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Posted on 08/16/201212/23/2019by HEATHER KING

Here is an interview with Carmelite contemplative nun Ruth Burrows. And an excerpt from her Essence of Prayer:Many people carry a romantic notion of Carmel. For those who enter it this is quickly destroyed. Almost always there is the shock, the scandal almost, of ordinariness. In Teresa [of Avila]’s thought this blessed ordinariness is where […]

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