Thérèse of Liseux

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...

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.

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...