Flos Carmeli

Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites

Volume 7, Issue 6
June 2014

Our Lady, Mother of Divine Grace, Worthington, Ohio

Apostolate: A life of prayer leading to mystical union with Christ. This prayer, a joining
with Christ in silence and solitude, informs and illuminates the Secular Discalced
Carmelite’s daily apostolates in the family, the workplace, the Church, and the world.

Community Calendar
Something to Ponder: June - Aug 2014
June 14th 2014 – Monthly Meeting
 Hospitality by Konopka/Homan Formation
I want to live for You, Lord Jesus.   table
 Spiritual Bouquet by Community will be for: Fr.
I want to live for You.  William Healy, OCD
I want to die for You, Lord Jesus.
 June 21st 2014 – Pilgrimage to the Shrine of
I want to die for You. Holy Relics at Maria Stein
I want to love for You, Lord Jesus, o Rosary 11:10 AM
o Mass 11:30 AM
I want to love for You.
o Bring your own lunch
Over whelm me,  o Tour of grounds 1:00 PM
Possess me, o On to St. Charles Center 3:30 PM
o Supper 5:00 PM
Consume me, o Benediction 6:05 PM
I want to come to Mystical Union with You. Questions call: Norma Wermert (419) 678-3631
Kathy Homan (419) 925-5620

July 16th (Wednesday) – Feast of Our Lady of Mt.

Carmel

THE GIFTS OF THE St. Timothy Church (1088 Thomas Lane)

Celebrant: Fr. Timothy Hayes
 6:30 PM – Evening Prayer – will be recited
HOLY SPIRIT 
during Eucharistic Exposition
7:00 PM - Holy Mass
From: Divine Intimacy, # 195 on page 582  Refreshments to follow – please bring
something to share
By: Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D.
July 23rd (Wednesday) – Our Lady, Mother of
Divine Grace Feast Day Mass – attendance is
PRESENCE OF GOD – O Holy Spirit, develop expected
Your gifts in me, so that I may respond  6:30 PM – Holy Family Church – meet in
Church at 6:00 PM for Divine Office
generously to Your divine motions. o Conferring of Scapulars
o Accepting of Temporary Promises
MEDITATION - ◦ 1. We have already seen o Hospitality by all members
that it is impossible to arrive at perfect union with August 8th – 10th (Fri. evening – Sun. Noon)
God, at sanctity, without the help of the Holy ANNUAL CARMELITE RETREAT
Spirit. This help is not reserved for privileged St. Theresa’s Retreat Center
souls; it is offered to every Christian. In fact, 5277 E. Broad Street
Columbus, OH 43213
each soul receives at Baptism, together with  5 PM Friday Registration begins
sanctifying grace, the infused virtues and the gifts  Fr. Michael Berry – Retreat Master (98% sure)
of the Holy Spirit. The infused virtues are – Topic : The Graced Invitation to Enter In:
supernatural principles of activity, whereby we Self-knowledge and Conversion with St.
Teresa’s Castle [Mansion 1-4]
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Community Meeting Location
St. Michael’s Church
Marian Hall
5750 North High Street
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are enabled to act virtuously, from a
supernatural, rather than from a human point of
view; thus we can perform meritorious acts and
apply ourselves actively to the acquisition of
holiness. The gifts, on the other hand, are
supernatural principles, permanent dispositions
with which God has enriched our faculties; they
prepare and enable us to receive the help of the
Holy Spirit, to recognize His inspirations, and
follow them. St. Thomas compares them to the
sails of a boat : just as the ship, by means of its
sails, can be driven by the wind, so our souls, by
means of the gifts, have the capacity to be moved
and directed by the Holy Spirit. If a mariner sets
the sails on his boat, he intends to move it not
only by rowing, but also by the force of the wind.
In like manner, when God infuses the gifts of the
Holy Spirit into our souls, He wishes them to
advance, not alone by an active practice of the
virtues, but also by the intervention of the Holy
Spirit. And while the sailor can hoist the sails on
his ship but cannot stir up a breath of the wind,
God, on the contrary, has not only bestowed on
us the gifts of the Holy Spirit, but He also has the
power to put them into action when and as He
wills. The very fact that God has willed to put the
gifts into our spiritual organism, is the most
evident proof that He wishes to intervene in the
work of our sanctification, and to grant us the
help of the Holy Spirit.
◦ 2. The Encyclical Divinum Illud teaches ;
“The just man, who is already living the life of
grace and acting with the aid of the virtues,
needs these seven gifts which are rightly
attributed to the Holy Spirit. By means of them,
man becomes both more docile and stronger in
following with greater readiness and promptness
the divine impulse.” This “divine impulse” is
nothing but the inspiration and motion of the Holy
Spirit. Now man, though by his very nature
endowed with the keenest intellect and
possessing good will, is incapable of
understanding and following this impulse. “The
sensual man” says St. Paul “perceiveth not these
things that are the Spirit of God; for it is
foolishness to him, and he cannot understand” (I
Cor 2:14). See the, how the gifts of the Holy
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Spirit have been given us precisely to make us
aware of this “divine impulse”; without them we
could not receive the motions of the Holy Spirit.
This fact should deepen our understanding of the
great value of these gifts, and hence, of the
importance of their growth in us in all their
plenitude. In fact, the gifts we have received as a
seed, at Baptism, are intended, like sanctifying
grace and the infused virtues, to grow and
develop until we die. It is a very consoling
thought that, due to the profound unity of our
supernatural organism, grace, the virtues, and
the gifts increase simultaneously with and in
proportion to the growth of charity. If we want the
gifts to be fully developed in our soul, we must
practice charity constantly, for with every
advance in divine love, there will be a
corresponding new development of the gifts.
They are the sails of the soul, but these sails can
be let down, weighted by our egoism, our self-
love and attachment to ourselves and to
creatures. Charity, on the contrary, frees them
from every impediment and turns them toward
the gentle breeze of the Holy Spirit. The more
open and full the sails are, the better they will be
able to receive the least impulse of the divines
Paraclete.
COLLOQUY -
“I behold You, O God, Father, Words, and
Spirit, and I know You are looking for Your
creature with sovereign wisdom and eternal
goodness; so that it seems that You have no
glory or pleasure except in Your creature who is
yet so vile. Your Spirit is the love by which You
try to attract him. And his heart which receives
this Spirit is like the bush that Moses saw,
burning but not consumed. With supreme purity,
it burns with the desire that God may never be
offended, and it is consumed with the desire that
God be honored, although it does not seem to be
consumed.
“Come, come Holy Spirit: Come, union of
the Father, contentment of the Word, glory of the
angels. O Spirit of Truth, You are the reward of
the saints, the refreshment of souls, light in
darkness, wealth of the poor, treasure of those
who love, abundance of food for the hungry,
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comfort of pilgrims, and in a work, the One who
contains all treasures.
“O Holy Spirit, with everlasting wisdom you gently
urge rational creatures who want to receive Your
gifts, but You do not take away their liberty. You
knock at all hearts, but You knock gently, urging
each one to prepare to receive these gifts. Softly
singing, You are the source of sweet tears.
Rejoicing and lamenting, You strive ardently that
everyone may be disposed to receive You. May
the intellect admire, and the will and memory
understand Your immense goodness, O Holy
Spirit, in infusing Yourself and all Your gifts into
the soul! O Spirit proceeding from the Father and
the Word, You infuse Yourself into the soul so
gently that it does not understand You, and, not
being understood, Your ineffable gift is esteemed
by few. Yet besides Your goodness, You infuse
into the soul the power of the Father, and the
wisdom of the Son. The soul, having thus
become powerful and wise, is made fit to bear
You within itself as a sweet Guest, cherishing
You, that is, behaving in such a way that You
take pleasure in it and do not leave it” (St. Mary
Magdalen dei Pazzi).

