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What Spirituality do you most identify with?  

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You know... I've just realized that this is my 20 year anniversary of knowing I was a Carmelite at heart. Why I didn't join a Carmel from the beginning I'll never know. I was invested in the scapular in 92 and have been third order since...

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Indwelling Trinity

I am definitely Carmelite. In reading of the early history of the Carmelites, the early rule was originally called the "Mystical Rule."

That is very charictaristic of Carmel as the rule of Albert does not preach a specific spirituality. Each Carmelite finds his or her way according to the inner promptings of the Spirit. For me that is one reason why the religious name and title one picks is so very important as it indicates a specific way in which the individual goes to God. Think... Elizabeth of the Trinity... Her deepest devotion was the indwelling of the trinity and the name of Elizabeth meaning house of God. It was through these mysteries that she found her deepest spirituality and response to Her Three. This is how she immolated herself as a victim to God the Father.

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Carmelite and a bit of Franciscan mixed in. (My great-grandmother's village she came from is just east of Assisi, down a winding mountain path. :D ).

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One more for the Franciscans, here! [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/saint.gif[/img] [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/birds.gif[/img] But honestly, if I have to listen to "Make Me a Channel of Your Peace" one more time, I'm going to have to hit something... [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/flex.gif[/img]

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[quote name='be_thou_my_vision' date='13 October 2006 - 06:38 PM' timestamp='1160786332' post='1091104']
There are aspects of all spiritualities that I love and seem like me... so this has been an ongoing question for me!

Is that the case with anyone else?
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Yep. The basis of my spiritual formation began with a Lay Catholic Movement, Regnum Christi. But I have recently gotten really into Carmelite spirituality.

I just recommend pursuing your prayer life and see where that takes you. Then you'll get the groove of what you spirituality really is. It's also wherever Our Lord may lead you

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Julie de Sales

Salesian, but if I were to be more specific about it, consoling the Sacred Heart of Jesus, praying for sinners and for priests, Eucharistic Adoration, these are the aspects of my spirituality so far. 

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Mary+Immaculate<3

Order of the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts of Jesus and Mary, but they're not exactly a spirituality of their own. I asked them is they follow a rule and they told me that they didn't, other than their constitutions, church teachings, and the Gospels. However, they said that they gleaned from the St. Teresa and the Carmelites, Benedictines, and Capuchin Franciscans.

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Mary+Immaculate<3

http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/#EMO_DIR#/wacko.gif I'm very influenced by the spirituality of St. Therese and other Carmelites, and I really love Carmelite spirituality. I also think Franciscan simplicity and poverty is beautiful, and I love the Dominican emphasis on preaching the Truth, and their emphasis on the EUcharist. What does that make me? http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/#EMO_DIR#/think_chin.gif

Check out my post (above) :)
http://Heartsofjesusandmary.com/
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Catherine Therese

I am undeniably Dominican in the way I participate in relationship with the Lord. 

Having said that, I always get a thrill out of encountering different expressions of the universality of the Church. Two weeks ago I went on retreat at a Shrine to Our Lady of Mt. Schoenstatt and learned about their Patro-centric, Marian expression of the Faith. It struck me as very beautiful and whilst it and I are not that perfect fit, there are many aspects of it that really did resonate for me on a very deep level.

 

Has anyone else here ever encountered this Secular Institute?

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I thought I was Franciscan, but recently I've been growing to find I identify more with the Carmelite spirituality. :) Although I have heard that the two spiritualities are very close, and many discerners have a hard time deciding between the two.

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When I first voted on this, I voted as Carmelite but I think I am more of a Franciscan.  I still like Carmelite spirituality, though.  One of these days, I'm going to go to Third Order meetings when I'm not busy with school.  :)

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