☘️ Carmelite poet Jessica Powers imagines heaven as a mystical Ireland beyond the sea.
In The Far Island (1946), the soul becomes a pilgrim ship guided by the saints of Erin toward its true homeland.
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🕯️ On the anniversary of religious profession, Father Gervase Toelle, O.Carm., writes with stark honesty about fidelity when love is stretched to its limit.
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🌅 On New Year’s Day, Jessica Powers reflects on the Virgin Mary as a soul belonging to God alone—and stirs in us the desire to reflect Him, and Him only.
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#NewYearsDay #CatholicPoetry
🕯️ Carmelite poet Jessica Powers reflects on how Come becomes Advent’s word of longing and hope—a simple, steady plea for the God who draws near.
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🕊️ Carmelite poet Jessica Powers writes about the soul's secret sanctuary where God dwells as living flame. Sometimes the interior light overflows, and others glimpse Paradise shining through.
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💧✨ Jessica Powers writes about reading St. Teresa of Avila and seeing souls come alive with grace, like water tangled with light.
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✨ "My soul is out on paths that have no ending and no return." Jessica Powers offers a beautiful remedy for our restless age in her mystical poem about journeying toward God.
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#CatholicPoetry #Prayer #SpiritualJourney
🌟 "God is the strangest of all lovers; His ways are past explaining." Jessica Powers wrote about love that doesn't look like what we expect—sometimes it comes through loss, not gifts.
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Carmelite poet Tim Bete reflects on God's "exorbitant exchange" in confession:
"I know I will be back,
aching to hear Him say,
'I grant you pardon
and peace...'"
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#Confession #CatholicPoetry
🚊 Poet Joachim Smet, O.Carm. transforms a trolley ride into pastoral ministry: "Brief pastor of my momentary flocks." Discovering sacred encounters in rush hour commutes.
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#CatholicPoetry #UrbanSpirituality #Carmelite
🕯️ "All trouble is a white-lit joy that lights my darkest day." St. Titus Brandsma wrote these words from prison in the dark of winter before his transfer to Dachau.
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#CatholicPoetry #TitusBrandsma
🌟 "Lady of the mystic mountain Where the Lord has set His throne, Up its steep way to the Spirit None can walk save love alone."
Jessica Powers celebrates Our Lady of Mount Carmel in this stunning hymn of devotion.
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#OurLadyOfMountCarmel #CatholicPoetry
🎣 Like a fish out of water...
Saint John of the Cross speaks for the soul that longs for heaven while still living in the shadows of earth.
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#SaintJohnoftheCross #CatholicPoetry
Jessica Powers asks Christ the Beggar,
“Must all my purse be emptied in Your hand?”
This 1937 poem haunted her into the cloister of Carmel.
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“Oh, to become a pure pool like the Virgin…”
A Marian reflection from Carmelite poet Jessica Powers.
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“The Good Shepherd goes silently through the lands…”
St. Edith Stein reminds us: Christ is still gathering souls from the depths.
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💬 “I love Abraham,” writes Jessica Powers.
She sees the raw courage of faith in his footsteps—and longs to follow. Mine is a far and lonely journey too.
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