Flower Of Carmel Hermitage at 200 May St, Enola, PA 17025 US - Desert Spirituality

God Alone Should Absorb A Soul A "Desert Spirituality" involves accepting the poverty of ones own heart, allowing oneself to be led by Jesus through His Word and the gentle voice of the Holy Spirit. It is a call to continuing conversion, a way of discovering the forgiving and healing love of the Father, and of entering more deeply into union with Him. The teaching of St. Peter Damian is important to understanding the solitary communion of the hermit with the entire Church. The prayer of the hermit cannot be strictly solitary, while physically isolated; the hermit is fully present to the Church. Damian called the hermit a minor ecclesia, a Church in miniature, in communion with all of its members. The life is a radical choice of God and a life of radical solidarity with all of humanity. MISSION STATEMENT The hermit lives a life in union with Jesus, the Christ. Following Him in a life of prayer without ceasing, to the Father, through the power of the Holy Spirit, the Living Flame of Love. Giving herself totally to Jesus, her beloved spouse, seeking transformation, in to himself, to be led into the mystical marriage of union with God. Through Him, with Him, and in Him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, to be another humanity and become a healing flame of love through our prayers and sacrifices for world and Holy Mother Church. Offering her life for the sanctification of priests and salvation of the whole world. She is of one mind and heart with the Bishop of Rome and the whole church. She lives a life essentially Eucharistic, in that it remains a hidden life, veiled under the appearance of silence and solitude. A life of service to God and her fellow man, living the Gospels, the beatitudes in her daily life. Seeking total submission to the Will of God, all done in Love and Charity of heart. Giving thanks, praise and Glory to God, in her waking and in her sleeping. She seeks to follow the model of our Mother Mary and prompting of the Holy Spirit as handmaid Of the Lord. She too, like our father Elijah, answers the call deep within her heart: "With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of Hosts." 1 Kings 19:10 With our Mother Teresa of Jesus she says: "God does not give Himself wholly to us until we give wholly to Him." She believes as Saint John of the Cross: The Father spoke one Word, His Son and the Word he always speaks in eternal silence and in silence you will hear Him. She chooses the better part, like Mary our Mother in the silence and solitude where we hear and learn to do His Will. "Do whatever he tells you."

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