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Blessed John Soreth
Priest
July 24: Celebrated as a Memorial with proper texts or from
the Common of Men Saints (Religious).
 John Soreth was born at Caen in Normandy and entered Carmel
as a young man. He took a doctorate in theology in Paris and served as regent of
studies and provincial of his province. He was Prior General from 1451 until his
death at Angers in 1471. He restored observance within the Order and promoted
its reform, wrote a famous commentary on the Rule, issued new constitutions in
1462, and promoted the growth of the nuns and the Third Order.
Prayer
Lord God
you willed that Blessed John Soreth
should renew religious life
and establish communities for women
in the Order of Carmel.
May his prayers and merits
help us to be ever more faithful
in following Christ and his Mother.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Scripture Readings
Ezekiel 34:12-16, 23a; Gospel - Luke 9:57-62.
Texts taken from the
"Carmelite
Proper of the Liturgy of the Hours,"
Institutum Carmelitanum, Rome: 1993.
Image courtesy of the
Carmelnet webmaster, USA.
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