Pope Francis Meets With Discalced Carmelite Nuns

The following are excerpts from an address given by Pope Francis to superiors and delegates of
Discalced Carmelite Nuns on April, 18 2024.

". . . yours is a journey in which you allow yourselves to be touched by the love of Christ and union with him, so that his love can pervade your entire existence and find expression in all that you say and do.  The path of contemplation is inherently a path of love. It serves as a ladder that raises us up to God, not to separete us from the world but to ground us more deeply in it, as witnesses of the love we have received.

. . . evangelical hope grants us joy in contemplating our history up to the present, but also empowers us to look ahead to the future with those roots that we have received. And that is called preserving the charism, the dream of moving forward, and that really works."

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