The Discalced Carmelites A New Marian Order （的赤脚的会的玛丽安新秩序）.pdf

The Discalced Carmelites - A New Marian Order In 17th Century Malta - Mary and the Discalced Carmelites by Angelicus Busuttil Dona Teresa de Anumada y Cepeda became Teresa of Jesus in the Reform of Carmel which she had begun by founding with the full weight of authority the convent of our most glorious father Saint Joseph in the year 1562, ... when the Lord was pleased that some of the sisters should take the habit on Saint Bartholomews Day (1) Yet, though this great Spanish Mystic thus began her own Order of the Discalced Carmelites within her own city of Avila on the 24th of August 1562, she was inspired to do so by the rich spiritual traditions of Carmel, as manifested in the long and checkered history of the Carmelites from their cradle on the slopes of Mount Carmel. St. Teresa of Jesus had lived as a Carmelite nun at the Convent of the Incarnation outside the walls of Avila for over a quarter of a century, so that her own experience and knowledge of existing traditions filled her with the hermetical spirit, the Elianic spirit and, above all, the Marian spirit of Carmel. (2) That St. Teresa was imbued with this Marian spirit is evident in all her writings, wherein she refers to the Virgin Mary as Mother, Lady, Queen, Empress, Heavenly Prioress of the Order, and to the Scapular as Our Ladys habit in Marys own Order, so that she does not hesitate to declare that she had undertaken the great work of the Carmelite Reform for the greater glory of the Virgin Mother and Queen.(3) The new Constitution of the Discalced Carmelites - as their official name of Discalced Brothers of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel clearly shows to all - emphasize all this in chapter 3 of Part I, entitled: The Blessed Virgin in our life. The Constitutions declare that the Orders dedication to Marys love and service form a special bond with Our Lady which pervades the Orders communities and stamps the life of their members with a distinctly Marian cha