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Feasts

Feasts we like to celebrate

Actually one of the words of this title may be unnecessary: Are there some feasts we don't like? Feasts- the praise we offer to the Lord, the ordinary but splendid moments when we share the angels' heavenly liturgy, according to oriental theology; the purest of joys that we will know for all eternity.
Feasts we like to celebrate... Let us mention some of them: first, the feasts of the Universal Church, from the first Sunday of Advent to the Solemnity of Christ the King which is the last Sunday of the liturgical year, and between both of these, the waiting time of Advent, the joyful feasts of Christmas, the austere but splendid Lent and Holy Week, the glorious "alleluias" of Eastertide, and the other feasts and solemnities, even the small ones called the simple "memories"...
Now we should mention our Carmelite feasts: Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Elijah the Prophet, Teresa of Jesus (of Avila) and John of the Cross... and don't forget the "little Flower" of Lisieux, and Mariam of Galilee, and all our favourite saints and blesseds in the family of Carmel...
Finally we remember that we live in a country of many Churches: we are discovering some feasts we didn't know in our own countries...
How can we share with you all that treasure? It's almost impossible, but we will try.

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