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Chronicles of  Karmel

The Mount Carmel:
The Legend.
Once upon a time….
another fairy tale? The reader will ask, and the answer is: it depends on who the reader is, if you're on the right side of this story, the answer is yes!
For the simple fact that it is also your fairy tale, a story like no other, because it is ours. Adventures, joys and sorrows experienced, on the concrete and magical journey on the way to the place where the sun knows no sunset.
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By Hagia Sophia

The Karmel 

The Karmel is a bulletin
 "out of time", that is, it has not defined how many months it will be published. This is more adapted to our current life, and it also helps us to live closer to the realities of eternity, where the clock does not chime and the calendar does not pressure us. But God is All in all and only NEle do we move! In it we seek to share with you some of the riches hidden in the monastic, prophetic and eremitical life of Mount Carmel.
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By The First Light

Domina Loci: The lady of the place

“Behold, a little cloud

rises from the sea”

 (I King 18,44)

We are brought into the land of Carmel and do whatever He says. Like the New Eve, the Immaculate Virgin Mary near the tree of the Cross offers us the Blessed Fruit of Paradise, which is the Eucharistic Heart of Her Son and prepares us for a place, far from the world and from fleeting illusions, where , with our eyes fixed on Jesus, our spirit can rise to eternal things and do whatever He says.

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By Hadsen

Karmel's Meditations

Poetry maintains reason because it floats easily in an endless sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and thus make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion, like Mr. Holbein. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything is a tension. The poet wants only exaltation and expansion, a world in which he can develop. The poet just asks to put his head in the sky. The logical person is the one who tries to put the sky in his head. And it's the head that breaks. (Chesterton - Orthodoxy)

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By Janua Coeli

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