Our Lady of Mount Carmel,
Saint Simon Stock, Saint Angelus of Jerusalem,
Saint Mary Magdalene de’Pazzi, Saint Teresa of Avila.
Artist: Pietro Novelli (1603–1647).
Date: 1641.
Collection: Museo Diocesano di Palermo
Source/Photographer:
(Wikimedia Commons)
Illustration: CATHOLICISM PURE & SIMPLE
The following Text is from
SOCIETY OF ST. BEDE - LITURGICAL RESOURCES
Carmelite Antiphonale Missarum, 1959.
Sequence for today’s Feast.
Illustration:
From “The Liturgical Year”.
By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Towering over the waves on the shore of the Holy Land, Mount Carmel, together with the short range of the same name, forms a connecting link to two other chains, abounding with glorious memories, namely: The mountains of Galilee on the North, and those of Judea on the South.
In the day of My love, I brought thee out of “Egypt into the land of Carmel” said The Lord to the daughter of Sion, taking the name of Carmel to represent all the Blessings of The Promised Land; and when the crimes of the chosen people were about to bring Judea to ruin, the Prophet cried out: I looked, and behold Carmel was a wilderness: And all its Cities were destroyed at the presence of The Lord, and at the presence of the wrath of His indignation.
But from the midst of the Gentile World a new Sion arose, more loved than the first; eight Centuries beforehand Isaias recognised her by the glory of Libanus, and the beauty of Carmel and Saron which were given her.
In the sacred Canticle, also, the attendants of the Bride sing to the Spouse concerning his well-beloved, that her head is like Carmel, and her hair like the precious threads of Royal Purple carefully woven and dyed.
There was, in fact, around Cape Carmel an abundant fishery of the little shell-fish which furnished the Regal Colour. Not far from there, smoothing away the slopes of the noble mountain, flowed the torrent of Cison, that dragged the carcasses of the Chanaanites, when Deborah won her famous victory.
Here lies the Plain where the Madianites were overthrown, and Sisara felt the power of her that was called the Mother in Israel ?
Here Gedeon, too, marched against Madian in the name of the Woman terrible as an army set in array ? Whose sign he had received in the dew-covered fleece.
Indeed, this glorious Plain of Esdrelon, which stretches away from the foot of Carmel, seems to be surrounded with prophetic indications of her who was destined from the beginning to crush the serpent’s head.
Not far from Esdrelon, a few defiles lead to Bethulia, the City of Judith, type of Mary, who was the true joy of Israel and the honour of her people; while nestling among the Northern hills lies Nazareth, the White City, the Flower of Galilee.
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