Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Celebrated on July 16th

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This is the patronal feast of the Carmelites. The Order of Carmelites takes its name from Mount Carmel in Israel, which was the first place dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and where a chapel was erected in her honour.

16 July is also the feast of the ‘Scapular of Mount Carmel’ On that day in 1251, pious tradition says, the Blessed Virgin appeared to Saint Simon Stock, General of the Carmelites at Cambridge in England, showed him the scapular and promised supernatural favours and her special protection to his Order and to all persons who would wear her scapular.

To obtain the indulgences and other benefits promised to those who wear the Carmelite scapular, a person must be invested by a priest who has the requisite faculties and must lead a consistent Christian life.

Prayer:

Lord, let the motherly prayer of the glorious Virgin come to our help. Through her support help us reach the true mount which is Christ. Amen.

Another prayer to Our Lady of Mount Carmel is the Flos Carmeli (Flower of Carmel) composed by Saint Simon Stock.

O Beautiful Flower of Carmel, most fruitful vine, splendour of heaven, holy and singular, who brought forth the Son of God, still ever remaining a pure virgin, assist us in our necessity! O Star of the Sea, help and protect us! Show us that you are our Mother! Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, pray for us!
(from ICN)
 
Thanks for the info. I second it, “Our Lady of Mount Carmel,** pray for us!“
 
Dear Rob,

Thanks for posting the icon of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Praying the Liturgy of the Hours for this Feast I was blessed especially by the Antiphon before the Canticle of Zechariah. I thought it might be from the Book of Wisdom but when I looked it up, I discovered it was from the Book of Sirach, Chapter 51 verses 13 - 15 : The Liturgy of the Hours translation is slightly different from the Translation published by the USCCB and shorter:
I have openly sought wisdom in my prayers, and it has blossomed like early Grapes.
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After finding it at the USCCB website, I read the entire Chapter 51 - how very beautiful it is!!! If anyone would like to read it, especially if you have a tender devotion to Mary and perhaps have been reading the threads I’ve been posting from St. Louis De Montfort’s book onthe Love of Eteranal Wisdom or have read St. Louis de Montfort’s book on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin – you’ll be especially happy and blessed in reading this chapter of only 30 verses in the Book of Sirach: To read it, see HERE

Icons have blessed me from the first time I saw one in particular in Combermere, Ontario Canada. I was in the chapel there, at Madonna House, for Midnight Mass and saw an Icon of Mary that impressed me very much. In looking for more information, I found that the icon of Our Lady of Tenderness – now one of my favorites. Mary’s Image on the tilma of St. Juan Diego is probably my favorite image, until I hope to see her heaven. Every icon holds so much for us to “see” by faith, it seems to me. The Eyes of the Virgin in the icon you posted today , like the one of Our Lady of Tenderness (also called Our Lady of Vladimir) also has Mary looking straight at the viewer and Jesus looking at His Mother. How beautiful!

Mary takes her Motherhood of us, so seriously because she heard Jesus tell her from His Cross, while looking at John – “Behold your son”. In John, Mary “saw” all of us and continues to “look for us” as Her Son seeks the lost – where the Mother is there is the Son. The Antiphon for today’s Feast which precedes her Canticle in the Liturgy for this evening is:
“Mary heard the word of God and kept it; she pondered it in her heart”
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Happy, Holy Feast of Mary today and may everyday find us pondering and obeying Jesus words to John and to us and like John may we take Mary into our lives:
Behold your Mother
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Today is also my wedding anniversary! 🙂

I can honestly say that when I got married, I had no idea that I was getting married on the same day as this feast! It was a happy revelation to me when I found out.

God Bless
 
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Dear Rob and DoGod’sBidding,

Thanks for your “hearts” to let me know you read and appreciated what I was trying to say about not only icons but Our Lady on her Feast day yesterday. Often it is difficult to express spiritual realities we may experience by God’s Grace.

Today, July 17 is an older Feast of Mary which is not on calendars anymore but I always remember it since one of the nuns who taught me in College celebrated this Feast as her own. In the religious order to which she belonged each sister chose some Feast day closely related to her name in Religion and this Sister chose the Feast of Mary’s Humility - which was on the Catholic Calendar in those days. Her name was Sister Mary Geraldine, but she loved Mary and I can attest to the fact that this sister though having a PhD and being the Head of her Department was truly humble! 🙂

I’m very grateful to God for the holy men and women He permitted to enter my life so often through the years. Sister taught me more by her example than all I learned from her classes in English Literature.
 
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MariaChristi,
You are quite welcome. This is a wonderful thread and I appreciate you sharing that inspirational story. I appreciate the role that our BVM has played in my salvation journey, and I pray the rosary daily accordingly.

God Bless!
 
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