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

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.

Article by an anonymous OCDS member.

I am not called by myself; I am called as one of you, one with you, according to God’s own plan.

Article by an anonymous OCDS member

This morning brought a return to a sense of focus.

Article by Hannah De Lisser, an OCDS member

The wave of ponderings left many things on my heart.