Catholic Heart and Mind

My traditional annual Holy Thursday repost

Lee (@disciple96) — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:00:27 +0000

+JMJ+ It’s become my tradition to post My first Holy Thursday Experience originally written in 2019, reposted in 2020, and lightly edited it in 2024, to capture my memories of that night way back in 1996, because I really don’t want to lose them as they inevitably fade over time.

“Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that the same affliction befalls your brethren who are in the world.”–1 Peter 5:8-9, Douay-Rheims Bible, public domain.

“Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh, shall find watching. Amen I say to you, that he will gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and passing will minister unto them. And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken open. Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not, the Son of man will come.”–Luke 12:37-40, Douay-Rheims Bible, public domain.

Thanks for reading. And praying. Have a blessed Triduum. And hang on. Easter is just around the corner. May His peace be always with you. +JMJ+

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Holy Week 2026, Thirty Years a Catholic

Lee (@disciple96) — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:11:26 +0000

This image is one I need to sit with for a very long time. Lord, I’m sorry for all the sorrow I’ve caused you.

+JMJ+ Another Lent has gone now, and after all this time I still have days (too few!) when I remember to practice what I preach, and (more, too many more) days when I wonder what the heck I think I’m doing. Who am I kidding? (Current series returns soon.)

Firm resolve, that’s what I need, firm resolve. I firmly resolve to mend my ways, to really do penance this time, to make a heroic effort, any effort, to fan the flame of devotion in my heart, to make a start and follow through, to make a resolution one day and not go back on it the very next.

Ah, to begin again. And again and again. As many times as it takes and it looks like it’s going to take an infinite number of times. My temper gets away from me. My patience? What’s that? Haven’t got any. Oh, I’m supposed to do that. Supposed to practice patience. It’s not something one has, it’s something one does. I keep forgetting that! I ask the Lord for patience and He immediately sends me something—or someone—for me to practice patience on. And what do I do? I get irritated. Scram, don’t bother me! Can’t you see I’m busy being patient over here?

Sigh.

I can always tell when I’m not spending enough time in prayer (is there any such thing?) because I get all prickly. I get all porcupine-y. Be careful where you sit, I may have left a barb or two on the chair. Make one itsy bitsy miniscule bit of progress and then set myself back a lightyear or maybe a parsec or two.

Argh.

It may sound like I’m wallowing in self-pity but I’m not. I’m taking a cold hard look at myself and shaking my head. Time to start making progress. Time to realize that all the talk about needing to make a battle plan for the spiritual life has been, up to this point, talk and not much else. Time to pick a plan and stick with it (my inner procrastinator leaps into panic mode) and do some spiritual exercises that will lead to developing some spiritual muscle, as it were, and get on with it.

Life is short. And I am not getting any younger. There is still time. The Triduum is almost here! Well, maybe it already is. Time is flying. If only I could catch it.

O suffering Jesus, grant that I may read in Your Passion Your love for me.

—Divine Intimacy, Wednesday of Holy Week, p. 401.

Thank you for visiting and reading. May we pick up our cross and follow Him with ever more love and faithfulness until we become SAINTS. God bless you and may His peace be always with you. And may all of this be more than words, for all of us, may it be Reality, lived and known. +JMJ+

Notes and Links

Divine Intimacy: Meditations on the Interior Life for Every Day of the Liturgical Year, by Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene. Kindle: Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3. Vol. 4. (Amazon affiliate links, see Full Disclosure below.)
Or get the print edition in one volume from Sophia Institute Press or from Baronius Press.

Image: The Lord Wept, by James Tissot, via Wikimedia Commons. In the Rosary banner, An angel comforting Jesus before his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane, by Carl Bloch, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

“The Rosary is the ‘weapon’ for these times.” — Padre Pio

Lent, Week Five in the Desert of Carmel – the Annunciation

Lee (@disciple96) — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:46:19 +0000

+JMJ+ Greetings, y’all! I’ve been quoting from I Want to See God by Fr. Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus, OCD this Lent. For today’s Feast of the Annunciation I’m quoting from another Carmelite classic, Divine Intimacy: Meditations on the Interior Life for Every Day of the Liturgical Year, by Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene. Also found some videos featuring artwork depicting the Annunciation. Links in the notes at the end of the post. (Read other posts in the series.)

A few words to put us in a suitable frame of mind on this special day in the life of the Church, in Salvation History, in our lives as followers of Christ.

At your side, O Mary, I wish to learn how to repeat in every circumstance your “Ecce ancilla Domini!” Behold the handmaid of the Lord.

