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I Want to Radiate God…

Becoming a Light in the Night with Père Jacques de Jésus

We Carmelites invite you to prepare yourselves for Christmaswith this Advent calender with texts from Carmelite Père Jacques deJésus. You can use it to make a retreat in your everyday life,during which you take time to reflect on the texts in prayer.

You can expect a short daily inspirational message chosen fromthe words of Père Jacques and the Gospel for the day. Each Sundayyou will also find a meditation on the Gospel for the day toprepare for the coming week.
Our companion for the season of Advent in this “Year of Prayer” isPère Jacques de Jésus, a French Carmelite priest (1900 – 1945). Heled a Carmelite-run school in Avon, near Paris, where he hid Jewishchildren during World War II. In 1944 he was arrested by theGestapo and finally sent to the concentration camp atMauthausen-Gusen.

Père Jacques will be our light guiding us to Bethlehem, withwhat one of his companions in the concentration camp called his"pure, blazing fire." After the liberation in May 1945, he remaineda few days in the hospital of St. Elizabeth in Linz, Austria, wherehe died in June 1945.

Texts for the Meditations:

Carmelites in Paris – Fr. Jean-Alexandre de Garidel, OCD

Photo Credits:

Archives Carmel Avon, Bild "4. Advent" by BarbaraMüller-Walter
English Translation:
Lynn Gaubatz

Programming:
Christoph Ernst Wottawa