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CHARIOT of FIRE Carmelite Vocation Newsletter of the Province of St CHARIOT OF FIRE Carmelite Vocation Newsletter of the Province of St. Elias Winter 2009 Fall 2009 Autumn is beautiful. Outside our offices, surrounding the National Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel are the usual oaks, poplars, and maple trees stretching their limbs into the air with brilliance. The colors of Fall are always spectacular and it never seems to get old. Many of our experiences just become routine. It becomes laborious to suit up and begin again. Our time quickly becomes lost in exams and all the noise that the world has to offer. However, no matter how many times Summer begins to slip into Fall, I am always taken aback. As a boy growing up in East Tennessee, we always made a Fall trip to the Great Smoky Mountains. It was a formative experience in my life. I could sense something greater than this world leading me on a journey of discovery. One filled with mystery and intrigue. I experienced many things, but none that really filled the space left deep within me for knowledge about this world and God. As I ex- plored this God and the Church, I came to believe in Jesus Christ, as the revelation to humanity of the new and everlasting covenant. Reading Scripture and the lives of people that were touched by the Son of God, made the hunger grow deeper. Yes, I do believe, but what now was my deep felt yearning. I prayed. I prayed, a lot. The beauty of Creation was a strong influence on St. Therese of the Child Jesus. St. John of the Cross makes use of images of God from nature to signify love between creature and Creator. As I began to look back on my life, and those early days when I was “blown away” by the beauty of the great Appalachian chain of “A“A chariot chariot of rugged mountains, I thank God for leading me into the of firefire appeared appeared land of Carmel. Discerning a call to an organized andand Elias Elias went went religious group may seem odd in this age that we live. Br. Robert E. Bathe, O.Carm. upup to to heaven heaven in It was the only way I could continue what started in me a whirlwind.” when I was young. A life lived, albeit with struggles and joys, in search of the living face in a whirlwind.” of God. Carmelites are mostly spiritual people strengthened and nourished by the past, but still living as God has called us to search and to discover Him as we proclaim a Kingdom of (2Kings(2Kings 2:11) 2:11) peace, joy and happiness. A search worth the risk and cost. A search for glimpses of life beyond this world into a new world, a new creation. Peace and blessings in Christ our Lord. Taken from the Holy Father’s comments about vocations at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. “In the Gospel, Jesus tells us to pray that the Lord of the harvest will send workers. He even admits that the workers are few in comparison with the abundance of the harvest (cf. Mt 9:37-38). Strange to say, I often think that prayer - the unum necessarium - is the one aspect of vocations work which we tend to forget or to undervalue! Nor am I speaking only of prayer for vocations. Prayer itself, born in Catholic families, nurtured by programs of Christian formation, strengthened by the grace of the sacraments, is the first means by which we come to know the Lord‟s will for our lives. To the extent that we teach young people to pray, and to pray well, we will be cooperating with God‟s call. Programs, plans and pro- jects have their place; but the discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God‟s call.” 2 From the Provincial Very Rev. J. Mario Esposito, O. Carm. I am happy to write to you during this month in which the Church and Order of Carmelites honors two very famous saints and doctors of the Church, St. Therese of the Child Jesus and St. Teresa of Jesus. During this beautiful Fall season in which we also honor the Rosary, these two Carmelite holy women remind us of our primary vocation in Carmel, prayer. The witness of their lives and writings are always alive and fresh, as their experience of the spiritual journey to union with Christ lights our path as well, teaching us to move forward with loving trust for our St. Therese of the Child Merciful Father, walking in the way of Jesus with a pure heart and good conscience. Since being elected Prior Provincial for a second time on June 11, 2009, my life has been busy. Meeting all of the friars again, re-adapting to life in the United States, and immersing myself in the day to day challenges and joys of the St. Elias Province have never left me idle. Besides my life here, I had the privilege of attend- ing the Council of Provinces of our Order in San Felice del Benaco, Italy, from September 3 – 12, 2009. The theme of the meeting was Carmelite community, especially community life as built upon and sharing in the theological virtues of faith, hope and love. This meeting gathered all of the superiors of the Carmelite Order from around the world where Carmelite friars, nuns, sisters and lay members St. Theresa of Jesus are present in over 40 countries. Our Order is experiencing phenomenal growth in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In so many places on every continent, we continue to live our vocation of contemplative service and presence in the midst of the people with the zeal of the Prophet Elias our Father, and the tenderness and love of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. The Order also faces many struggles, of course, especially in areas of great pov- erty and injustice, ethnic struggles, and religious indifferentism that demand new solu- tions and approaches for our whole Church and her religious. Pray and trust – these could be the code words of our two St. Teresa‟s. God bless you always, and Mary keep you in every way, as together we continue to serve God and find our place in His great plan for creation. 3 Prison Ministry by Rev. Gus Graap, O. Carm. I worked with our Lay Carmelites for screen and the TV was dominated by a four years and afterwards I was ap- big, young, bully-type of guy. But when proached by our Provincial who asked if 4:00 came around Mark stood right up I might be interested in part time prison and changed the channel to the game ministry. We received a call from a local and sat down. The big guy stood up and deacon in the Middletown area who switched back to the music. So Mark needed to find a priest to work with him went to the bulletin board, pulled off and with a second deacon in another the notice about the game and read it to prison in order to be hired on as a all the guys. He turned the TV back to Catholic chaplain. I said 1'd give it a try, the game and sat back down. The big he beat the guy over the head with a and told the deacon that I would commit guy got up again and switched it right beer bottle and sent him to the hospital myself for one year. That was fourteen back to the music. Then Mark, by his where he died. He barely remembered years ago. (And, interestingly, both of own account, got up, went to his "cube" what had happened when the police the prisons where I work used to be and put his sneakers on - his fighting came to pick him up the next morning. boys reformatories and were served by sneakers. He had a perfect record in j ail When Charlie was released he returned Carmelites back in the 50's and 60's.) for about 18 years and would probably to the lower East Side of Manhattan and get himself pretty banged up, but he picked up the pieces of his life - espe- Prison ministry is a lot of different didn't care. He walked back into the cially his wife and two boys. One day things, but perhaps I can sum up what room and was poised to attack when a about a year later I ran into Charlie as I makes this ministry so special by way friend from our Sunday Mass group was coming home from helping out at of two stories. The grabbed his arm and Bellevue Hospital. He asked me if 1'd first is about Mark said, "Hey, man, what like to have dinner with him and his fam- Graham who en- are you doing?" Mark ily sometime when I was in the City. I tered the prison said, "That's when I said 1'd love to and we set up a date. It system at 17 years woke up ~ thank was a wonderful occasion and I got to of age on a 20-to- God!" (He smiled.) He meet his third son who was about six life bid. He was a continued, "I went back months old at the time. After dinner his little guy ~ about to my cube, took off wife and kids went their own way while 5'2" and 125 my sneakers, and I Charlie and I sat down to talk.
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