Today's feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel begs us to
open the door to more of what it means to follow the life of a Carmelite
vocation, in other words. At this point in life I know little of what the Carmelite charism is about and its place in the Schools of Spirituality. However, Veronica Scarisbrick
of Vatican Radio speaks with Father Reginald Foster, an American Discalced
Carmelite priest now living back in the USA after decades of service to the
Church working as a Latinist. Foster was chiefly responsible for the Holy Father's Latin works. At one time, Father
Reginald, with a few others, had to make sure papal documentation
was published in Latin was correct. Father Reginald was also very famous for his Latin
classes in Rome. If you graduated from his classes, then you spoke and read Latin
well. For me, the interesting points of this interview (on the audio clip) are the
one dealing with the Carmelite differences and Elijiah as the spiritual Father
of the founder of the Order; Foster explains the concept of "duplex spiritum."
