This is such help to get closer to God and holier life Rich well spoken all you have said many thanks bless you and all the Carmelites in this troubled world. I will be back.
I like how you explain the process of how to understand the ways of the carmelites, being a very ordinary person, I can relate and grasp how you explain these. Thank you for your awesome time and effort. Appreciate it.
Thank you Fr. I've been trying to learn more about Carmelite and there is a sea of information I can get lost in. Your talks have helped bring it down to earth and a practical practice. Blessings to you Father.
Father, you make sense! I have grown up with Ignatian retreats which are no longer available. I am now exploring the spirituality of the Carnelites, who run my parish. Slowly but surely. In God's love!
Thank you, Father for the excellent video. During the year, I also read Divine Intimacy by Fr. Gabriel. The conferences are divided so that one reads 2-3 pages per day; and he gives us much to consider. Of course, he employs the great Carmelite doctors. Thank you again for a very excellent video. Pax
Thank you Father so much for these videos. I appreciate your warm hearted honesty, your take on things and in general nice presentation of the material. I find these explanations of different monastic lives very interesting.
Your talks are wonderfully instructive. I also love your calm manner, soothing voice and how speak from your own experience as well as Church teaching.
Thank you Father......very helpful and useful to pass on to people asking about silent prayer. I would say only one thing. I tried my vocation first with Carthusians, and then was one year in a Carmel..both in Italy, but had to leave because of serious ill health. I am English and now have been OCDS for many years, living alone. Although Carmel has the community aspect, it is still a very solitary life, as the work is done as much as possible in solitude. The solitude in Chartreuse is physically very great, but I found it less difficult. There is always a Resident Carthusian father at hand who you can call on at any time if you have spiritual difficulties. Not so in Carmel where you must wait until the confessor comes to the community! +
Thank you so much for this personal approach to a multiséculaire spirituality. Yes it does help us a great deal in out Christian and prayer life. Thank for your enthousiasm. Yes the experience if the réality of silent prayer in Venasque or carmélite monasteries is striking, alors touchable and certainly a " catching" experience. Thanks so much to have shared it
I have had 9 years of Carmelite Spirituality up to 3rd year, preparing for 4th year simple vows as a Friar in an offshoot Carmel, now disbanned Carmelite Missionary Community, now trying to bring out a greater good out of Chaos since now going on 22 years, and it is quite difficult, whilst maintaining a Carmelite sense in my current dwelling with a Home Altar with Carmelite Saints Icons, etc. I do have many Books on Carmelite Spirituality: the Collective Works of John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila, "Prayer Primer: Igniting the Fire within" and: "Fire Within" by Fr. Thomas Dubay, S.M. Also a book by Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D...."DIVINE INTIMACY".
Thank you for bringing this lesson in Carmelite spirituality to me this morning. I especially appreciated your softspoken, kindly, informative and personal experience approach. You invited me to try sgain to adopt this beautful way of relating to God. We are going through a time of confusion and chaos but here are the fundamentals that will guide me and my family through the darkening of our wintry world.
Thank you father for all this spirituality videos! I am discerning my vocation and am trying to choose which orders to visit this year. I already went to the Dominicans.
I would like to make a testimony for devout Catholics not to repeat my error: I was diagnosed with cancer in 2010; I started to learn the Carmelite spirituality through reading the books, Ascent of Mount Carmel and The Dark Night. My wife was diagnosed with brain cancer in November of 2012, whilst I was still under surgery of cancer nodules in lungs. Our situation became worse, including financial situation. My Protestant friends introduced me to learn Martin Luther’s works. Luther’s famous doctrine of justification was faith alone, not works. I thought St. John of the Cross was totally wrong by introducing the purgative way, the illuminative way and then the unitive way, as described by Father Wang here. According to The Dark Night, St. John himself could not reach the level of the Unitive Way before his death. I thought St. John went to the wrong approach by his works, instead of his faith, as Luther described. Now I came back to the Catholic Church and I am learning.
Eh, there is much you have wrong about St. John of the Cross if you missed the whole "faith is the only proximate means to know God." Those ways of transformation have us doing less and less work as we empty ourselves from disordered attachments and as God draws us closer to Him in the way of unknowing. Union is an action of grace, we are meant to live in theosis with the Holy Trinity whether in the beatific vision of heaven or as close to it as possible through spiritual marriage in this life. We are to be purified/sanctified, whether we go through through practicing the virtues that make us let go of ego and self interest in this life or as God polishes us up through the state of Purgatory. Heaven is our destination, are we going to cling to nothing but Christ to make the journey, or rely on what we think we know? What we know is not faith.
Thank you for posting this information! Also, please have some manners and don't pull out that great big bottle and drink while you're talking. Rude. No drinking or eating while talking.:)
I am a member of The Leaven - a Carmelite Secular Institute in England. Please pray for us too and for me as I make my first vows on 25th April 2024.
As a professed Lay Carmelite I found this helpful to reinforce my past teachings. Thank you.
May the peace and love of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Thank you for the information on the wisdom of spirituality...
This is superb. The priest is soft spoken, calm and combines his faith summary of his readings and experience. I learnt so much within half an hour.
This is such help to get closer to God and holier life
Rich well spoken all you have said many thanks bless you and all the Carmelites in this troubled world. I will be back.
I like how you explain the process of how to understand the ways of the carmelites, being a very ordinary person, I can relate and grasp how you explain these. Thank you for your awesome time and effort. Appreciate it.