—Divine Intimacy, 374, Annunciation, page 1133.

The Angel sent by God finds the Virgin recollected in solitude, and “being come in,” says to her: “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.” At these words, according to the sacred text, Mary is“troubled”; we must not, however, take this phrase to mean real disturbance, which destroys the peace of the spirit; it means rather a profound astonishment at this unusual greeting, an astonishment so great as to cause a kind of fear. This is Mary’s first reaction to the angelical message, a reaction arising from her deep humility, which makes her think this extraordinary eulogy very strange.

—Ibid., 1133.

Video, The Annunciation of Mary in Art: Fra Angelico’s Timeless Masterpiece, EWTN Vaticano.

Her adherence to Him is both active and passive: Mary wills all that God wills, and she accepts all that He does. Thus Mary appears as the model of a soul completely united to God, fully given up to His divine will.

—Ibid., 1134.

Video, From Nazareth to Florence: The Annunciation of Mary in History and Art, EWTN Vaticano.

The Angel’s explanation does not prevent many future events and circumstances from remaining hidden and obscure to Mary. She finds herself face to face with a mystery, a mystery which she knows intuitively to be rich in suffering; for she has learned from the Sacred Scriptures that the Redeemer will be a man of sorrows, sacrificed for the salvation of mankind.

—Ibid., 1134.

Video, Annunciation from Dom Guéranger,

By this acceptance, the Blessed Virgin becomes intimately associated with the life of suffering of her Son Jesus, and, therefore, with His work of Redemption, thus becoming the spiritual Mother of the human race. This is the divine plan for her, and Mary accepts it wholly, without reserve, precisely because her will is wholly united to the will of God.

Every Christian receives a vocation from God, a mission to fulfill, by means of which he is called to participate in the redemptive work of Jesus.

—Ibid., 1134

“Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee! Not only is God the Son with you, to whom you gave your blood, but also God the Holy Spirit, by means of whose operation you conceived, and also God the Father, who generated from all eternity Him whom you conceived. The Father, who gives you His Son, is with you; the Son is with you, who, wishing to accomplish a prodigious mystery, conceals Himself in your maternal bosom without violating your virginal integrity; the Holy Spirit is with you, who, together with the Father and the Son, sanctifies you. God is truly with you” (St. Bernard).

—Ibid., 1135.

“O Mary, my sweet love, you opened to the eternal Divinity the door of your will, and the Word immediately became incarnate within you. By this you teach me that God, who created me without my help, will not save me without it. . .but knocks at the door of my will and waits for me to open it to Him” (St. Catherine of Siena).

O Mary, by the ineffable mystery which was accomplished in you I beg you to teach me and help me always to open wide the door of my soul to every divine appeal, to every solicitation of grace. At each manifestation of the divine will, may I repeat with you a humble, prompt, “Ecce, fiat!”

—Ibid., 1136.

Video, Fra Angelico’s Annunciation, see how the Archangel Gabriel bows to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thank you for visiting and reading. May we pick up our cross and follow Him with ever more love and faithfulness until we become SAINTS. God bless you and may His peace be always with you. +JMJ+

Notes and Links

Divine Intimacy: Meditations on the Interior Life for Every Day of the Liturgical Year, by Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene. Kindle: Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3. Vol. 4. (Amazon affiliate links, see Full Disclosure below.) Or get the print edition in one volume from Sophia Institute Press or from Baronius Press.
I have not tracked down the quotes in Fr. Gabriel’s book (St. Bernard, St. Catherine of Siena). If I do find them, I’ll update this post.

Image: I Want to See God, I am A Daughter of the Church, cover of the out-of-print two-in-one-volume work by Blessed Fr. Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus, OCD, and Divine Intimacy: Meditations on the Interior Life for Every Day of the Liturgical Year, by Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene. In the post: Annunciation, two by Fra Angelico, first one via the Museo del Prado; second one, via Wikimedia Commons, a fresco, monastery, San Marcos. In the Rosary banner, An angel comforting Jesus before his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane, by Carl Bloch, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

“The Rosary is the ‘weapon’ for these times.” — Padre Pio

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Lent, Week Four in the Desert of Carmel, Mental Prayer, Part 1

Lee (@disciple96) — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:40:23 +0000

+JMJ+ I’m continuing to re-read I Want to See God, by Fr. Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus OCD, through Lent. From time time I’ll include quotes from another Carmelite classic by Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene OCD. Links in the notes at the end of the post. (Read other posts in the series. Corrected link.)

Optional prayer before study.

Quoted material begins here.

