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Jul 19, 2021 6 tweets 4 min read
🤔DID YOU KNOW? In our #quoteoftheday for #July18, we mentioned Joseph Lémann. He was a devout Jew from Lyon, France who joined the Catholic Church along w/ his twin bro at age 18 after mtg Hermann Cohen. In 1892 they helped found the Carmel of Haifa, seen here.
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1/5 The original monastery was built on the shores of Haifa Bay. It was scenic but unsafe; the nuns fled at the Turkish invasion, so the Turks used it as a hospital. After the nuns returned, the founders of LaFarge Cement built a new monastery (1937), an art deco jewel.
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Jul 19, 2021 16 tweets 5 min read
Quote of the day, 19 July: Silvio José Báez, O.C.D. | "We rest when we seek a "solitary place" (Mk. 6:31) to be silent and enter into ourselves..." carmelitequotes.blog/2021/07/18/19j… “And he said to them, 'Come away to some lonely place all by yourselves and rest for a while'; for there were so many coming and going that there was no time for them even to eat.
Jul 18, 2021 8 tweets 5 min read
Bishop @silviojbaez preaching (Mark 6:34)
"He saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things."

👉🏾"In many of our countries today, people live like "sheep without a shepherd"...
THREAD 1/7 "In many of our countries today, people live like "sheep without a shepherd", not only because of the scandalous lack of trustworthy leadership but also because those who rise to power have no compassion for the people."
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Posoltega, 1999
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Jul 15, 2021 12 tweets 7 min read
🥳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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THREAD 1/11 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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Jun 22, 2021 9 tweets 5 min read
#OTD #history #22June 1948 the British Mandate ended & 50 British soldiers who were stationed at Stella Maris Church & Monastery on Mt Carmel hauled down their flag 🇬🇧 & marched down the street to set sail for England. As the time for their departure approached...
THREAD 1/8 ... the Vicar for the Latin Patriarch🇻🇦 in Jerusalem met a political representative for the new Israeli government 🇮🇱 at Stella Maris Monastery on Mount Carmel at Haifa & pressed him for an assurance that the Carmelites' property, which the British army had requisitioned...
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Jun 20, 2021 5 tweets 5 min read
🌊⛈️Bishop Silvio José Báez, O.C.D. preaching: "In the storm, the disciples cried out in despair, 'Master, don't you care that we are sinking'?" (Mk 4:38).
@silviojbaez #BaezHomilia #GospelOfTheDay
THREAD 1/5 "...Jesus woke up, calmed the wind and the sea and a great calm ensued (Mk 4:39), and then he said to the disciples, "Why are you so afraid? Have you no faith?" (Mk 4:40)...."
Bishop @silviojbaez preaching on the #GospelOfTheDay
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📷Mediterranean seen from Stella Maris, Israel
Jun 6, 2021 5 tweets 4 min read
Bishop @silviojbaez preaching: "The evangelist does not neglect an important detail in relation to the cup of wine, saying: "And they all drank" (Mk 14:23). No one was excluded..."
#CorpusChristiSunday
🎨Vasily Polenov, Last Supper
THREAD 1/4 "...The Eucharist is not a gift offered exclusively to select persons who have attained a high degree of sanctity. The Eucharist is destined for all disciples of Jesus..."
Bishop @silviojbaez
#CorpusChristi Sunday
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May 16, 2021 21 tweets 11 min read
Bishop @silviojbaez addresses one of the most misunderstood and misinterpreted passages in St Mark's Gospel in today's homily, Mk 16:17-18. Let's take a look at his commentary in this thread.
Photo: Snake-handling church (1946) Harlan County, Kentucky (Wikimedia)
THREAD 1/18 "These signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes; if they should drink anything deadly, it will not harm them; they will lay hands on the sick & they will get well" (Mk 16:17-18)
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May 11, 2021 14 tweets 7 min read
I'd like to reinforce in English the observations Bishop @silviojbaez made yesterday in his homily concerning the practice of Gospel values by public servants. This may be of interest to @CarmeliteNick @CatholicForLife and many of our #CatholicTwitter followers.
THREAD 1/13 Bishop @silviojbaez preaching: "Christian love has a social and political dimension. We love when we design & organize social life in such a way that no one suffers misery and no one is excluded; so that unjust suffering is eliminated & human rights are respected..."
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Apr 3, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
Bishop @silviojbaez preaching: "In the crucifixion of Jesus, God has embraced all the pains and sufferings of the world. Love was crucified to be present in all the crosses and in all the crucified of the world...."
#GoodFriday
THREAD 1/4 "...Now we know that God is in our loneliness and pain, that he weeps in our tears and embraces us in our death..." Bishop @silviojbaez #GoodFriday
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Apr 3, 2021 5 tweets 3 min read
Bishop @silviojbaez preaching: "The Cross is the hour of truth and the stage where the story of divine love unfolds, stronger than the destructive force of evil, the cruelty of hatred, and the fanaticism of injustice."
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#GoodFriday "...Throughout his life, Jesus had revealed God's love in word and deed. Now, on the Cross, he does so in a much more eloquent way, silently crying out God's love for every human being...." Bishop @silviojbaez #GoodFriday
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Apr 2, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Bishop @silviojbaez preaching: "At the Last Supper, Jesus also washed the feet of his disciples, which was a job that the slaves used to do in those days...."
