St. Edith Stein (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross)

Dear DLL Jesus,

Hers is an equally beautiful story like all other Carmelite saints. But what I love about Edith Stein is that in 1933 at the age of forty-three, her dreams of entering a Carmelite monastery were finally fulfilled. She moved to a Carmelite Monastery in the Netherlands. This is what I like the most - she getting converted and living in a Carmelite monastery - what a beautiful place to live in - what a beautiful experience!

This is what inspires me the most - to be patient and wait – wait for your perfect timing in my life! If her desire to enter a monastery was fulfilled at the age of 43, even my long-cherished dream of living in a monastery will be fulfilled in your time. If not live, at least stay in a monastery for a few days as an OCDS member when we have our seminars and regional meets and Congress or even provincial level election - at that time, Lord, if it is your will, let me stay in a Carmelite monastery for a few days. Lord, I will wait patiently for that perfect timing!

I love Carmel

I love Carmel from the deepest bottom of my heart!❤️ 

I want to live and die in Carmel!

Oh, what a wonderful privilege to have my spiritual name - Jubilee Cardozo of St. Mary Magdalene - a Saint so close to my heart! A Saint who loved Jesus so much - someone whose life Jesus transformed by his love - just like mine!

What a beautiful privilege it will be to be buried in my scapular and OCDS written on my headstone! I wonder how many of them will come to know when I die? 

Still, I love Carmel and will continue to be in love with Carmel!

I found my Peace in Carmel - a Peace which the world will not be able to take away! 

Not anymore!!!

Beautiful Garden of Carmel

Lord, in your beautiful garden of Carmel

Let me be a flower so rare!

When your angel of peace passes through my midst,

Let me dazzle up his countenance so fair!

Morning and evening let me gently sway

To brighten the angel's way!

One loving glance from the angel of peace

Is what I ask to not shatter into a piece!

Your angel of peace is what I seek

In your beautiful garden of Carmel.

Let my days and nights fill the angel's heart with intrigue and marvel.

My Peace

I found my peace in Carmel,

I found my happiness in Carmel,

My peace and my happiness always existed in Carmel,

I didn't know I just had to seek in Carmel.

Carmel is where my heart belongs,

Carmel is where my soul belongs,

Carmel is where lead all my songs,

Carmel is where I am destined to throng. 

Oh, what peace there is in Carmel, 

In its resplendent beauty, my eyes marvel. 

Now I know your plans, Lord

Now I know why here I trod,

When my life was in crumble,

You beckoned to me the beauty of Carmel!

By Jubilee Cardozo 

Heaven in Faith

St. Elizabeth of the Trinity wrote a lot while at Dijon Carmel. Though she’s best known for her prayer “O My God, Trinity Whom I Adore”, she’s also particularly notable for her HEAVEN IN FAITH, a retreat she wrote three months before her death in 1906. She wrote it not for the nuns, but for her sister, Guite, who at that time was a young mother at home with two small children.

HEAVEN IN FAITH [HF] is the first of St. Elizabeth's major works. Many of her letters were written to her lay friends and HF is one of her four major works which is based on a ten-day retreat that she made.

There are other writings also but HF, which moved her to live heaven here on earth, by adoring God in faith and love, is one of her most loved work.