Mental Prayer

The door of entry into this castle . . . is prayer and meditation. Prayer is holding converse . . .

To know God, to know oneself in the light of God: such is the twofold knowledge that constitutes the foundation of the spiritual life, regulates its movement, indicates its progress, assures its perfection.

As far as I can understand, the door of entry into this castle is prayer and meditation.

Role of prayer in Teresian spirituality

“The door of entry into this Castle … is prayer.” Teresa is writing in the first place for her daughters who are living under the Carmelite rule of Saint Albert. This rule, that codifies the usages of the hermits of Mount Carmel, contains one precept around which all the others gravitate: “Meditate upon the law of the Lord, night and day.”

—I Want to See God, p. 49.

The presence of God is the haven to which the soul must return whenever its several tasks are done. This is what the prophets of the desert did, as also the hermits on Mount Carmel.

A spiritual daughter of these hermits, Saint Teresa like them hungers and thirsts for God. She too lays claim to the silence and the solitude of the desert. Not being able to go there, she will create a desert in the midst of the cities by founding the reformed convent of Saint Joseph of Avila. In it, life will be hermitical, thanks to a strict enclosure, grills, veils, a small number of religious, and solitude in one’s cell. This is the triumph of her genius as an organizer, which excels in working out a great thought by means of a multitude of details.

In solitary silence, souls can and must revive the primitive ideal of continual prayer…Without this habitual intimacy with Jesus, the hermitical setting would make no sense and would have lost its soul. It would offer only ennui or, worse still, a refuge for misanthropy and idleness.

—Ibid., 50-51.

[St. Teresa] is guided by the desire to bring together generous souls who want to pray “for those who are defenders of the Church, and for the preachers and learned men who defend her.”

The mission of the Teresian Reform is to pray for the Church, to maintain within it a high level of prayer, and to teach other souls the ways of prayer.

For Carmelite souls, then, prayer is not only a means of perfection, an exercise of the spiritual life; it is the essential occupation that must fill the day, that must form the woof of the spiritual life. It is the way of perfection that Saint Teresa is going to mark out and describe by summing up in a treatise the counsels that she gave her daughters. It is, moreover, the way of perfection that she herself followed.

—Ibid., 51.

there is no doubt that the teaching of Saint Teresa is addressed to all Christians; or rather, to all interior souls. Does the Church not seem to recognize this by proclaiming the Saint, Mater sphitualium? [Mother of the spiritual.]

Saint Teresa asserts in fact that mental prayer is as necessary as vocal prayer from which it cannot be separated.

“I want you to understand that, if you are to recite the Paternoster well, one thing is needful: you must not leave the side of the Master Who has taught it you.”

You are right to say that what we have de- scribed is mental prayer; but I assure you that I cannot distinguish it from vocal prayer faithfully recited with a realization of Who it is that we are addressing. Further, we are under the obligation of trying to pray attentively.”

Better still, mental prayer is identified with every vital movement of grace in our soul. This grace is filial; its essential movement is to rise towards God. When the soul no longer can, nor knows how to make this gesture which constitutes prayer properly so-called, it is because grace is dead, or very near to dying.

—Ibid., 52.

Closing prayer

“O Jesus, obedient even unto the death of the Cross, teach us to follow Your example.” —Divine Intimacy, 121: Come, Follow Me.

Quoted material ends here,

Thank you for visiting and reading. May we pick up our cross and follow Him with ever more love and faithfulness until we become SAINTS. God bless you and may His peace be always with you. +JMJ+

Notes and Links

I Want to See God: A Practical Synthesis of Carmelite Spirituality, Vol. 1, by Blessed Fr. Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus, OCD: Paperback (570 pages). (Amazon affiliate link, see Full Disclosure below.)
I Am a Daughter of the Church: A Practical Synthesis of Carmelite Spirituality, Vol. 2, by Blessed Fr. Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus, OCD: Paperback (696 pages). (Amazon affiliate link, see Full Disclosure below.)
Both books bound together in one volume: I have that one but it seems to be out of print now. You may find it used. (You can use my general link if you search on Amazon.)
St. Teresa’s masterpieces, Interior Castle, ICS Study Edition: Paperback, Kindle. And Way of Perfection, ICS: Paperback, Kindle.
Divine Intimacy: Meditations on the interior life for every day of the Liturgical year, by Fr. Gabriel of St Mary Magdalen, OCD. Kindle: Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3. Vol. 4. (Amazon affiliate links, see Full Disclosure below.) Or get the print edition in one volume from Sophia Institute Press or from Baronius Press.

