{"id":3373,"date":"2020-03-19T12:29:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T12:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carmelitesisters.ie\/?page_id=3373"},"modified":"2021-06-12T10:23:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T10:23:49","slug":"carmelite-spirituality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelitesisters.ie\/about-the-carmelite-sisters\/carmelite-spirituality\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmelite Spirituality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmelitesisters.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/St-Teresa-Inc-scaled.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-trx_addons-thumb-portrait wp-image-4819 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carmelitesisters.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/St-Teresa-Inc-370x493.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"493\" \/><\/a>In the 16th century St Teresa of Avila felt called by God to renew the Carmelite life. St Teresa\u2019s call evolved over time as she grew in prayer and corresponded to God\u2019s grace in her life. Prayer was and is the bedrock of her monasteries. The call is a daily gift of self to God in all the events of the day for the Church and the World.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Her intention was to form communities that should be entirely directed toward prayer and contemplation. To this day Carmelite communities are numerically small, approximately 13 sisters, these sisterly communities are founded on solitude, prayer and simplicity of life style.<\/p>\n<p><strong>St. Elizabeth of the Trinity has this to say:-\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>\u2026always love prayer \u2018that does not mean imposing on oneself a lot of vocal prayers to be recited every day \u2013 rather it is our desire to raise up the soul toward God through all things. This establishes us in a kind of continual communion with the Holy Trinity simply by doing everything in God\u2019s presence. And a soul united to Jesus is a \u2018living smile\u2019 radiating Him and giving Him to others.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; In the 16th century St Teresa of Avila felt called by God to renew the Carmelite life. St Teresa\u2019s call evolved over time as she grew in prayer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":3317,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelitesisters.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelitesisters.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelitesisters.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelitesisters.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelitesisters.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelitesisters.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3373\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelitesisters.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelitesisters.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}