Have you ever noticed how fast paced are the lives of the prophets? That happens when they are filled with God’s command to speak His word so that His people might truly live the covenant. A prophet travels throughout a country, speaking that word with boldness to those in power and those without any power to lead them to conversion and a return to the Lord. Their lives are active and demanding. Elijah is an ...

Peter Berthelot was born at Honfleur (Calvados, France) on Dec. 12, 1600, and as a young man went to sea, visiting Spain, England and America. In 1619 he went to India, where, as cosmographer and first pilot of the kings of France and of Portugal, he distinguished himself by his valor and genius. Proof of the latter are his Maritime Tables, sketched with great ability and preserved in the British Museum (Ms. Sloan 197). In ...

We gather to give God thanks and praise for the blessings he has bestowed on us. Pause in silent prayer for a few moments LEADER 1: As with the earliest Carmelites who gathered together at the Garden of God, Mount Carmel, 800 years ago, this Thanksgiving let those of us who have much and those who have little gather at the welcoming table of the Lord. At this blessed feast, may rich and poor alike remember that we ...

In his seventy-two years of life, St. Raphael was a teacher, engineer, prisoner of war, royal tutor, and a  Discalced Carmelite friar and priest.  Jozef was born to a noble family on September 1, 1835 in Vilnuis, Lithuania, which was inside the Russian partition of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1853 he enlisted in the Russian Imperial Army and entered an engineering academy. From 1858 to 1860 he worked as an army engineer. Jozef also became ...