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🥳Happy #feastday of #OurLadyofMountCarmel
The sacred scriptures speak of the beauty of Mount Carmel where the prophet Elijah defended the faith of Israel in the living God.
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There, at the beginning of the thirteenth century, under the title of “Saint Mary of Mount Carmel,” the Order of Carmelites had its formal beginning.
Photo: Ruins of the first Carmelite chapel in Wadi es-Siah on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land
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From the fourteenth century this title, recalling the countless blessings of its patroness, began to be celebrated solemnly, first in England and then gradually throughout the whole Order.
Photo: Aylesford, England priory and St Simon Stock shrine
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The title of "Our Lady of Mt Carmel" attained its supreme place from the beginning of the seventeenth century, when the General Chapter declared it to be the principal feast of the Order, and Paul V recognized it as the feast of the Scapular Confraternity.
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Carmelites celebrate July 16 as a Solemnity; the Holy See has designated the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel to be our Patroness and the Head of Our Order. Carmelites are distinguished in this way from other religious orders who were founded by particular saints.
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Because Carmelites observe Our Lady's feast day as a Solemnity, we sing a Sequence Hymn at the Mass in both ordinary form (Novus Ordo) and the extraordinary form (Vetus Ordo). In this video, @karmelici_bosi Carmelite friars from Poland sing 8 stanzas
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Flos Carmeli,
vitis florigera,
splendor caeli,
virgo puerpera
singularis.

Mater mitis
sed viri nescia
Carmelitis
esto propitia
stella maris.

Photo: Conil de la Frontera, Spain
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Radix Iesse
germinans flosculum
nos ad esse
tecum in saeculum
patiaris.

Inter spinas
quae crescis lilium
serva puras
mentes fragilium
tutelaris.

Photo: Discalced Carmelite monastery, Czerna Poland
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Armatura
fortis pugnantium
furunt bella
tende praesidium
scapularis.

Per incerta
prudens consilium
per adversa
iuge solatium
largiaris.

Photo: Metropolitan Cathedral of Santiago de Chile
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Mater dulcis
Carmeli domina,
plebem tuam
reple laetitia
qua bearis.

Paradisi
clavis et ianua,
fac nos duci
quo, Mater, gloria
coronaris.

Photo: July 16 procession "La Carihuela" in Torremolinos, Spain
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PRAYER
Father,
may the prayers of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
Mother and Queen of Carmel,
protect us, and bring us to your holy Mountain,
Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
God for ever and ever.
Amen.
📸@LawrenceOP
Stella Maris Church, Israel
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