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Chapter 1: Meditate on the Holy Trinity (adaptations)

4/23/2016

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Meditate on the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
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We begin our Christian life, baptized in the “The name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,” yet I often wonder in modern times if we truly appreciate the importance of this Name or how much emphasis we really place on the Name of God under which we were baptized.

The priest begins mass: “In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.  May the peace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Love of the Father and Grace of the Holy Spirit be with each of you.” And we respond: “And with your spirit.”  How many of us accept the greeting? And how many of us expect him to then say “Good morning.”  Do we realize that we have just been greeted in the most profound way, and with the strongest blessing that can be given to someone, or even remember how powerful of a statement it is to claim One name of God in three?

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Chapter One: Greetings and Good Health (desert reflections)

4/16/2016

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"Albert, called by God's fervor to be Patriarch of the Church in Jerusalem, bids health in the Lord
and the blessing of the Holy Spirit to his beloved sons in Christ, B.,
​and the other hermits under obedience to him, who live near the spring on Mount Carmel."
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I have heard a lot said about the writing of our Rule in the form of a letter, much conjecture about who brother "B." really was, why Patriarch Albert did not use his full name and who precisely were these hermits, but I have not yet heard anyone mention the most interesting part of this opening: The Rule, from the very beginning and first greeting, is trinitarian.  Albert does not merely greet his brothers in Christ, as one could easily and often expect from such a letter, but in the name of the Lord, the Holy Spirit and as sons in Christ.
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He greets the community of hermits, and us, just as we are baptized into the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  I do not know if this was an intentional move by Albert-- it is hard to imagine that anything he wrote was not done intentionally-- but in either case, he is greeting the brothers into their new way of life according to the same way that they had entered and were received into their first life in Christ and under the same name of God.
And so we begin our life, and perhaps it would be fitting to include these words in our profession of vows, with this simple greeting in the name of our One God, that our life from here forward enjoy good health in the Lord, in the blessing of the Holy Spirit as his beloved sons in Christ.
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    Carmel's Way...

    is a series of reflections on the Carmelite Rule, the quintessential letter of St. Albert of Jerusalem which has lead Christians to a life in allegiance with Christ and the Perfection of Love for more than 800 years.  The blog brings the tenants of this ancient Way of Life into a contemporary context.
    ​​At the heart is a Way of Life, in the tradition of Elijah, that leads us to stand in the presence of the One who Loved us first and in a most perfect way; and to be transformed into one who loves more perfectly.

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