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I have no idea who they are as the file was downloaded by a friend for my home fellowships couple of years back.The song on the prayer request page “Father, I Place Into Your Hands” Thank you
The lyrics were oringinally in powerpoint format with the song embedded in it so it can projected on a big screen for all to sing together.You may like to do the same. Feel free to download both the song and lyrics at carmelite-seremban.org/Pray/index.html
And each time you sing the song, pray and thank God for the composer and accompanying singer… that they be richly blessed and rewarded by God.
Love and God bless
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carmelitesister
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Thank you for your prayers to cover everyone. I was at the Carmelite Monastery earlier today and was told busloads of people will come from around the country this Sunday. Minimum expected - 3,000 people and the chapel can only accommodate 400. There will be tents built around the compound and so many technical concerns to look into.
Besides the weather… (it’s about to pour as i write and it has been raining everyday) i wondered how to feed or even provide drinks for the 3,000… instantly, the five loaves and two fishes for 5,000 flashed through my mind… thank you Lord Jesus, for the reassurance… indeed, Let Nothing Disturb Me as we prepare for the big day.
P.S. I’m supposed to prepare the entire Mass proceedings on powerpoint. Please pray for me too… am actually nervous though i put up a brave front with the volunteers today <shhhhhhh!>
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carmelitesister
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Thank you for your prayers to cover everyone. I was at the Carmelite Monastery earlier today and was told busloads of people will come from around the country this Sunday. Minimum expected - 3,000 people and the chapel can only accommodate 400. There will be tents built around the compound and so many technical concerns to look into.
Besides the weather… (it’s about to pour as i write and it has been raining everyday) i wondered how to feed or even provide drinks for the 3,000… instantly, the five loaves and two fishes for 5,000 flashed through my mind… thank you Lord Jesus, for the reassurance… indeed, Let Nothing Disturb Me as we prepare for the big day.
P.S. I’m supposed to prepare the entire Mass proceedings on powerpoint. Please pray for me too… am actually nervous though i put up a brave front with the volunteers today <shhhhhhh!>
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BarbaraTherese
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Keeping you and this very special day in prayer, Sister…I am sure your powerpoint presentation and all other organizing will go very well and I hope that this day will be great weather. It does sound that you have an aweful lot on your plate.
To arrive at that stage where nothing indeed does disturb one is doubtless a journey and what a wonderful arrival of Grace it must be to arrive at that stage; meanwhile we endure happily (another great Grace) that cross of being disturbed on some matters. All is Grace and all is profitable to sanctification and God’s Glory!
It is no mean feat and a victory of Grace too to hide any disturbance from others so they will not be disturbed unduly…and I do remain quite conscious that all this is quite easy to say/write
and quite another matter indeed to have to deal with all you do have to deal with.
“All is well, all is well and all manner of things shall be well”.
http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/16/16_14_2.gifOur Lady of Mt. Carmel pray for them
and this very special day in honour of your Carmel.
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To arrive at that stage where nothing indeed does disturb one is doubtless a journey and what a wonderful arrival of Grace it must be to arrive at that stage; meanwhile we endure happily (another great Grace) that cross of being disturbed on some matters. All is Grace and all is profitable to sanctification and God’s Glory!
It is no mean feat and a victory of Grace too to hide any disturbance from others so they will not be disturbed unduly…and I do remain quite conscious that all this is quite easy to say/write
and quite another matter indeed to have to deal with all you do have to deal with.“All is well, all is well and all manner of things shall be well”.
http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/16/16_14_2.gifOur Lady of Mt. Carmel pray for them
and this very special day in honour of your Carmel.
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carmelitesister
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Dear Barbara and all who prayed for the Carmelites in Malaysia…
I am truly thankful to God Almighty for the cloudy skies throughout the day at the Monastery. At one point, it looked as if it might rain, but it didn’t and it was breezy too. Visitors started coming in as early at 8am and the holy grounds were packed by brunch till end of the event in the evening…
The Inauguration of the Carmelite Monastery yesterday was AWESOME!
I heard that some people cried at the end of Mass when the Archbishop “locked” the gate (Papal Enclosure). People were touched by these nuns who dedicate their entire lives inside to serve the church and to pray for others outside, etc. The sisters don’t come out at all, unless they are ill and have to visit the doctor or dentist. Even when family members or relatives pass on, they don’t go out. Download to view pics and the short Papal Enclosure powerpoint presentation at the end of Mass yesterday - carmelite-seremban.org/files/PPT/Papal-Enclosure.pps
Read a young lady’s experience at the Carmelite Monastery at audreychua.blogspot.com/search/label/Carmelite - There are pictures of the monastery accompanying her story. I had a good laugh and it’s heart-warming too.
I wish you and all Prayer Warriors here were at Carmelite Monastery to experience it all first hand. Barbara, for your special prayers for me to work on the powerpoint presentation, please view the final product at carmelite-seremban.org/files/PPT/CARMEL_MASS_FINAL.zip - I’ve also included the Mass Proper.doc so you can follow the entire proceedings.
