It is no longer me who lives but God who lives in me
I had a very full life: an interesting job, friends, trips that had enriched me with other cultures. I had given up all practice
nun after a catholic childhood but I remained with a thirst for interiority which could not be fulfilled. Read more…
The lover of Jesus
I have been in Carmel for 63 years, where I entered at 23. Above all, I received my faith from my mother, a very fervent woman who herself had thought about religious life; from my father, who had become a believer, I received the example of a man very committed to helping the poorest.
Around the age of 15, I felt called to religious life. Read more…
A la recherche du bonheur
Born into a non-practicing family, I was baptized and went to catechism until confirmation, but as a teenager I gave up everything to… play soccer! It was at the age of 19 that I really experienced the living Jesus, in Lourdes in 1986 (one hundred years after Thérèse, who received her grace of conversion at Christmas 1886!). Read more…
Loving God Madly Following Teresa of Avila
I was innocently offered the Self-Written Life of Teresa of Avila. Read more…
Seized by the gaze of Christ
Around the age of seventeen I perceived a call for religious life. Carmel, I knew a few snippets of it through Thérèse, but it didn't go far. My parents were not against a vocation but in apostolic life. I got in touch with a sister and one thing leading to another I joined her apostolic congregation. Then, after a few years, a time of crisis came. I thought a lot about the future but before taking any decision I prayed a lot. For me it was important. As I was in the chapel in prayer, I heard myself say "Carmel". And me to answer... Read more…
Through love, Thérèse… and the internet!
I discovered the Martin family thanks to a comic strip that a young person from catechism had brought with her. And, after that, Thérèse (how did she come into my life? I don't know, but…) I felt her accompanying me, protecting me, watching me from Heaven… Read more
Living in the presence of the Lord makes me happy
When I was in high school, one evening during my prayer I felt the desire to be totally given to prayer. I was not thinking of religious life, I had other projects, but rereading my journey I see today that it was at this time that the Lord called me, called to a life of prayer. Read more…
I looked for happiness… and I found it!
I had bought a little book of poems called “Rivers of Living Water”. It was as if Christ was talking to me there and there I was “fished”, the Lord was calling me to come back to him. And from that day on my goal was to return to the Catholic Church. I took two years. Through friends I came into contact with a prayer group and it was from there that my spiritual journey with Jesus took on a new lease of life. It was a new departure in radicalism and religious practice. But it was not without struggles. Read more…
Give everything for everyone to the Lord
It was not until the year when I understood that the Lord was asking me to enter Carmel without delay that I read Elisabeth of the Trinity, and there I said to myself: "That's what I want ". This life of prayer, of silence, for Him alone, the Lord Jesus, and for others. Read more…
To like… êto be loved… to make Love loved!
When I read: “I will be love at the heart of the Church, so I will be everything”, I understood that all my desires would then be realized by this path of union with Christ. This Love that radiates everywhere completely turned me around. I then asked myself very seriously the question of the Carmelite vocation. I spoke about it to a priest, who told me that he felt that I had “a contemplative soul”. Read more…
