The Memorials, A Virgin and Lover of Virginity

St. Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, Memorial of Carmelite Mystic, May 25, 2022

Today, I attended Holy Mass in two different distinctly personal locations that celebrated the Memorial of St. Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, Virgin memorialized for her Beauty and Wisdom.  One was at a Carmelite Parish and the other was at a Carmelite Monastery and by the same Carmelite Priest.  What offered a distinct memorial for this person was her Religion of Virtue which was exemplified in the Carmelite Missal and Church General Memorialization of her Person.  And all of this was significant that it was celebrated by a Carmelite Priest in a Carmelite location of atmosphere and manner of worship.  What I find fulfilling is the CHARISM of the HOLY SPIRIT offering the Church pilgrims a UNION of LOVE for a serious deliverance of learning authentically from a direct condition of persons who have the AUTHORITY to teach the life of a person.  For instance, to learn about the authority of a Carmelite Mystic go to a Carmelite Priest and vice versa.  What it will deliver is the AUTHORITY is known because of the intimate reality of corporal good of meeting at a DIRECTION and EFFORT of REALITY ONLY!

The parish is distinctly unique to the instruction and formed good of the laity and the approach though the same readings and prayers memorializing the Person, its essence and depth will be very seriously distinguished when surround by a community of Cloistered Carmelite Nuns in comparison to the environment of worshipers from the laity.  There is a CALL of HOLINESS distinct by Authority and this is the REALITY of RELATIONSHIP with the person we memorialize.

St. Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi is a favorite Friend of God for me because of my Carmelite Heritage of  Formation and Celibacy and Virginity for the Kingdom.  There are friends in Heaven we relate to especially CARDINAL to all the other friends we find memorialized.  This should find a distinction in how you relate to a person.  She is also memorialized for her Virginity.  How I find this a consolation in the Church in preserving my body in FAITH through Virginity!

What I have discovered is this distinct condition of administration and parish life of seeing a serious care for the REALITY of FAITH in running a parochial endeavor of ministering to the faithful and this is the FINALITY of what parish and Sacrament performs in the ACTION OF GRACE in the faithful who look to these diocesan efforts to REACH THE HEIGHTS of the UNIVERSAL CALL TO HOLINESS!

There are legalities and laws of DIVINE and NATURAL GRACE in offering an apparent life of communal prayer to the faithful brought through a diocesan anticipation of formed delivery and sustaining reality of witness and this is WORK and HARVEST!

I believe the corporal works of mercy need to be SEEN in the VIRGIN!

A person who has lamp alight burning with CHARITY for the DIVINE BRIDEGROOM has work completed and VIRGINITY is FRUITFUL!

It is distasteful to find a Virgin using her body to manipulate a destiny for her own good and only her good.

Meryl Viola Bravo ~