Tomorrow, July 16, is the feast day of Our Lady of Carmel, a very important feast day in the life of any Carmelite and really anyone that wears and has a devotion […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Our Lady of Carmel, St. Simon Stock, and the Brown Scapular
“Mondays with Mary” – Our Lady of Mount Carmel at Aylesford (England)
The origin of Our Lady of Mount Carmel begins in Israel (near present-day Haifa), the first place ever dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. A chapel was built in Our Lady’s honor […]
“Mondays with Mary” – The Synthesis of Marian Spirituality in the Brown Scapular
With Wednesday being the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, I found it fitting today to write about the importance of the Brown Scapular or as I like to call it […]
Quick Lessons from the Catechism: Sacramentals
Each morning as I wake, my brown scapular is either outside of my shirt or loosely hanging around my neck. This morning it happened to be outside of my shirt and as […]
Catholic Dog Tags
A few months back, I was getting a haircut and the individual cutting my hair noticed that I was wearing some sort of cloth “necklace”, but I told this person; it’s not […]
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