Cloisters
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Today is St Simon Stock day. He’s the one who received the Brown Scapular from Our Lady of Mt Carmel.
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His branch of the Carmelite charism is known as the Ancient Observance. Here is a link to the Spirituality of the OCarms, as they are called:
http://carmelnet.org/brandsma/html/lectures.html
Here is the main site for the OCarms:
www.ocarm.org
Blessings,
Mrs Cloisters OP
Lay Dominican
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St. Simon Stock - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
Although little is known about Simon Stock's early life, legend has it that the name Stock, meaning 'tree trunk,' derives from the fact that, beginning at age twelve, he lived as a hermit in a hollow tree trunk of an oak tree. It is also believed that, as a young man, he went on a pilgrimage to...
www.catholic.org
His branch of the Carmelite charism is known as the Ancient Observance. Here is a link to the Spirituality of the OCarms, as they are called:
http://carmelnet.org/brandsma/html/lectures.html
Here is the main site for the OCarms:
Carmelites | Carmelitani | Carmelitas :: O.Carm Curia Official :: Ordo fratrum Beatæ Virginis Mariæ de monte Carmelo
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Blessings,
Mrs Cloisters OP
Lay Dominican
http://cloisters.tripod.com/
http://cloisters.tripod.com/charity/