On Opening up to a Better Understanding of the Pastoral Guidance of the Pontiff of our Times - Our First-Ever ‘Jesuit’ - Pope Francis - In the Discerning Light of the Beatitudes of St. Matthew’s Gospel, and Supported by the Ever-Inspiring “Spiritual Childhood” of the Little Doctor, St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face….

Eternity began the day I conceived your soul.

As a Secular Carmelite, like Teresa I am called to live out my mission as a good friend of Jesus, but ‘in the world’.

How is it that a verse from poet’s hand can bridge the chasm from mind to soul?

While in the Chapel after Mass this morning, a feeling of warmth came over me. Like being warmed by a heat, a magnificent flame, I began to think what a gift it was to be here in the presence of my Creator and His faithful Missionary Carmelites of St Teresa.

The capacity to "listen deeply"--an expression I'll use for this particular movement of the heart which, first, the poem and, second, the prayer speak of - this capacity does not come without practice.