† Intentions of the Month †

Through the intercession of Our Lady and St. Joseph, pray for:

 Repose of the soul of Fr. Richard Pendolphi, the 1st Spiritual Assistant for our community who died May 23 rd
 Marian Costa and our other extended members Theresa Ficek and Lucy Salamony
 Mary Hodgson’s for a successful surgery.
 Sandy Stewart’s husband, Jim.
 Amy Marrocco and her family.
 John Bartz’s complete recovery.
 OLMC’s artist Teresa Satola’s father Raymond Satola has a clot in his heart. He has had several surgeries but now at 92
he is to frail for another operation. Pray for him and for strength and comfort for Teresa.
 For our Mother Community, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel-Columbus in thanksgiving for their gift of such a beautiful community
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 For the many needs expressed by our members and their families

Consider signing up to visit Marian Costa. Carmel is her family, too. Those who have
visited sense she feels abandoned by her family. Sign-up sheet is at the sign-in table.
  2014-2017 Council  
Edith Bellisari, OCDS President (614) 888-6825 edithbellisariocds@gmail.com
Maria Teresa Garnica, OCDS 1st Councilor (614) 370-4208 (cell) maite45@hotmail.com
Judith Gideon, OCDS 2nd Councilor (614) 261-8696 carmeljude3@gmail.com
Norma Wermert, OCDS 3rd Councilor (419) 678-3631 wermert4302@yahoo.com
Marcia Ball, OCDS Formation Director (614) 545-8715 (cell) daveball226@gmail.com

Holy Family Church

Fr. Stanley (Stash) 584 West Broad St.
Dailey Spiritual Assistant Columbus, OH 43215-2710 stash.smc@ameritech.net
(614) 221-4323
  2014-2017 Officers  
Leslie Malek, OCDS Community Secretary (614) 481-3155 LMalek@BizAmericas.com
Maria Teresa Garnica, OCDS Treasurer (614) 370-4208 (cell) maite45@hotmail.com
2014-2017 Committees
Margaret Cassidy Infirmarian (614) 361-5122 aiden11@msn.com

Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites

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Carl Konopka, OCDS Librarian (614) 430-0001 carljong2003@yahoo.com

Sandy Stewart, OCDS Hospitality (614) 837-1893 sstewart47@gmail.com

An announcement of change . . .
Who: Our Lady Mother of Divine Grace Community

What: Our ‘formation year’ is migrating to a ‘calendar year’ format

When: Beginning Jan 2015, but impacting our Sept-Dec 2014 meetings

Where: Same time, same place [St. Michael’s, 9 AM-Noon on the 2nd Saturday of the month]

Why:

1. To more closely conform with the Friar’s changes for Secular’s that began in 2009

2. It aligns us to a full ‘12-month, 24-month and 36-month course of study’ that is verified
on the forms sent to the Main Office for promises and scapulars

3. It aligns better with ‘Dues and Clarion’ payments

4. In election years, it conforms to the ‘calendar year’ that is used to determine eligibility for
voting

5. The East community (Our Lady of Mt. Carmel) has voted to make this change

6. Since Fr. Dailey has agreed to be the East community’s Spiritual Assistant, it logistically
makes the sense for his accepting promises and conferring scapulars

If you wish to correspond with our community’s adopted seminarian his address is:
Scott Perry
6616 Beechmont Avenue

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Cincinnati, OH 45230

If you wish to correspond with our community’s adopted seminarian his address is:
Scott Perry
6616 Beechmont Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45230

Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites

Our Lady, Mother of Divine Grace, Worthington, Ohio