2014-07-07 13:03:00

Carmelites and the 'duplex spiritus'


(Vatican Radio) Veronica Scarisbrick once convinced our popular 'Latin Lover', Father Reginald Foster who spent almost all of his life as papal Latinist, to explain all things Carmelite. Among other things Father Foster speaks to us of the spiritual Father of the founder of his Order, St Elijah, explaining the concept of "duplex spiritus", the life of hermitic prayer combined with the life of active evangelisation.

Listen to this programme presented and produced by Veronica Scarisbrick for the series 'The Latin Lover':

And as Veronica  Scarisbrick discovered in the course of this conversation it seems Cicero would have understood Elijah and the Carmelite ‘permutatio’ spirit.








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