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OTHER CARMELITE SAINTS AND THEMES
Listen to the Silence: A Retreat with Père
Jacques
Translated and Edited by Francis J. Murphy.
The Carmelite nuns at Pontoise invited Père Jacques to give conferences and to
preach as retreat master. They received from him a seven-day retreat in the late
summer of 1943. This book contains the talks he gave to the nuns: they are
inspiring, but also warm-hearted reflections, on questions of key interest to
his audience. Among the topics were love for Christ, for His Blessed Mother, the
nuns’ Carmelite contemplative prayer life, and their religious observance, but
all received deft treatment from this confrere who eventually became famous for
his compassionate assistance to the persecuted in World War II.
ISBN 0-935216-34-0
ICS Code: LTS
124 pages, paper, $12.95.
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As a diocesan priest Père Jacques Bunel was frequently in demand as a
preacher in his home diocese of Rouen (Normandy).
Along with his duties as educator in a prep school in Le Havre he spoke at
important public occasions. He was chosen to give the sermon that marked the
five hundredth anniversary of the death of St. Joan of Arc in the Cathedral of
Rouen, the city where she was burned at the stake.
Afterwards, when he became a Discalced Carmelite friar (the cover photo shows
him on the day he professed his vows), he continued to exercise a preaching
ministry.
We owe the full texts of those talks (to the Carmelite Nuns of Pontoise),
as well as helpful notes and an introduction, to Rev. Dr. Francis J. Murphy.
Father Murphy, a diocesan priest who has become a good friend of the Carmelites
through his interest in Père Jacques, collaborating with them as he collaborates
with his historian colleagues, teaches at Boston College in Chestnut Hill,
Massachusetts. This collection of talks extends the knowledge Father Murphy has
provided to the public in the biography volume he named and published at ICS
Publications with the title: Père Jacques,
Resplendent in Victory.
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