CMCS - Carmelite Missionaries Philippines: Parent/Child Retreat Grade VI

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Parent/Child Retreat Grade VI - Understanding

Parent/Child Retreat

"Family in the Year of Faith"

September 6-8, 2013

Speaker: Sr. Loida Tortogo, cm

Facilitators: Srs. Venie, Nona

St. Teresa Hall

Thank you Lord for giving us again these three days… to stop… to slow down… relax… and PRAY.

Throughout the retreat, we were able to reflect our weaknesses and shortcomings as mother and son. We were able to understand and lift up to the Lord our needs.

The sharing and experiences of others made our Faith stronger.

Thank you Lord for we are now purified, transformed, converted and most of all re-affirmed our LOVE to our child and to you our LORD.

When we go home, we commit to continue to live our Faith in our actions and words to you and the rest of our Family. Amen!

Rose Principe

9-8-2013

Lord, thank you that we had a wonderful retreat. Thank you for all the blessings that you gave us. We are always asking for your help and you answer it. Though our retreat ended, we will still pray for your help. Please always answer our prayers. I am thankful that you are always here to guide all of us. I thank you that you are always here for us, even though we have encountered many sins of our lives. And I am sorry for all my sins. Thank you Lord, you accepted us every day. Please let us be safe in your hands. Please cure all the sick people. Thank you Lord… Amen!

Love Ayn L.

Heavenly Father, We praise and thank you for this opportunity to enter into the DOOR OF LIFE – a life’s journey through FAITH. Help us to be ever BURNING with DESIRE to focus on what is the most important to us – OUR FAMILY RELATIONSHIP. Help us to KEEP our focus on YOU. So that our life‘s purpose will be fulfilled according to you will. Amen!

Earl G.

Hear me O Lord to become a beter parent to my kids. Help me to be more patient, understanding and loving. May I give them the time thaty they needed from me. May they always share with me their joys and sorrows so that I will know them better. Thank you for this opportunity to be with my child to share this special event. In Jesus’ name… Amen!

Unknown

Dear Lord, please help me to understand more our topic on our retreat. Please help me to be more careful in what I will do today and to show respect to my parents and to my brothers. Thank you for the blessings you gave to us this weekend. Amen!

Earl Jericho G.

To you I lift up my soul

To you I lift up my goals

To you I lift up my whole

To you I lift up it all.

My faith to you is never fading

My faith to you is never ending

My faith to you is never ceasing

My Faith to you just keeps on growing.

I love you Lord, that is so true

I love you Lord, I’ll never feel blue

I love you Lord, I believe in you

I love you Lord, I know you also do.

Chloe and Chey Eiffert

Thank you Lord for enlightening and giving us more faith, to strengthen our selves and for encouraging us to do good things and for purifying our souls for our peace of mind and heart.

Daniel Paul J.

Dakilang Ama, Maraming salamat po sa lahat ng pagkakataong ipinagkaloob mo sa amin. Dalangin ko po patuloy ang patnubay sa paglalakbay sa buhay na ito. Iaalay kop o ang aking pamilya at bawat pamilya. Ilayo niyo po kami sa ano mang kapahamakan at tukso. Salamat po sa ngalan ng iyong anak na si Hesus aming Panginoon. Amen!

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CM CORNER: WHO ARE WE?

"OUR LIFESTYLE IS CENTERED ON PRAYER, FRATERNAL COMMUNION AND MISSION."

Carmelite Missionaries
Francisco Palau Province
1956 - Foundation in the Philippines
1860 - Founded in Spain

FOUNDER: Blessed Francisco Palau y Quer, OCD

General House - Rome
Mother House - Barcelona, Spain
Provincial House - Q.C. Manila
First foundation - La Paz, Iloilo City

Number of sisters: as of May 2020

CM sisters in the world - 1,317

Present in:

Europe: Spain, Italy, Romania, Poland, France, Portugal.

Latin America: Brazil, Colombia, Peru, El Salvador, Cuba, Chile, Argentina, Guatemala, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Ecuador.

Asia: India, Nepal, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam.

Africa: Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Malawi, Tanzania, Cameroon, Guinea Equatorial, Congo.

Oceania: Australia.

WELCOME TO OUR BLOGSITE!!!

We welcome you to this site of the Carmelite Missionaries Center of Spirituality, Tagaytay City, Philippines.

Three days before the feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel this CMCS blog was born, July 13, 2008.

Nestled in a quiet and cool air of Tagaytay City, the Carmelite Missionaries Center of Spirituality (CMCS)is both a retreat and a conference center for Spirituality located at Iruhin West, Tagaytay City. CMCS Center offers a place of encounter with God and a sense of renewal. It is surrounded by a serene environment of natural beauty where one may seek clarity of spirit and renewal without distraction, be it for a planned program to nourish his or her spiritual growth, or for a time spent alone in quiet, prayerful atmosphere in order to listen more deeply to what what the Lord is saying.

