez

10 Our Lady of Mount Carmel Things that Caught My Eye Today 2015-07-16T13:52:37-05:00 Kathryn Jean Lopez

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5 Things to Know About Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and the Brown Scapular http://t.co/3ms0oZftOQ pic.twitter.com/4BXZpRkyFS

— Word On Fire (@WordOnFire) July 16, 2015

2. A backgrounder from New Advent.

3. A homily from Fr. Steve Grunow.

AND: Today’s readings.

4. Honoring our Lady in the Empire State.

Happy Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel to all & the Nuns of the Carmel of the Holy Trinity in Arlington. Please pray for the sisters today.

— Bishop Michael Olson (@BpOlsonFW) July 16, 2015

Fond memories of the 1st parish I served in as we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Mary guide us. pic.twitter.com/mEl6HSkOw6

— Fr. Patrick Brennan (@Pathound) July 16, 2015

Happy Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel to all & the Nuns of the Carmel of the Holy Trinity in Arlington. Please pray for the sisters today.

— Bishop Michael Olson (@BpOlsonFW) July 16, 2015

8. From a sermon by Saint Leo the Great in the Liturgy of the Hours today:

A royal virgin of the house of David is chosen. She is to bear a holy child, one who is both God and man. She is to conceive him in her soul before she conceives him in her body. In the face of so unheard of an event she is to know no fear through ignorance of the divine plan; the angel tells her what is to be accomplished in her by the Holy Spirit. She believes that there will be no loss of virginity, she who is soon to be the mother of God. Why should she lose heart at this new form of conceiving when she has been promised that it will be effected through the power of the Most High? She believes, and her faith is confirmed by the witness of a previous wonder: against all expectation Elizabeth is made fruitful. God has enabled a barren woman to be with child; he must be believed when he makes the same promise to a virgin.

The son of God who was in the beginning with God, through whom all things were made, without whom nothing was made, became man to free him from eternal death. He stooped down to take up our lowliness without loss to his own glory. He remained what he was; he took up what he was not. He wanted to join the very nature of a servant to that nature in which he is equal to God the Father. He wanted to unite both natures in an alliance so wonderful that the glory of the greater would not annihilate the lesser, nor the taking up of the lower diminish the greatness of the higher.

What belongs to each nature is preserved intact and meets the other in one person: lowliness is taken up by greatness, weakness by power, mortality by eternity. To pay the debt of our human condition, a nature incapable of suffering is united to a nature capable of suffering, and true God and true man are forged into the unity that is the Lord. This was done to make possible the kind of remedy that fitted our human need: one and the same mediator between God and men able to die because of one nature, able to rise again because of the other. It was fitting, therefore, that the birth which brings salvation brought no corruption to virginal integrity; the bringing forth of Truth was at the same time the safeguarding of virginity.

Dearly beloved, this kind of birth was fitting for Christ, the power and the wisdom of God: a birth in which he was one with us in our human nature but far above us in his divinity. If he were not true God, he would not be able to bring us healing; if he were not true man, he would not be able to give us an example.

And so at the birth of our Lord, the angels sing in joy: Glory to God in the highest, and they proclaim peace to his people on earth as they see the heavenly Jerusalem being built from all the nations of the world. If the angels on high are so exultant at this marvelous work of God’s goodness, what joy should it not bring to the lowly hearts of men?

9. Yoking Ourselves to Jesus, the Incarnate I Am Who Am, Through Mary

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Happy Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel to all & the Nuns of the Carmel of the Holy Trinity in Arlington. Please pray for the sisters today.

— Bishop Michael Olson (@BpOlsonFW) July 16, 2015

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