Thank you Fr. I've been trying to learn more about Carmelite and there is a sea of information I can get lost in. Your talks have helped bring it down to earth and a practical practice. Blessings to you Father.
Father, you make sense!
I have grown up with Ignatian
retreats which are no longer available. I am now exploring the spirituality of the Carnelites, who run my parish.
Slowly but surely. In God's love!
Thank you, Father for the excellent video. During the year, I also read Divine Intimacy by Fr. Gabriel. The conferences are divided so that one reads 2-3 pages per day; and he gives us much to consider. Of course, he employs the great Carmelite doctors. Thank you again for a very excellent video. Pax
DIVINE INTIMACY BOOK is very powerful 🙏
Thank you Father so much for these videos. I appreciate your warm hearted honesty, your take on things and in general nice presentation of the material. I find these explanations of different
monastic lives very interesting.
Your talks are wonderfully instructive. I also love your calm manner, soothing voice and how speak from your own experience as well as Church teaching.
Thank you Father......very helpful and useful to pass on to people asking about silent prayer. I would say only one thing. I tried my vocation first with Carthusians, and then was one year in a Carmel..both in Italy, but had to leave because of serious ill health. I am English and now have been OCDS for many years, living alone. Although Carmel has the community aspect, it is still a very solitary life, as the work is done as much as possible in solitude. The solitude in Chartreuse is physically very great, but I found it less difficult. There is always a Resident Carthusian father at hand who you can call on at any time if you have spiritual difficulties. Not so in Carmel where you must wait until the confessor comes to the community! +
Thank you so much for this personal approach to a multiséculaire spirituality. Yes it does help us a great deal in out Christian and prayer life. Thank for your enthousiasm. Yes the experience if the réality of silent prayer in Venasque or carmélite monasteries is striking, alors touchable and certainly a " catching" experience. Thanks so much to have shared it
I have had 9 years of Carmelite Spirituality up to 3rd year, preparing for 4th year simple vows as a Friar in an offshoot Carmel, now disbanned Carmelite Missionary Community, now trying to bring out a greater good out of Chaos since now going on 22 years, and it is quite difficult, whilst maintaining a Carmelite sense in my current dwelling with a Home Altar with Carmelite Saints Icons, etc. I do have many Books on Carmelite Spirituality: the Collective Works of John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila, "Prayer Primer: Igniting the Fire within" and: "Fire Within" by Fr. Thomas Dubay, S.M. Also a book by Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D...."DIVINE INTIMACY".
We are called for holiness in the little things of life.
With our Adorable Jesus may our ears listen to the silence together...Elizabeth Kindlemann 3rd Order Carmelite
WOW 🙏
Thank you for bringing this lesson in Carmelite spirituality to me this morning. I especially appreciated your softspoken, kindly, informative and personal experience approach. You invited me to try sgain to adopt this beautful way of relating to God. We are going through a time of confusion and chaos but here are the fundamentals that will guide me and my family through the darkening of our wintry world.
I appriciate your prentation... I am living as carmelite for long time.. But knowing very less about it.. Thanks for helping me
Thank you father for all this spirituality videos! I am discerning my vocation and am trying to choose which orders to visit this year. I already went to the Dominicans.
I would like to make a testimony for devout Catholics not to repeat my error: I was diagnosed with cancer in 2010; I started to learn the Carmelite spirituality through reading the books, Ascent of Mount Carmel and The Dark Night. My wife was diagnosed with brain cancer in November of 2012, whilst I was still under surgery of cancer nodules in lungs. Our situation became worse, including financial situation. My Protestant friends introduced me to learn Martin Luther’s works. Luther’s famous doctrine of justification was faith alone, not works. I thought St. John of the Cross was totally wrong by introducing the purgative way, the illuminative way and then the unitive way, as described by Father Wang here. According to The Dark Night, St. John himself could not reach the level of the Unitive Way before his death. I thought St. John went to the wrong approach by his works, instead of his faith, as Luther described. Now I came back to the Catholic Church and I am learning.
Eh, there is much you have wrong about St. John of the Cross if you missed the whole "faith is the only proximate means to know God." Those ways of transformation have us doing less and less work as we empty ourselves from disordered attachments and as God draws us closer to Him in the way of unknowing. Union is an action of grace, we are meant to live in theosis with the Holy Trinity whether in the beatific vision of heaven or as close to it as possible through spiritual marriage in this life. We are to be purified/sanctified, whether we go through through practicing the virtues that make us let go of ego and self interest in this life or as God polishes us up through the state of Purgatory. Heaven is our destination, are we going to cling to nothing but Christ to make the journey, or rely on what we think we know? What we know is not faith.
Father, I enjoyed this very much. Thank You & God Bless!😇🙏
God bless you father🙏🏻❤️
Thank you Father ❤
This video has been so helpful to me, thank you. Father are you a spiritual director?
Thank you 🌠🌊
Monasteries are wonderful wonderful places. Oh that our churches were the same.
Jesus said Go into your private room close the door and pray.
Is there a Notre Dame De Vie in Australia? I would go for retreat.
The beginning of Carmel was hermitical and elements of this beginning are still observed.
google THE BRIEF RULE OF SAINT ROMUALD.
Thank you for posting this information! Also, please have some manners and don't pull out that great big bottle and drink while you're talking. Rude. No drinking or eating while talking.:)
You don't just run away from someone because they are difficult.