July 16, 2024
The Sisters of Carmel are a cloistered, contemplative order at the Carmelite Monastery of the Sacred Hearts in Colorado. They live a life of prayer and sacrifice for God and neighbor.
In a recent newsletter, they reflected on our troubled world and stressed the importance of focusing on our true home in Heaven.
They wrote: “We know from our faith that Heaven surely exists and is truly ‘the dwelling of God with men.’ Heaven is for us our destiny, rest, reward and homeland. It will be – and must be – the answer to all the woes of life that God’s Providential plan held for each one of us. We are told by the Beloved Disciple [St. John the Evangelist] that God will wipe away all tears from our eyes, and that death shall be no more. ‘Neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore,’ for when we have reached that glorious abode, the former things will have passed away forever. (Apoc. 21) Heaven is all beauty, joy and bliss; all purity and truth.
“Heaven is both the solitude of personal union with God alone and companionship with all the souls of the Blessed who have won the victory and who possess and glorify God. Yes, we will know and live in the company of our Blessed Mother, the angels and all of the wonderful Saints of God….It will be the festive Great Reunion among the redeemed of Christ – all of us marked with His Precious Blood and Wounds, all of us marked with the Cross and wearing the immaculate wedding garment.”
For more information about the Sisters of Carmel in Colorado Springs, visit: (https://www.sistersofcarmel.com)
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Even though loss is constant concern in our lives, we should pause to remember that all of us have a true home in Heaven, where we will meet again.
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