Carmelite Spirituality

A life that is brief, uneventful and entirely hidden, if offered to God for the sake of love alone, can be fruitful far beyond the limits of its time and place.

There is a paradox in Christian life and prayer: that God’s light is darkness and God’s nearness is hiddenness. Jesus, the human face of God, is our way and orientation through that darkness and incomprehension which are so often part of our...

This short introduction to the spirituality of the leaders of the Carmelite Reform is a lively and approachable way into their thought and writings. Mother Mary Clare has set them in the context of their historical background in sixteenth-century...

Within a Christian context, we truly follow a vocation when we hear the call of God in our lives and follow it. This book describes the answer to that call in the words of those who seek their spiritual home within a convent.