St. Teresa of Avila

St. Teresa of Avila - October 15-Saint Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada (28 March 1515 – 4 October 1582), was a prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun and author during the Counter Reformation, and theologian of contemplative life through mental prayer.Feastday: October 15 Patron of Headache sufferers, Spanish Catholic Writers Birth: March 28, 1515 Death: October 4, 1582 Beatified By: April 24th 1614, Rome by Pope Paul V Canonized By: March 12th 1622, Rome by Pope Gregory XV

St. John of the Cross

Feast: December 14 -John of the Cross (Spanish: San Juan de la Cruz; 1542[1] – 14 December 1591) was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest, who was born at Fontiveros, Old Castile. John of the Cross is known for his writings. Both his poetry and his studies on the growth of the soul are considered the summit of mystical Spanish literature and one of the peaks of all Spanish literature. He was canonized as a saint in 1726 by Pope Benedict XIII. He is one of the thirty-six Doctors of the Church. Saint John of the Cross was born Juan de Yepes y Alvarez, in Fontiveros, Avila, Spain in 1542. His father was employed by wealthy family members as an accountant, but they disowned him when he married a poor woman from the lower class. As a result of his family's poverty, John's family suffered greatly.Feastday: December 14 Patron of Contemplatives, mystics and Spanish poets Birth: 1542 Death: December 14, 1591 Beatified By: January 25, 1675 by Pope Clement X Canonized By: December 27, 1726 by Pope Benedict XIII

Teresa de los Andes

St. Teresa de los Andes (Chile), July 13-Saint Teresa of Jesus (13 July 1900 – 12 April 1920) - born as Juana Fernández Solar - (Spanish: Teresa de Jesús de Los Andes) was a Chilean professed religious from the Discalced Carmelites.[1] Fernández Solar was a pious child but had an often unpredictable temperament for she could be prone to anger and being vain but could also demonstrate her charitable and loving nature; she seemed transformed when she decided to become a nun and her character seemed to change for her sole ambition was to dedicate herself to the service of God.[2] But her time in the convent was cut short due to her contracting an aggressive disease that killed her - she knew she would die but was consoled knowing she would be able to make her profession before she died.Her canonization process opened on 23 April 1976 under Pope Paul VI and she became titled as a Servant of God. The confirmation of her life of heroic virtue on 22 March 1986 allowed for her to be titled as Venerable. Solar was beatified on 3 April 1987 in Chile after a miracle attributed to her from her native land cleared her for beatification while another miracle coming from Chile saw Pope John Paul II canonize her as a saint on 21 March 1993 in Saint Peter's Square.Feastday: July 13 Patron of young people Birth: 1900 Death: 1920 Beatified By: Pope John Paul II Canonized By: Pope John Paul II

Edith Stein

St. Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), August 9Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)Virgin and Martyr Edith Stein, born in 1891 in Breslau, Poland, was the youngest child of a large Jewish family. She was an outstanding student and was well versed in philosophy with a particular interest in phenomenology. Eventually she became interested in the Catholic Faith, and in 1922, she was baptized at the Cathedral Church in Cologne, Germany. Eleven years later Edith entered the Cologne Carmel. Because of the ramifications of politics in Germany, Edith, whose name in religion was Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, was sent to the Carmel at Echt, Holland. When the Nazis conquered Holland, Teresa was arrested, and, with her sister Rose, was sent to the concentration camp at Auschwitz. Teresa died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz in 1942 at the age of fifty-one. In 1987, she was beatified in the large outdoor soccer stadium in Cologne by Pope John Paul II. Out of the unspeakable human suffering caused by the Nazis in western Europe in the 1930's and 1940's, there blossomed the beautiful life of dedication, consecration, prayer, fasting, and penance of Saint Teresa. Even though her life was snuffed out by the satanic evil of genocide, her memory stands as a light undimmed in the midst of evil, darkness, and suffering. She was canonized on October 11, 1998.-

JUANA GRATIAS - FIRST CARMELITE MISSIONARY

Dear Sister Juana, A world so widely interconnected places within our reach the opportunity to know and share the diversity of cultures and religions. This requires me to strengthen my personal and vocational identity by deepening on the understanding of our congregational charism, which one day I accepted as a Carmelite Missionary; a charism that is a legacy of our Founder, Fr. Francisco Palau y Quer. Immersing myself into the roots of our congregational history has led me to recognize you as a key in the transmission of the palautian charism. The first link in this chain of the Carmelite Missionary family continues to this day. Behind a fragile and petite appearance you hid a firmness and energy capable of displaying an unwavering determination in a timely manner, and that at your 21 years of age, you were desirous of reorganizing your life in a radical following of Christ. You were led to leave Gramat. The French people who saw you grow and you were enriched with the serenity of their fields and a balance of a Christian family environment. Your vocational journey soon crossed with the strong and sober personality of Fr. Palau, then exiled in France, as he passed by the diocese of Montauban. His austere spirituality fully impacted you, and since then, you accepted his directives that would set forward your vocational path, forging your spirit in freedom, prudence, generosity, spirit of sacrifice and trust in divine providence. You knew how to perfectly respond to the trust placed in you by Father Palau. You were undoubtedly his most faithful collaborator and confidant in the foundational venture. And, as in all human relationships, your connection with Father Palau knew their hours of crisis; the bond that was tied then did not break ever. You showed it through a tested, permanent and unbeatable fidelity

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