THREAD 1/4 "...With that prophetic gesture, Jesus summarized what his life had been and what his death on the cross would be: a life of love and service...." Bishop @silviojbaez preaching
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Jan 8, 2021 5 tweets 5 min read
Read these prophetic words of St. John Paul II and see if you can find a description of #USA society:
"This view of #freedom [which exalts the individual in an absolute way] leads to a serious distortion of #life in society....
#prophecy THREAD 1/5 ..."If the promotion of the self is understood in terms of absolute autonomy, people inevitably reach the point of rejecting one another. Everyone else is considered an enemy from whom one has to defend oneself....
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#USA #StJohnPaul2 #prophetic
Oct 30, 2019 12 tweets 8 min read
THREAD Turkish occupation of Haifa, Mount Carmel and its effect on the Discalced Carmelites
1. Forced Exile 1914
The nuns learn 4 November that their fate is no longer in the hands of their long-time benefactor, the French consul 🇫🇷 but now they answer to the USA vice-consul 🇺🇸 2. Forced Exile: When an impatient Turkish soldier forced his way onto the property for an inspection on the eve of the nuns' departure, he investigated the Hermitage of Elijah. A snake emerged from the darkness and nearly struck the Turk. He fled in haste, the nuns rejoiced.
May 14, 2019 9 tweets 5 min read
Carmelite historian Fr Elias Friedman:
"The extent of the Arab débàcle in Haifa can be judged from the statistics:
> In 1944, of a total population of 128,000, Jews numbered 66,000 (52%)
> in 1948, of a total population of 98,284, Jews numbered 94,718."
bit.ly/Friedman1948🇻🇦 Fr Friedman explains how 4 religious from the Christian Brothers school in Haifa sought secure refuge with the Discalced Carmelites at Stella Maris in January 1948; desperate Arab families followed, until their numbers swelled to over 500
Read more bit.ly/Friedman1948 🇻🇦
Mar 3, 2019 26 tweets 12 min read
.@silviojbaez presented an important conference to a @VidaReligiosa1 symposium in Madrid today on the theme, "In internal and external conflicts, mediation and reconciliation". We present here a summary of this morning's live tweets
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.@silviojbaez states: dialog is the means to overcome destructive relationships that see the other person not only as a simple adversary, but as an enemy and only an enemy; one who has no family; one whose feelings or projects are not considered, because he/she is not human
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Mar 3, 2019 18 tweets 9 min read
.@silviojbaez presented a conference on conflict and dialogue to European religious at the @VidaReligiosa1 symposium in Madrid. We offer a few of his concluding thoughts: "Dialogue is a necessary factor for peace, perhaps not enough, but always essential."
THREAD 1/ .@silviojbaez speaking on the topic of conflict and dialogue: "There is no possible reconciliation without a patient, hopeful, self-denying dialogue, flexible in the negotiable and firm in the non-negotiable."
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Mar 3, 2019 4 tweets 3 min read
.@silviojbaez #Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) THREAD
"God prevents humanity from destroying an essential, sacred part of itself, because it is given and willed by God, which is 'diversity' and 'pluralism'."
1/4 @CarmeliteNick @ocdcuria @johnmcgowan50 @jshocds .@silviojbaez "Diversity is not a secondary phenomenon in the existence of the human being; it is an essential element of humanity and is a condition of brotherhood. Humanity is called to live in history, which means contingencies, eventualities, differences, diversities."
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Nov 23, 2018 9 tweets 9 min read
.@CIDH @IACHumanRights thread follows, describing CONTEXT of more human rights abuses violating rights to #FreedomOfSpeech #FreedomOfThePress #FreedomofExpression #PeacefulAssembly & #PoliticalParticipation by the general public in #Nicaragua #StandUp4HumanRights @xiskya @bfraze .@CIDH
Esta mañana, varías patrullas policiales se apostaron frente a las instalaciones del canal @100noticiasni, donde trabaja el periodista Jaime Arellano, quien informó públicamente a la Policía Nacional sobre la realización de una marcha de protesta este domingo. (2)
Oct 19, 2018 8 tweets 8 min read
CONTEXT @IACHumanRights warns of new wave of repression in #Nicaragua
"... the IACHR notes with concern the aggressions and acts of harassment committed against members of the #CatholicChurch in Nicaragua."
THREAD - PRESS RELEASE 1/7
oas.org/en/iachr/media…
@bfraze @fidesorg CONTEXT @IACHumanRights press release: "On 3 September, the bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa, Rolando Álvarez, was insulted and harassed by pro-government groups at a police checkpoint in the presence of State agents."
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Oct 1, 2018 12 tweets 9 min read
"THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE LOVE, which the Father of mercies pours out through Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit, is a gift granted to the little and the humble so that they may know and proclaim the secrets of the kingdom"
~St John Paul II
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#SomosTeresianos Mother Church also rejoices in noting that throughout history the Lord has continued to reveal himself to the little and the humble, enabling his chosen ones, through the Spirit who "searches everything, even the depths of God"
~St John Paul II
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#SomosTeresianos