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| 12-05-2012 |
| Sr. Guadalupe OCD St. Joseph Monastary Honduras |
| Dearest M. Teresa |
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We greet you from Honduras and we wish to say how wonderful you have been for us.
At some time in our history each of us had an encounter with you and most of us in the same way, through one of your communities; even if we didn’t know much about you, many of us could discover in them in them something that illuminated and filled us with enthusiasm. They themselves transmitted it through their smiles, faces and eyes, warmness, joy, so full of human understanding, loving experiences and their love for life. Each of their gestures showed that their lives were totally devoted to God, we didn’t know it then, we were seeing you through them. That’s the way we met your ideal, your way of life, your charisma which you received so fully from God . We identified ourselves with this spirit and wanted to live in this way.
After entering Carmel we knew you through your writings and you made it possible that God, who dwells in us”, should become the center and meaning of our lives. This has given us a lot of strength and satisfaction. Later on we have had the opportunity of sharing your experience of “FOUNDATIONS”. From the first day when you came to found this “little dovecote” in Honduras we have proved day by day the faithful and providential love you talk about in your book: “In these foundations we creatures have done next to nothing. The Lord has directed all by means of such lowly beginnings that only His Majesty could have raised the work to what it now is” (F 13:7). We have experienced that He is within us, he walks with us and he encourages each of our steps with your words “When the Lord is pleased that I found one of these houses, it seems that until after the foundation is made my mind doesn’t admit any reason that would seem sufficient to set the work aside. After the deed is done, all the difficulties come before me together, as will be seen later” (F 3:4). God is faithful and you show it “You will see that in part these houses, most of them have not been founded by men but by the powerful hand of God and that His Majesty is very fond of advancing the works He accomplishes provided we cooperate” (F 27:11). He doesn’t avoid the opportunity to show Himself to us and to show his love for us.
Our dear mother Teresa: I can prove that you live with and among us, within us, encouraging us at each moment, so that in all our success and mistakes, we can discover that God gives Himself to us and he wishes to keep on doing it in order to love us constantly. He did it not only when He lived on earth because He loved you very much, but even today he is loving each of us because He made us special and He keeps on doing it in our times.
Help us my dear Mother so as we can only be occupied in giving Him hospitality and loving Him with the great love we receive from Him. We give thanks to God for making you a complete and warm woman and for carrying out His project of love in our lives.
With all our love,…
Your daughters in the Convent of Saint Joseph
De La Aldea La Brea,
Municipio de Lepaterique, Honduras.
Tegucigalpa, Honduras 28 de Marzo 2012
497 Aniverssary of
Birth of Our Holy Mother
Teresa de Jesús
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| 07-02-2012 |
| Official logo of the Fifth Centenary available |
| The general house of the Discalced Carmelites, in Rome, has placed at the disposition of all the religious communities in the 4 continents, the official logo of the Fifth centenary of Saint Teresa’s birth in English, Italian, German, French and Spani |
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