Love and God bless
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BarbaraTherese
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Thank you Sister for all the links above and giving thanks for the good weather and successful day.
I have been very close to a Carmelite prioress for over 25 years now - in fact she is my best pal, so I am very familiar indeed with Carmelite life and spirituality etc. I had the great honor of attending her Golden Jubilee (50years) of profession - both the Mass and celebration after in the enclosure - some years ago.
Blessings - Barb
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johnbilancia
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Thank you for such a wonderful prayer . I also was impressed by the wonderful good work was Done at the new monastery . GOD BLESS YOU AND GOD BLESS THE SISTERS AND THE WONDERFUL PRAYERS THEY DO FOR ALL CONSTANTLY . THANKS AGAIN , JOHN
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carmelitesister
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Thank you! I wish you and everyone here in this forum were there too!
I’ve just hosted some pictures of the Carmelite Monastery and the inauguration, including the papal enclosure (waiting for the rest to come in), take a look at carmelite-seremban.org/Intro/album.html where i’ve included some slides of the powerpoint presentation so visitors can follow the Mass proceedings
I’m most grateful for all the prayers here for me to create that presentation… it’s the best yet i’ve done. Praise and thank God!
Enjoy! and thank God for the Sisters and all the volunteers who helped out at the event. You can see me in the album Behind the Scene…
Love and God bless
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Yva
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Good Lord! There was I under the tent in Seremban Carmel on the 5th August, praying for rain because it was so hot – I was melting!
It was such a beautiful occasion!
I came into this site because I was googling Carmelite Monastery, Seremban, hoping for an e-mail address I could write to. This is just as good.
Dear Sister, I’m so happy that someone in the community is so IT-savvy! And the website is SO BEAUTIFUL! And your album of pics showed better views of the new Carmel than I could get on my digital camera. I got two pics of Archbishop Murphy Pakiam from the back. A headless man distributing holy water. Sr Therese Margaret and I looking the wrong way and not at the camera, blurred pics of the screen through which the sisters attend Mass.]
Yes, it was so moving to have the Archbishop lock the nuns in during the ceremony of Papal Enclosure. And this friend who came with me expressed the notion that the Pope is so heavy-handed – why can’t he be more lenient on the nuns and priests? Had me telling her, look, when you join a club, you follow its rules, by choice, even if the rules are strict. You don’t join another club with lax rules and then criticise how unkind the first club is to have such strict rules. You join with your eyes open. You join because you want to keep the strict rules.
Furthermore, I told her, the nuns are not being locked in like in a prison – they are shutting out the rest of the world so that they can pray better and be completely given to God in prayer and contemplation.
[Everybody reading the following, bear with me as I change tack. If I don’t write this here I’ll have to write a snail mail to say what I want to say, which was why I was googling in the first place.]
Sister, I was the one who brought the mangoes. For the simple reason that when I used to ask nuns in Carmel of Christ the King is there anything they need, I am always told, “Yes. Fruits. We need fruits!” Which is reasonable. Being vegetarian, the nuns get enough vegetables they plant themselves, or buy from the market, but fruits are more expensive, heavy and bulky for the externs to carry home to Carmel, so it helps to be given fruits.
The humongous ones are from Taiwan. I’m not sure about the quality. The medium green ones are called Fajri (from Pakistan) and this is sweet and smooth. The smallest yellow ones are to be eaten when fragrant. These are Chousa, also from Pakistan, which are so sweet you can get sugar from them. I was hoping that the nuns would plant the seeds too, and maybe can thus get an ongoing annual supply.
The Melaleuca products are also from me. Melaleuca is the tea tree. So these are tea tree oil products. When Captain Cook landed in New Zealand (or Australia?) the natives welcomed him and served tea brewed from the leaves of this tree, so that was how it was called the tea tree. You can imagine, if you can drink it, it is non-toxic. So this company called Melaleuca manufactures a wide range of products based on tea tree oil.
Those two small 15 ml bottles contain 100% tea tree oil. You put a few drops on it in water and spray it around and it acts as an antibacterial solution, anti-fungal, and even kills ants and insects! I’m put it onto a painful boil that had just started on my nose, and it was healed within hours! I was most impressed.
During WW II, each Australian soldier carried a bottle of tea tree oil in his first aid kit. It can heal practically everything!
The Melagel (is for insect bites, scratches, bruises, rashes. This is melaleuca oil in jelly so that it won’t evaporate so easily. It is just as potent to cure boils, pimples as the neat tea tree oil. So my sister found out. Her boil disappeared within hours too, using Melagel. So is the Zap It!
Pain-A-Trate are for muscle aches and painful joints. Instructions are on the tube.
I wanted to bring the antibacterial dishwashing liquid and soaps but only managed one small Gold Bar, which is very strongly scented with melaleuca oil. Takes away itches almost completely.
If you like the stuff I will continue to send these to you. No, I am not selling them. Just a user of their products.
Apologies for the half eaten bunch of longans which we were eating on the bus and didn’t finish by the time we got to Carmel so (blush!) left these in the kitchen!!!
