{"id":96,"date":"2025-07-16T08:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2025-09-27T21:01:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:01:46","slug":"important-feast-our-lady-of-mt-carmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Important Feast &#8211; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e202c8d3d85ce1200c-300wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11044\" title=\"Our lady of mt carmel 2\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The text is from the Magnificat prayer book this morning. The three minute video is &#8220;neat.&#8221; See what St. Pope John Paul II states at the end of it. And you&#8217;ll also find out what the word Carmel means in Aramaic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This feast, instituted in the 14<span class=\"Exposant_N5\">th<\/span> century for the Carmelite order, commemorates the day in 1251 when the Blessed Mother gave the brown scapular to Saint Simon Stock. \u201cEven now, centuries removed from that original experience and even in places where there are no Carmelites, this holy scapular is still seen as a sign of Mary\u2019s protection and a sign that continues to call people and make them feel that they are the beloved children of the Virgin Mary\u201d (Saint Paul VI). Our Lady invites us to imitate her in a contemplative union with Jesus. \u201cMary was the first, in a way which can never be equaled, to believe and experience that Jesus, the incarnate Word, is the summit, the peak of man\u2019s encounter with God\u201d (Pope Benedict XVI).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0RL_tAKhwGg?si=iRajsgfmFmq1Gjiv\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The text is from the Magnificat prayer book this morning. The three minute video is &#8220;neat.&#8221; See what St. Pope John Paul II states at the end of it. And you&#8217;ll also find out what the word Carmel means in Aramaic.&nbsp; This feast, instituted in the 14th century for the Carmelite order, commemorates the day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11045,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/11045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}