Blessed Maria Teresa of St. Joseph
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This is the Facebook page dedicated to promote the cause of Blessed Mother Maria Teresa of St. Joseph, Foundress of the Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus (Carmel DCJ) Visit http://www.carmeldcj.nl/ Blessed Maria Teresa of St. Joseph
Foundress of the Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus
Blessed Maria Teresa of St. Joseph -- Anna Maria Tauscher -- was born on June , 19, 1855 in Sandow, Germany, which is now in Poland. She came from a deeply
religious Protestant pastor's family. God guided this richly talented and capable woman on steep and stony roads to the Catholic faith. On October 30, 1888 she was received into the Catholic Church. From then on she herself became poor for the sake of the poor, homeless for the sake of the homeless. She placed her life in the service of God. In order to realize this goal, she founded a religious Congregation, the Carmel of the Divine Heart of Jesus on July , 1, 1891.
Mother Maria Teresa took for a model St. Teresa of Jesus, the great Spanish Mystic and Reformer of the Order of Carmel. Mother Maria Teresa took the Carmelite spirit of prayer and coupled it with apostolic service. Her concern was aimed especially at poor and neglected children, above all those who had no home. Her loving dedication was further directed to families and individuals who had left the Church, to the lonely, the aged, to immigrants and transient workers--simply all who were homeless in any way. So it was that contemplative prayer coupled with active charity became the distinguishing mark of the Carmel of the Divine Heart of Jesus.
After a long life of dedicated service, Mother Maria Teresa died at the age of 83 on September , 8 at the Mother House of the Carmel DCJ, in Sittard, Holland. Bishop W. Lemmens opened her beatification process in Sittard on February ,2, 1953. On December20,2002 Pope John Paul II declared Mother Mary Teresa of St. Joseph venerable. In December 2005, Pope Benedict XVI approved the miracle necessary for her beatification. Mother Maria Teresa was beatified on May 13, 2006 in Roermond, Netherlands.
Before her death she wrote: "To be able to dry tears, to heal wounds of souls from the heights of heaven, this is my ardent wish."
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6130 AA Sittard
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facebook.com10 March 2018 - 92nd DEATH ANNIVERSARY of the SERVANT OF GOD SR. MARY THERESIA OF THE HOLY TRINITY (Therese Ijsseldjik) We recommend to everyone her prayerful intercession especially today that we commemorate her birth in heaven... Little Passion Flower of the Carmel of the Divine Heart of Jesus, pray for us!
Today we start the powerful novena to Saint Joseph... Come and join us in thanksgiving for his life, example and powerful intercession...
LENTEN SAYINGS OF LIEBE MUTTER - 7 MARCH: “The more they share in the Cross of Jesus Christ, the more joyous and grateful they ought to be... (From the Directory of Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus)
In the month of March, we will celebrate the feast of St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus. Blessed Mother Maria-Teresa had a special devotion to St. Joseph, she entrusted him all the children in her homes which were called St. Joseph's homes, and he never failed in helping her to get food for all the poor children. She said, as he took care of the Child Jesus, he will now also take care of the little brothers and sisters of Jesus. And she choose him as patron saint in her religious name calling herself: Mother Maria-Teresa of St. Joseph. Let us learn from her to love and venerate saint Joseph!
Every 20nd of the month we celebrate in our convents Holy Mass for the canonization of our Blessed Mother Foundress. We are sure that our Heavenly Father will grant us this grace. There are many people who say that for them she is a saint although not yet canonized. Please, help us pray for a miracle that leads to her canonization. Blessed Lenten Season!
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