I think the nuns would know who i am, by my name Yva. They would have read my novel Star Sapphire, AND the sequel too, which is not published yet. I’m grateful for your feedback.
God Bless All of You, Sisters!
Yva
It was such a beautiful occasion!
I came into this site because I was googling Carmelite Monastery, Seremban, hoping for an e-mail address I could write to. This is just as good.
Dear Sister, I’m so happy that someone in the community is so IT-savvy! And the website is SO BEAUTIFUL! And your album of pics showed better views of the new Carmel than I could get on my digital camera. I got two pics of Archbishop Murphy Pakiam from the back. A headless man distributing holy water. Sr Therese Margaret and I looking the wrong way and not at the camera, blurred pics of the screen through which the sisters attend Mass.]
Yes, it was so moving to have the Archbishop lock the nuns in during the ceremony of Papal Enclosure. And this friend who came with me expressed the notion that the Pope is so heavy-handed – why can’t he be more lenient on the nuns and priests? Had me telling her, look, when you join a club, you follow its rules, by choice, even if the rules are strict. You don’t join another club with lax rules and then criticise how unkind the first club is to have such strict rules. You join with your eyes open. You join because you want to keep the strict rules.
Furthermore, I told her, the nuns are not being locked in like in a prison – they are shutting out the rest of the world so that they can pray better and be completely given to God in prayer and contemplation.
[Everybody reading the following, bear with me as I change tack. If I don’t write this here I’ll have to write a snail mail to say what I want to say, which was why I was googling in the first place.]
Sister, I was the one who brought the mangoes. For the simple reason that when I used to ask nuns in Carmel of Christ the King is there anything they need, I am always told, “Yes. Fruits. We need fruits!” Which is reasonable. Being vegetarian, the nuns get enough vegetables they plant themselves, or buy from the market, but fruits are more expensive, heavy and bulky for the externs to carry home to Carmel, so it helps to be given fruits.
The humongous ones are from Taiwan. I’m not sure about the quality. The medium green ones are called Fajri (from Pakistan) and this is sweet and smooth. The smallest yellow ones are to be eaten when fragrant. These are Chousa, also from Pakistan, which are so sweet you can get sugar from them. I was hoping that the nuns would plant the seeds too, and maybe can thus get an ongoing annual supply.
The Melaleuca products are also from me. Melaleuca is the tea tree. So these are tea tree oil products. When Captain Cook landed in New Zealand (or Australia?) the natives welcomed him and served tea brewed from the leaves of this tree, so that was how it was called the tea tree. You can imagine, if you can drink it, it is non-toxic. So this company called Melaleuca manufactures a wide range of products based on tea tree oil.
Those two small 15 ml bottles contain 100% tea tree oil. You put a few drops on it in water and spray it around and it acts as an antibacterial solution, anti-fungal, and even kills ants and insects! I’m put it onto a painful boil that had just started on my nose, and it was healed within hours! I was most impressed.
During WW II, each Australian soldier carried a bottle of tea tree oil in his first aid kit. It can heal practically everything!
The Melagel (is for insect bites, scratches, bruises, rashes. This is melaleuca oil in jelly so that it won’t evaporate so easily. It is just as potent to cure boils, pimples as the neat tea tree oil. So my sister found out. Her boil disappeared within hours too, using Melagel. So is the Zap It!
Pain-A-Trate are for muscle aches and painful joints. Instructions are on the tube.
I wanted to bring the antibacterial dishwashing liquid and soaps but only managed one small Gold Bar, which is very strongly scented with melaleuca oil. Takes away itches almost completely.
If you like the stuff I will continue to send these to you. No, I am not selling them. Just a user of their products.
Apologies for the half eaten bunch of longans which we were eating on the bus and didn’t finish by the time we got to Carmel so (blush!) left these in the kitchen!!!
I think the nuns would know who i am, by my name Yva. They would have read my novel Star Sapphire, AND the sequel too, which is not published yet. I’m grateful for your feedback.
God Bless All of You, Sisters!
Yva
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jenreg
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good morning sister…I cannot access the website. It seems to tell me I need a password. Am I doing something wrong?
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BarbaraTherese
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I cannot access it either…comes up “Page cannot be found”…
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teegreen
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I can’t access it either. Please keep us posted. I will keep you in my prayers and may I ask that you pray for my family as well…especially my 3 young children. I worry about them and this world’s influence on them. I try to remember to Let nothing disturb me. Please also pray for me as I will be teaching 7 year olds in my 1st CCD class and need all the help I can get. May God Bless you!
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pyropam
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AMEN Sister!!
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BLUEMOON74
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Thank you sister so much for those wonderful profound words of wisdom. My grandmother used to take me to the Carmellite Monastary when I was a little girl in Louisiana, USA. I went and prayed as an adult when the relics of St. Therese were brought to the site. I have always found a sense of comfort and peace there when I would visit. Thank you for dedicating and vocating yourself selflessly to Jesus and for giving me a sense of serenity this evening. 
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