Carmelite Quotes<blockquote><p><span><strong><span class="">November 7</span></strong></span><br><strong>BLESSED FRANCIS OF JESUS MARY JOSEPH</strong><br><strong>PALAU Y QUER</strong><br><span><strong><span class="">Priest</span></strong></span></p></blockquote><p><span><span class="">Optional Memorial</span></span></p><p>Born in Aytona, Lerida, on December 29, 1811, Blessed Francis Palau y Quer entered the Order in 1832 and was ordained priest in 1836. Civil turmoil forced him to live in exile and outside his community. On his return to Spain in 1851, he founded his “School of Virtue”—which was a model of catechetical teaching—at Barcelona. The school was suppressed and he was unjustly exiled to Ibiza (1854-1860) where he lived at El Vedra in solitude and experienced mystically the vicissitudes of the Church. While in the Balearic Islands he founded the Congregations of Teresian Carmelite Missionary Brothers and Sisters (1860-1861). He preached popular missions and spread love for Our Lady wherever he went. He died at Tarragona on March 20, 1872, and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on April 24, 1980.</p><p>Common of Pastors or Men Religious</p><p><strong>Office of Readings</strong></p><p><span><strong><span class="">Second Reading</span></strong></span><br>From the spiritual writings of Blessed Francis Palau y Quer</p><p><em>The efficacy of prayer in favor of the Church</em></p><p>God in His providence has ordained not to cure our ills or grant us grace without the intervention of prayer. He wishes us to help in saving each other by means of our prayer (cf. Jas 5:16f). If the heavens showered down dew and the clouds rained the righteous One, if the earth opened to bring forth the Savior (cf. Is 45:8), it was God’s good pleasure that His coming should be preceded by the prayers of that singular Virgin who by the beauty of her virtues drew into her womb the uncreated Word of God.</p><p>The Redeemer came, and by constant prayer, He reconciled the world to the Father. If Christ’s prayer and the fruits of His redemptive work are to be applied to any nation or people, or if the gospel message is to enlighten them and they are to have someone to administer the sacraments, it is indispensable that someone or even many persons should have previously won them over and reconciled them to God by earnest entreaties and supplications, by prayers and sacrifices.</p><p>For the purpose, among others, the Eucharistic sacrifice is offered on our altars. This sacred Victim which we present to the Father every day, accompanied by our own petitions, is not simply destined to recall the memory of the life, passion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, but also to oblige God in His goodness to show His graciousness in applying the graces of His Son’s redemption to the nation, province, city, village, or to whatever person or persons for whom the Mass is offered. It is precisely here that we plead with the Father for the redemption of the world, namely, for the conversion of the nations. Before the grace of redemption is applied to the world or, in other words, before the standard of the cross is lifted up among the nations, God the Father ordains that His only Son, made man, should plead with Him by means of ‘prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears’ (Heb 5:7), in the anguish of death and through the shedding of His blood, especially on the altar of the cross that was raised on Calvary.</p><p>In order that God might give His grace to those who do not or cannot ask it, or who do not wish to ask it, He enjoined us to pray for one another, so that we might be saved (Jas 5:16f). If God gave the grace of conversion to St. Augustine, it was due to the prayers of St. Monica; nor would the church have St. Paul, according to one of the fathers, were it not for the prayers of St. Stephen.</p><p>It is noteworthy in this context that the Apostles, who were sent to preach and to teach all nations, acknowledged that the results of their preaching sprang from prayer more than from their words. In fact, at the election of the seven deacons who were charged with external works of charity, they said: ‘But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the Word’ (Acts 6:4). Notice carefully that they say they would devote themselves first of all to prayer and only afterward to the ministry of the Word. For they would never convert any nation until prayer had first obtained the grace of its conversion.</p><p>Christ prayed throughout His entire life, whereas He spent only three years preaching. Since God does not distribute His graces to men except through prayer, because He wishes us to recognize Him as the source from which all good things flow; in like manner, He does not wish to save us from danger, or cure our wounds, or console us in affliction, except by means of this same exercise of prayer.</p><p><strong>Responsory</strong></p><p>R./ Ask and you shall receive; seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you. For whoever asks, receives; whoever seeks, finds; whoever knocks, is admitted. * The prayer of the righteous has great power in its effects.<br>V./ Pray for one another that you may find healing. * The prayer of the righteous has great power in its effects.</p><p><strong>Prayer</strong></p><p>O God,<br>through your Spirit<br>you filled Blessed Francis, your priest,<br>with singular gifts of prayer and apostolic charity.<br>Through his intercession<br>grant that Christ’s beloved Church,<br>refulgent with the beauty of the Virgin Mother Mary,<br>may be an ever more effective universal sacrament of salvation.</p><p>We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,<br>who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit<br>God, for ever and ever.</p> <p>Catholic Church <a href="https://worldcat.org/title/41304501" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">1993, <em>Proper of the Liturgy of the Hours</em></a><em> of the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and the Order of Discalced Carmelites</em> (Rev. and augm.), Institutum Carmelitanum, Rome.</p> <p></p><p><a href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/11/06/palaulit24/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/11/06/palaulit24/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/tag/blessed-francis-palau-y-quer/" target="_blank">#BlessedFrancisPalauYQuer</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/tag/discalced-carmelite/" target="_blank">#DiscalcedCarmelite</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/tag/liturgy-of-the-hours/" target="_blank">#LiturgyOfTheHours</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/tag/optional-memorial/" target="_blank">#optionalMemorial</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/tag/priest/" target="_blank">#priest</a></p>