Quote of the day, 13 October: Venerable Maria Lucia
After Our Lady disappeared into the immense expanse of the firmament, we saw beside the sun St. Joseph with the Child Jesus and Our Lady robed in white with a blue mantle. St. Joseph and the Child Jesus appeared to bless the world, for they traced the Sign of the Cross with their hands. A little later this apparition faded. I saw our Lord and Our Lady; it seemed to me it was Our Lady of Sorrows. Our Lord appeared to bless the world in the same manner as St. Joseph had done. This apparition also vanished, and I saw Our Lady once more, this time resembling Our Lady of Carmel (Memoirs of Sister Lucia, I.4.II.5).
Four years later, in 1921, Lucia experienced the first stirring of a religious vocation as she recalled this scene:
I remembered Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and in that moment, I felt the grace of a vocation to religious life and the attractiveness of the Cloister of Carmel. I took as my protection my dear Therese of the Child Jesus.
Discalced Carmelites of Coimbra
A Pathway Under the Gaze of Mary, chap. III, no. 17; chap. V, no. 2
Carmel of St Teresa 2015, A pathway under the gaze of Mary : biography of Sister Maria Lucia of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart O.C.D., Colson, J (trans.), World Apostolate of Fatima USA, Washington NJ.
Featured image: The crowd looking at the Miracle of the Sun during the apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima, Portugal, 13 October 1917. Image credit: Ilustração Portuguesa via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
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