Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites

Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Community of the Sacred Heart, Frederick, Maryland

Our community will meet on the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time, January 17, 2010 at St. John
the Evangelist Parish in Frederick. This is our first meeting of the new year, our first meeting of a
new decade. Our December meeting was cancelled due to that record snowfall so this January
session will be particularly joyful as we come together for the first time in two months. As St.
Teresa says: “What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!”

Day of Recollection in Lent
After our very successful retreat last summer, we
decided to arrange a Day of Recollection during
Lent. We wanted to recreate the retreat experience
over a shorter period of time in association with the
seasons of the Church. It may seem very early to
think about Easter but Ash Wednesday is only a few
weeks away. It arrives on February 17. Lent is very
Carmelite season, a time of intense understanding of
ourselves, of our relationship with God and an
opportunity to prepare ourselves in union with the
Church for the feast of the Resurrection, and the
reception of the graces that Christ merited by his
passion and death. It will be very fitting for our
Secular Carmelite community to pray together on a
specific day during Lent. Thanks to Isolda
Riveralainez, Mary Rice and Carmen Van Zutphen
we have for the first time ever the opportunity to
come together as a community for a Day of
Recollection in Lent. Thanks to their efforts and the
graciousness of Msgr. Brennan, our Day will be
Saturday March 6, at St. Martin of Tours Catholic
Church, 201 South Frederick Avenue, Gaithersburg.
attend and there will be a sign up sheet at the
community meeting. Please put your name on the
list, or let me know that you will be coming. This
promises to be a wonderful occasion and by making
it successful we can start another tradition within
this faithful community.
Changes in Ongoing Formation
We will be introducing changes in our ongoing
formation process. This will integrate a number of
goals into a new process. Recognizing the needs of
our community, the requirements of the Order and
our Constitutions we will initiate a revised process
very soon. One feature will be our participation with
the entire Carmelite religious family personally and
in community in reading the following specific
works of St. Teresa. This is the schedule:
By Oct 2010: The Life
By Oct 2011: Way of Perfection
By Oct 2012: Foundations
By Oct 2013: Interior castle
By Oct 2014: Testimonies, poems, letters

Program for the Day of Recollection These writings of St. Teresa are all found in the
8.30 optional Rosary three volumes of “The Collected Works of St.
9.00 Eucharistic celebration Teresa of Avila” translated by Father Kieran
9.30 Confessions Kavanaugh, OCD, and Father Otilio Rodriguez,
10.00 Morning Prayer OCD, from ICS publications a ministry of the Friars
10.30 Conference of our Order. Our community will obtain these
11.00 With Blessed Sacrament books so that you have the opportunity to buy what
12.00 Lunch, bring your own you need. Please try to get these books. If for any
1.00 Stations reason you have difficulty getting a copy, please let
1.30 Conference me know personally.
2.00 Divine Mercy There will other revisions to make our ongoing
2.30 Midday prayer formation process even more compelling than it is
3.00 Clean up now.
3.30 Close

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Our Vision is to Live the Teresian Way:
As faithful members of the Church, "in allegiance to Jesus Christ" through "friendship with the One
we know loves us" and in service to the Church. Under the protection of Our Lady of Mount Carmel,
in the biblical tradition of the prophet Elijah and inspired by the teachings of St Teresa of Jesus and
St John of the Cross, we seek to deepen our Christian commitment received in baptism.