Image: I Want to See God, I am A Daughter of the Church, cover of the out-of-print two-in-one-volume work by Blessed Fr. Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus, OCD, and Divine Intimacy: Meditations on the Interior Life for Every Day of the Liturgical Year, by Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene. In the Rosary banner, An angel comforting Jesus before his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane, by Carl Bloch, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

“The Rosary is the ‘weapon’ for these times.” — Padre Pio

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Lent, Week Three in the Desert of Carmel

Lee (@disciple96) — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:51:03 +0000

+JMJ+ During Lent I’m continuing to re-read a book, I Want to See God: A Practical Synthesis of Carmelite Spirituality, Vol. 1, by Fr. Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus, OCD, and will be continuing to share quotes from it here on the blog. From time time I may focus on one or two quotes and add thoughts of my own. (If I have any.) I’m including a bit from another Carmelite classic, Divine Intimacy: Meditations on the Interior Life for Every Day of the Liturgical Year, this week as it ties in nicely with our topic. Links and notes at the end of the post.

Quoted material begins here.

c. Evil tendencies

Along with the supernatural riches in the interior castle illumined by the presence of God, Saint Teresa discovers “so many bad things—snakes, vipers, and venomous creatures,” “so venomous and so active and it is so dangerous for us to be among them that it will be a miracle if we escape stumbling over them and falling.” The reptiles represent the forces of evil settled in the soul, the bad tendencies consequent upon original sin. These are formidable powers that we cannot disregard; and so they constitute one of the most important objects of the knowledge of self.

Created in the state of justice and holiness, our first parents had received not only the supernatural gifts of grace, but also preternatural gifts (mastery over their passions, preservation from sickness and death) which ensured the rectitude and harmony of the powers and faculties of human nature. Deprived of these gifts by original sin, human nature remained intact but was wounded by this privation. Thenceforth, the dual, divergent forces of body and spirit war, one against the other…Man discovers in himself concupiscence, the disordinate strivings of the senses; and pride of mind and of the will, or the lusting of these two powers for self-independence. A profound disorder is embedded in human nature.

Adam and Eve transmitted to their posterity human nature such as their sin left it; hence, deprived of the superior gifts that completed it. This privation, with the disordered tendencies that it lets loose, is called original sin. These tendencies will take particular shape in each person according to the education received, the environment frequented, the sins committed, and habits contracted. Thus shaped, they will in turn be strongly rooted in the physical order by the forces and laws of heredity. In each soul, consequently, among the tendencies that accompany original sin, there are dominant ones that seem to win over the energies of the soul to their own profit. Their demands can be extreme. Even when less violent, they are still such formidable powers that it is impossible for the soul not to be carried along to numerous falls.

These tendencies exercise a sort of peaceful reign over the soul in the first Mansions. Combatted in the second, they become irritated and make one suffer. The victory over their external manifestation, obtained in the third Mansions, leaves them still with strength interiorly. They draw sustenance now from less apparent sources to reappear once more on the spiritual plane when the divine light falls upon them there.

The whole of spiritual asceticism is motivated by these inclinations. In order to see the necessity of this asceticism, and guide it efficaciously, the spiritual man must know his evil tendencies, especially his dominant ones.

—I Want To See God (IWTSG), 43-45, Knowledge of self: Evil Tendencies.

B. How to acquire knowledge of self?

The answer to this question should be apparent from what has just been said: It is the action of God in her soul that reveals to Saint Teresa the structure of the interior world; it is the light of God that discovers to her what she is, the value of the supernatural riches and the harmfulness of evil inclinations. The conclusion is clear: it is in the light of God that the soul learns to know itself. This important point of the spiritual doctrine of Saint Teresa deserves to be emphasized.

[St. Teresa] asks the soul not to seek to know itself by analyzing itself directly, but to search itself under the light of God. This is, besides, the best way to know oneself well:

“As I see it, we shall never succeed in knowing ourselves unless we seek to know God: let us think of His greatness and then come back to our own baseness; by looking at His purity we shall see our foul- ness; by meditation upon His humility, we shall see how far we are from being humble.”

[I Interior Castle ii.]

The knowledge of self is precious; “it is the bread which must be eaten with food of every kind,” and yet, adds the Saint, “it must be taken in moderate proportions. When a soul finds itself exhausted and realizes clearly that it has no goodness of its own . . . what need is there for it to waste its time on learning to know itself? It will be wiser to go on to other matters which the Lord sets before it.”

