Our Lady of Mount Carmel

“So Ahab sent to all the people of Israel, and gathered the prophets together at Mount Carmel. And Elijah came near to all the people, and said, ‘How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him;…”

Our Lady of Mount Carmel is the name given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role as patroness of the Carmelite Order. Mount Carmel is a mountain range along the northern coast of Israel. It’s here that God publicly answered the prophet Elijah’s prayer, consumed the offering, and confirmed He was a living God. Centuries later, in the 12th century after Christ, a group of hermits gathered on the mountain and committed their lives to prayer and penance, forming the Carmelite Order. The Carmelite Order encouraged devotion to the Blessed Mother as a model of ‘complete fidelity to the Lord.’

The faithful celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, right on Mount Carmel-July 16 – Video- On gloria.tv

https://gloria.tv/video/zSrbC6PqvYbX2wqBXixxJu7M7

Our Lady and the Scapular: The most extraordinary event in English history –
On Rorate

https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2018/07/our-lady-and-scapular-most.html

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, feast day of July 16 July 16-  By Prof. Plinio
Corrêa de Oliveira – On TIA

https://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j082sdOlMountCarmel_7-16.htm

Our Lady of Mount Carmel: History, the Scapular, and Marian Mediation –
On Mother of All Peoples Site

The Order of Carmel traces its routes to the prophet Elijah who dwelt on
Mount Carmel, and is often regarded as the founder and first patriarch of
the Order of Carmel dating back to 850 B.C. (8). On Mount Carmel there is a
grotto known as the “Grotto of the Prophet” which is believed to have served
as an oratory for Elijah, and attached to this grotto is a chapel erected to
Our Lady of Mount Carmel which dates back to 83 A.D. (9). Elijah heard the
voice of the Lord telling him to go and drink of the stream (1 Kings
17:2-5). He obeyed the voice of the Lord, and was chosen by God as a leader
to bring Israelites back to Him (10). According to tradition, Elijah beheld
a manifestation of a “type” of the Blessed Virgin Mary, “the little cloud
like a man’s hand” arising out of the sea (1 Kings 18:44) (11), and some
have traced the title of Mary “Star of the Sea” to this vision of Elijah.

http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/2009/08/our-lady-of-mount-carmel-history-t
he-scapular-a-marian-mediation/

Watch The Saint of the Day — Our Lady of Mount Carmel- July 16th -On Church Militant (2 Minute Video Via YouTube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKUeLTZuOJM

A New Prayerbook for the Emperor Karl League of Prayer – On Novus Motus Liturgicus

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2018/05/a-new-prayerbook-for-emperor-karl.html#.WvBa138h2Uk

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Isaiah 2:2-5

In days to come, the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established as the highest mountain and raised above the hills.

All nations shall stream toward it; many peoples shall come and say: “Come, let us climb the Lord’s mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths.”

For from Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

He shall judge between the nations, and impose terms on many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; one nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again.

O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!

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From the book of the prophet Isaiah- 7:10-14;8:10b;11:1-9

The LORD spoke to Ahaz:  Ask for a sign from the LORD, your God; let it be deep as the nether world, or high as the sky!  But Ahaz answered, “I will not ask! I will not tempt the LORD!”

Then Isaiah said: Listen, O house of David! Is it not enough for you to weary men, must you also weary my God?  Therefore the Lord himself will give you this sign: the virgin shall be with child, and bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel. for “With us is God!”

But a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom. The spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him:  a spirit of wisdom and of understanding, A spirit of counsel and of strength, a spirit of knowledge and of fear of the LORD, and his delight shall be the fear of the LORD.

Not by appearance shall he judge,  nor by hearsay shall he decide,
But he shall judge the poor with justice, mand decide aright for the land’s afflicted.
He shall strike the ruthless with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked Justice shall be the band around his waist, and faithfulness a belt upon his hips.

Then the wolf shall be a guest of the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; The calf and the young lion shall browse together, with a little child to guide them.The cow and the bear shall be neighbors,  together their young shall rest;
the lion shall eat hay like the ox. The baby shall play by the cobra’s den, and the child lay his hand on the adder’s lair.There shall be no harm or ruin on all my holy mountain;
for the earth shall be filled with knowledge of the LORD, as water covers the sea.

Mary conceived in her soul before she conceived in her body- From a sermon by Saint Leo the Great, Pope  

A royal virgin of the house of David is chosen.  She is to bear a holy child, one who is both God and man.  She is to conceive him in her soul before she conceives him in her body.  In the face of so unheard of an event she is to know no fear through ignorance of the divine plan; the angel tells her what is to be accomplished in her by the Holy Spirit.  She believes that there will be no loss of virginity, she who is soon to be the mother of God.  Why should she lose heart at this new form of conceiving when she has been promised that it will be effected through the power of the Most High?  She believes, and her faith is confirmed by the witness of a previous wonder: against all expectation Elizabeth is made fruitful.  God has enabled a barren woman to be with child; he must be believed when he makes the same promise to a virgin.

The son of God who was in the beginning with God, through whom all things were made, without whom nothing was made, became man to free him from eternal death.  He stooped down to take up our lowliness without loss to his own glory.  He remained what he was; he took up what he was not.  He wanted to join the very nature of a servant to that nature in which he is equal to God the Father.  He wanted to unite both natures in an alliance so wonderful that the glory of the greater would not annihilate the lesser, nor the taking up of the lower diminish the greatness of the higher.

What belongs to each nature is preserved intact and meets the other in one person: lowliness is taken up by greatness, weakness by power, mortality by eternity.  To pay the debt of our human condition, a nature incapable of suffering is united to a nature capable of suffering, and true God and true man are forged into the unity that is the Lord.  This was done to make possible the kind of remedy that fitted our human need: one and the same mediator between God and men able to die because of one nature, able to rise again because of the other. It was fitting, therefore, that the birth which brings salvation brought no corruption to virginal integrity; the bringing forth of Truth was at the same time the safeguarding of virginity.

Dearly beloved, this kind of birth was fitting for Christ, the power and the wisdom of God: a birth in which he was one with us in our human nature but far above us in his divinity.  If he were not true God, he would not be able to bring us healing; if he were not true man, he would not be able to give us an example.

And so at the birth of our Lord, the angels sing in joy: Glory to God in the highest, and they proclaim peace to his people on earth as they see the heavenly Jerusalem being built from all the nations of the world.  If the angels on high are so exultant at this marvelous work of God’s goodness, what joy should it not bring to the lowly hearts of men?

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