Sin and Discouragement in Prayer and an Interview with a Carmelite Sister: CarmelCast Episode 38

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The interview with Sister Regina Marie starts at 23:08!

[@annstrahlendorf2879]

Please pray the Lord Send the Carmelites Sisters back to the Carmel in PHILADELPHIA 🙏💔📿🙏😢

[@christinewolfteigen7581]

I cried when Sr. Regina shared her experience with God. So touching.

[@williame.sanchez3001]

In these Times all of us should be Carmelites. The wonderful sharing of Sister Regina Marie inspires us all to “rise and leave to Egypt.” Like Saint Joseph and Our Blessed Mother and Infant Jesus. My ancestors left Sevilla, Spain in the late 1500’s and traveled with the Carmelites to be the foundation of the first Carmel in Puebla de Los Angeles, Mexico, New Spain, and from there, over the following decades, spread north including Guadalajara. As Sister shared in today’s program, they eventually migrated further north to Los Angeles, California and San Francisco. On a beautiful Spring day in 1958, when I was five years old, my parents took me as usual to 6am Holy Mass at Carmel in our hometown. Before Mass started a young bride came out of the room where the Priest came from for Mass (the Sacristy) and she walked back to another door where the Sisters sang behind a wall with a grill and curtains, and the young bride disappeared from our sight. I asked my mother where the man was, having recently been a Ring Bearer at a cousins wedding. My mother pointed to the tabernacle on the altar before us: Jesus is the Bridegroom. When we went home that day after mass, my parents explained to me that when women entered the Carmelite Convent they would wear Wedding Dresses that were donated by Brides, and that when my mother and father had been married in San Francisco my mother donated her Wedding Dress to the Carmelite Sisters there. My mother told me that those Carmelite Sisters would pray that those Married Couples who donated their wedding dresses would have a son grow up to be a priest someday. On January 4th 2020, as the Priest Chaplain, I Anointed Mother Mary Louise, the young Bride that entered Carmel at 15 years of age in 1958, the Last Rites, with her Carmelite Sisters around her bed in a small Cell. Praise Be Jesus Christ Now and Forever. -Father William

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What a beautiful story, Fr. William. Thank you for sharing!!

[@BronxCat]

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[@teresaoftheandes6279]

On KZbin you will know them by their ads, lol. Good to see you brothers. Praised be Jesus Christ for your channel.

[@bv459]

Very inspirational video, from beginning to end! My favorite Carmelite is St. Mary of Jesus Crucified. What a spunky spiritual woman she was!

[@savingsarah9456]

So excited to find this channel! I've had a soft spot for Carmelites since visiting Fairfield, PA. Love learning how to follow your ways as a lay person.

[@jennybourge5370]

Another great insightful interview. Thank you Sister Regina Marie for such a heartfelt sharing of your life as a Carmelite sister. May God continue to bless you in your vocation.

[@annamariamullins5350]

Thank you for Carmelllcast, I really like it.AMEN

[@YeomanLocksly]

Life is never without Irony, even in College Western Civ class the prof said many women who wanted to become nuns were forced to marry: not only Mother Luisa but also St, Rita. Likewise many boys and girls who wish they could marry, were put into a monestary by their families. Galileo put his two daughters in a convent. It was probably very rare for any of them to be able to cross over to the life they wanted.

[@tmm4446]

I love the story that Sister told demonstrating that God meets us where we are at 24:36!

[@ICSPublications]

Yes, her words are so powerful!!

[@user-hy7kv9dd7g]

Thank you so much for this beautiful ward.May God bless you brothers and sisters. Do you have any hand made scapular that I could purchase from UK? Thank you xx

[@annmarievalenti9264]

Thank you for these wonderful retreats. HAPPY EASTER!

[@pamelajohansen882]

God bless you also. Thank you

[@maszenia]

What a beautiful interview!!! ❤ thank you ⚘

[@ICSPublications]

Glad you enjoyed it! God bless you, Maria!

[@bethgoodwin7382]

thank you to no end for these videos!

[@luzpalomo2736]

Beautiful!!!

[@JessyP-u6q]

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[@mditt7]

I've been called an" accuser of the brethren" in the past for my questionings. I have been a Catholic all my life, but I am going through a terrible time right now which has gone on for more than a year. I am worn out. I still pray, but it seems empty. I've stopped going to Mass and saying the Rosary because of my weakness. - And the following question keeps haunting me - If God is all Loving, All forgiving and all merciful and all mighty powerful all wise etc etc then why oh why did he not intervene at the fall of Lucifer. Considering the suffering that has been subsequently unleashed why didn't God take Lucifer's free will away? We as parents intervene all the time out of love upon the free will of our children. According to Christian Mythology, Lucifer's free will has literally unleashed hell upon earth. I would sacrifice my free will for eternal bliss in a heartbeat. It seems to me that free will causes all my pain. Please by all means, someone correct me, but please do it intelligently and convincingly. All in all, I am saying this - that the way of The Cross is too much for me amd I keep looking for escape, to no avail.

[@tmm4446]

The problem of evil is the biggest stumbling block to faith, in my opinion. Philosophers and theologians have wrestled with this problem for millennia. That is why faith is truly a leap into trusting that God is good and knows what He is about. Here is a link to a summary of St. Thomas Aquinas’ treatment of the problem of evil, with this quote standing out for me: “God could prevent moral evil by not creating free moral agents. Without free moral agents there would be no moral evil, but then there would be no morally good choices to love and care for those who need our care, either. There is a great good in creating free agents since only such free agents are capable of love.”aquinasonline.com/problem-of-evil/

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Without free will there can be no love. Without love, nothing else matters. God is love.

[@BridgetSpitznagel]

I can see that you are in a lot of pain in this post. Instead of stopping pain, God entered the world and shared our pain at its worst. It is a very strange idea. But, my first concern is not to explain why God did one thing and not another; my first concern is for your health. When someone is in so much pain that they do not want free will, I would check whether this person has a healthcare professional who could screen them for symptoms of depression, which is treatable. It's an invasive thing to suggest to a stranger (even rhetorically) but I would have wanted someone to encourage me to seek help much sooner than I finally did.

[@etcwhatever]

You were starting the process of dark night of the soul. Mother Theresa of Calcuta spend decades in shch a state. The solution is not to leave prayer and Mass it is to push harder. Sometimes im extremely despondent about praying and going to Church. If we push through God loves us more because He sees our effort and that we dont go to him only for feel good sensations. Really please go back to prayer and the sacraments. The devil is very smart but God is All powerfull

[@mditt7]

@@etcwhatever Thank you for your encouragement and direction. I still pray constantly (in my way) for, as one of the disciples said "where else can we go now?" (not that I am. by any means comparing my meagre devotion to the Apostles or Disciples, far far from it)

[@BronxCat]

Visitation yet. ??