Thursday, July 17, 2014 Today's Saints....

Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne

Feast day: July 17 

Death: 1794

Sixteen Carmelites caught up in the French Revolution

and martyred. When the revolution started in 1789, 

a group of twenty-one discalced Carmelites lived in 

a monastery in Compiegne France, founded in 1641. The monastery was ordered closed in 

1790 by the Revolutionary gov­ernment, and the nuns were disbanded. Sixteen of the nuns

 were accused of living in a religious community in 1794. They were arrested on June 22 

and imprisoned in a Visitation convent in Compiegne There they openly resumed their religious

 life. On July 12, 1794, the Carmelites were taken to Paris and five days later were sentenced 

to death. They went to the guillotine singing the Salve Regina. They were beatified in 1906 by

Pope St. Pius X. 

The Carmelites were: Marie Claude Brard; Madeleine Brideau, the subprior;

Maire Croissy, grandniece of Colbert Marie Dufour; Marie Hanisset; Marie Meunier, a novice;

Rose de Neufville Annette Pebras; Anne Piedcourt: Madeleine Lidoine, the prioress; Angelique

Roussel; Catherine Soiron and Therese Soiron, both extern sisters, natives of Compiegne and

blood sisters: Anne Mary Thouret; Marie Trezelle; and Eliza beth Verolot. The martyrdom of

 the nuns was immortalized by the composer Francois Poulenc in his famous opera Dialogues

des Carmelites.

How we live out our faith today?

Do we put our faith in action?

Do we make ourselves available to the Holy Spirit to motivate us into action whenever we see a need for our support?

As we ponder this week on the "La Salette Tent Revival" a question enters our hearts:

• How much of our busy day do we put aside to ponder in the Holy Will of God in our lives?
• With all the modern technology iPhone, iPad, social sites, music, and many other distractions
• Do we take time to sit quietly with Jesus and allow Him to speak to our hearts daily?

As we make time for God our lives will be much blessed, God transforms our hearts and make it like His own.  We become more sensitive to those around us, more merciful and less judgemental.

God has a way with us to transform us and lead us to true happiness. 

Try it!

Pope Francis did and look what God has done with him!

Pope Francis: 

Serve and live in the freedom of God

Pope Francis delivers his homily in Molise on 5 July 2014.

 (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis emphasized the dignity of the human person
 in the realm of work and the call of all members of the Church to service, both to God and to others, in his homily during Mass in Campobasso on Saturday morning.

Thousands of people gathered for the outdoor papal mass, one of the highlights of the Pope’s daylong trip to the city, located in the southern Italian region of Molise.

“The Church is a people who serves God; the Church is a people who lives in the freedom that he gives,” he told the assembly. And this service, he continued, is realized through prayer, adoration, the proclamation of the Gospel and charity in the ordinary of everyday life.

There is much need for commitment in the service of others “in the face of situations of material and spiritual precariousness, especially in the face of unemployment, a plague that requires every effort and much courage on everyone’s part,” he said.

The challenges of work, he said, calls upon the particular responsibility of institutions and of the business and financial world.

“It is necessary to place the dignity of the human person at the centre of every prospect and every action. Other interests, even if legitimate, are secondary,” he said to applause. “At the centre is the dignity of the human person. Why? Because the human person is in the image of God, he was created in the image of God and we are all in the image of God!”

His Holiness is greatly loved by many and loves many!

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