You might not have noticed, but a change has occurred. Communications within the Province have expanded into several branches to better inform Carmelites and their friends both electronically and through printed materials. Carmelite Communications Center has now become Carmelite Media. The Carmelite Review is published through Carmelite Media under my direction as communication director from our main office in Darien, Illinois. Our publishing arm in Tucson, Arizona, is under the direction of Father William Harry, O.Carm., who now serves as the Director of Publications. Father Gregory Houck, O.Carm., serves as the Director of Telecommunications and Brother Charles Kwiatkowski, O.Carm., continues as the Provincial Webmaster. Carmelite Media is also supported by a Communications Commission that serves as a counseling mechanism. As this modern age continues to move from paper to electronic media to MySpace, Twitter and beyond, Carmelite Media is moving forward to keep pace with ‘the beyond.’ Carmelite Review has undergone a transformation as well. It no longer resembles a newsletter with tight columns and small pictures, but has been transformed into a fullblown magazine with large pictures and wider columns. Our staff is proud of its accomplishments and hope you agree with our results. Many hours of labor result in its presentations. While the magazine is bigger and brighter and livelier, the cost has been kept down thanks to a wonderful staff and outsourcing professionals who are committed to the Carmelite family. As Winter begins, so does the Advent Season and the preparation for the Christ child to enter our hearts yet again. While our economy has had many mood swings this year and many have had a tough day-to-day life, we are still thankful for Carmelite presence within our lives. I want to end my column by quoting from Marc Foley, O.C.D., Story of a Soul, the Study Edition, Manuscript A, Chapter three; the distressing years, Background and Content, Page 109. As we grow older and become worldly-wise and sophisticated, we become hardened to the beauty that life sets before us. The harried, hurried, pace of modern living beats out of us the freshness of childhood’s receptivity. One simple way to begin to recover this receptivity is by slowing down and pausing to look at the world around us. One day as William Wordsworth was crossing Westminster Bridge in London, a bridge that he had crossed countless times before; he stopped and looked at the city about him. He captured what he had experienced that morning in his poem “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803.” Earth has not anything to show more fair; Dull would be he of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty. This city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open onto the field, and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully step’ In his first splendor valley, rock, or hill; Ne’er say, I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear God! The very houses seem asleep, And all that mighty heart is lying still! Spend some time this holiday season to take a breath and capture the experience. Merry Christmas!
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