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Elijah Waits in Silent Solitude
The first window in the Basilica’s St. Elias (Elijah) Adoration Chapel begins in the middle of the story, where we find Elijah drinking from the brook in a ravine in an out-of-the-way spot called Wadi Cherith.
A Meditative Study of Liturgy and Significance of the Solemnity of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
July 16 honors the Virgin Mary as the Patroness of the Carmelite family. The Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel demonstrates the relationship cultivated with the Blessed Virgin over the eight centuries of Carmelite history.
St. Simon Stock receives the Brown Scapular
One of the Stained Glass windows in the Basilica depicts an instance of Our Lady’s intercession on behalf of the Carmelite Order at a critical moment in its history.
“A Hymn to Death on a Cross”
Read Fr. Bonaventure’s meditation upon the hymn Death on a Cross. At best you might call it a very free translation. Maybe after reading the following, and then returning to the original in your Bible, you can meditate on the passage for yourself.
First-Class Relic Veneration
First-class relics are contained within a ring on the left hand of the statue of Thérèse in the tomb chapel of the Basilica of the Little Flower.
About the Little Flower
Born in Alençon, France in 1873, Thérèse Martin made a trip to Rome at the age of 15 to make a personal request of Pope Leo XIII for special permission: entering the Carmelite monastery of Lisieux.