What Carmel Means To Me

Letter from George C. (Bede) Hendrickson

December 2nd, 2009 No comments

The text below is from a letter we recently received at Carmelite Media from George C. (Bede) Hendrickson. He sent a framed picture that his mother painted 60 years ago and asked if it could be used as a vocations tool. The letter explains the meaning of the picture and how it came to be. The text of the letter follows:
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John W. Hauck, Alias Jack

August 31st, 2009 4 comments

The year was 1938 and I was five years old, slowly approaching the anticipated age of reason, when my family moved from St John’s Parish in Fairview, NJ to St Joseph’s Parish in Bogota, NJ. That was my first introduction to the Carmelites.
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Letter from George C. (Bede) Hendrickson

John W. Hauck, Alias Jack