Hence, no examens uselessly prolonged; no repeated returns on self, which would nourish the natural tendencies of the soul, such as melancholy, and would permit the devil to suggest under color of humility all sorts of paralyzing thoughts, for thus:

“We get a distorted idea of our own nature, and, if we never stop thinking about ourselves, I am not surprised if we experience these fears and others which are still worse. It is for this reason, daughters, that I say we must set our eyes upon Christ our Good, from whom we shall learn true humility. . . . Our understanding, as I have said, will then be ennobled, and self-knowledge will not make us timorous and fearful.” [Way of Perfection, xxxix]

—IWTSG, 45-47.

O Jesus, totally consecrated to the glory of the Father through complete forgetfulness of Yourself, teach me how to forget myself.

—Divine Intimacy: Meditations on the Interior Life for Every Day of the Liturgical Year, Prayer, 115 (Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent), page 338.

MEDITATION

i. In order to enter the fullness of the hidden life, it is not enough to hide oneself from the attention of others; we must also hide from ourselves, that is, forget ourselves, avoiding allexcessive concern about ourselves.We can be preoccupiedwith self not only from a material point of view, but also from a spiritual point of view. To be overly concerned about one’s spiritual progress, about the consolations which God gives or does not give, about the state of aridity in which one may be—all this is often the sign of a subtle spiritual egoism, a sign that the soul is more occupied with itself than with God. We must learn to forget ourselves, to hide from ourselves, by refusing to examine too minutely what is happening within our soul, and by not attaching too much importance to it, renouncing even the satisfaction of wanting to know the exact condition of our own spiritual life. It is well to understand that God often permits painful, obscure states just because He wants the soul to live hidden from itself…the negative exercise of not thinking of itself must accompany the positive exercise of fixing its center in Christ, of “burying in Christ” every thought, every preoccupation with self, even in the spiritual order.

—Ibid., 339.

2. A soul entirely oblivious of self is also completely disinterested. It no longer serves God in a mercenary spirit, with more regard for the reward which it may receive than for His glory, but it is “at His service,” according to St. Teresa’s beautiful expression, “gratuitously, as great lords serve their king” (L). This should be the attitude of an interior soul called by God to a life of intimacy with Him. Such a one should act not as a hireling, but as a daughter or a spouse.

—Ibid., 339-340.

COLLOQUY

O my God, teach me how to forget myself, to bury every preoccupation, all excessive care of myself in You. Why do I wish to serve You, O Lord? Why do I desire to love You and to advance in the paths of sanctity? Would it be for my own interest or foolish self-complacency? Oh! how mean the spiritual life which would have such vain and low aims! No, my God, You have created me for Your glory, and Ihumbly ask to be able to live for it alone, without personal interest or satisfaction!

Keep me, then, in the shadow of Your wings, teach me how to serve You out of pure love; show me how to forget myself entirely, to hide all concern for myself in You, to put my soul into Your hands with complete abandon. In order to gain it for You, I give it up to You, I want to lose it in You; in You I shall find it again clothed in Your beauty.

—Divine Intimacy, 115, p. 340-341.

Quoted material ends here.

Thank you for visiting and reading. May we pick up our cross and follow Him with ever more love and faithfulness until we become SAINTS. God bless you and may His peace be always with you. +JMJ+

Notes and Links

I Want to See God: A Practical Synthesis of Carmelite Spirituality, Vol. 1, by Blessed Fr. Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus, OCD: Paperback (570 pages). (Amazon affiliate link, see Full Disclosure below.)
I Am a Daughter of the Church: A Practical Synthesis of Carmelite Spirituality, Vol. 2, by Blessed Fr. Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus, OCD: Paperback (696 pages). (Amazon affiliate link, see Full Disclosure below.)
Both books bound together in one volume: I have that one but it seems to be out of print now. You may find it used.
St. Teresa’s masterpieces, Interior Castle, ICS Study Edition: Paperback, Kindle. And Way of Perfection, ICS: Paperback, Kindle.
Divine Intimacy: Meditations on the Interior Life for Every Day of the Liturgical Year, by Fr. Gabriel of St Mary Magdalen, OCD. Kindle: Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3. Vol. 4. (Amazon affiliate links, see Full Disclosure below.) Or get the print edition in one volume from Sophia Institute Press or from Baronius Press.

Image: I Want to See God, I am A Daughter of the Church, cover of the out-of-print two-in-one-volume work by Blessed Fr. Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus, OCD, and Divine Intimacy: Meditations on the Interior Life for Every Day of the Liturgical Year, by Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene. In the Rosary banner, An angel comforting Jesus before his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane, by Carl Bloch, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

“The Rosary is the ‘weapon’ for these times.” — Padre Pio

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