{"id":30437,"date":"2014-02-18T14:12:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T18:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=30437"},"modified":"2014-02-18T14:12:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T18:12:26","slug":"carmel-and-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/carmel-and-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmel and Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us who are devoted to the spiritual maternity of Saint Teresa of Jesus (Avila) will note that her method of teaching us to pray begins by engaging in an inner dialogue with Jesus Christ, \u201cwhom we know loves us,\u201d in an attitude of silence and listening. These days the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carmelitaniscalzi.com\/curia-general\/documentos\/ocds\"><strong>Carmelites of the Discalced<\/strong> <\/a>tradition are preparing themselves (and the rest of us) for the <strong>Fifth Centenary of the Birth of Saint Teresa of Jesus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Carmelites a working to create and disseminate songs of harmony, simplicity, and beauty, will aid in praying in the style and thought of Teresa: the point is to pray with the words and spirituality of Saint Teresa so that the persons will be led to contemplate the beauty of the Lord.\u00a0 Here the friars are giving \u201cloving attention\u201d to the role of musical harmony for prayer.<\/p>\n<p>The Superior General of the Discalced Carmelites Father Saverio Cannistr\u00e0 recently met the Holy Father at morning Mass and gave him the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/Sainte-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se-Lisieux-Biographie-1873-1897\/dp\/2204092703\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1392746623&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=therese+gaucher\"><strong>biography of Saint Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of Lisieux<\/strong><\/a> written by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guy_Gaucher\"><strong>Bishop Guy Gaucher, OCD<\/strong><\/a>. It is known that that Pope Francis is follows the way of Saint Th\u00e9r\u00e8se.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us who are devoted to the spiritual maternity of Saint Teresa of Jesus (Avila) will note that her method of teaching us to pray begins by engaging in an inner dialogue with Jesus Christ, \u201cwhom we know loves us,\u201d in an attitude of silence and listening. These days the Carmelites of the Discalced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/carmel-and-pope-francis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Carmel and Pope Francis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,72],"tags":[2074,1789],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30438,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30437\/revisions\/30438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}