The Carmel of Mary Immaculate and St Mary Magdalen in Flemington, New Jersey, invited me to preside over their Triduum of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in 2023. This Triduum is a series of three preached Holy Hours (July 13, 14, and 15 that year) in preparation of the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on July 16 (a Sunday that year). Since that year was during the national Eucharistic Revival, I centered my conferences upon our Lady and the Eucharist. The readings from Scripture came from Masses of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Vol. 2 “31. The Blessed Virgin marry, Fountain of Salvation.” I also celebrated the Mass for the Solemnity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel for the Carmelite nuns. The readings for that Mass were 1 Kings 18:42b–45a, Psalm 14:1, 2-3, 4, Galatians 4:4–7, and John 19:25–27.
You can read my conferences and homily here. I compiled them together into a single pdf for easy of reading. They are my notes to preach from, with some editorial corrections. As naturally occurs though, those who were present received a conference which does not match the notes one hundred percent.
The conferences and Mass were recorded. You can watch the three conferences and the closing Mass at the links below:
- Conference 1: July 13, 2023
- Conference 2: July 14, 2024
- Conference 3: July 15, 2024
- Mass: July 16, 2023