Sister Merav: A letter to the Kehilla

Like every Carmelite convent, our lives are consecrated to prayer. What is specific to Lisieux is that it is a place of pilgrimage. In the summer months, one can meet here people from all over the world, which gives one the opportunity to live intensively the universal aspect of the Church and to come unto contact with the sufferings and needs of people from all over.

Today, when I thought about what I wanted to share with you, I remembered the words of the Prophet Isaiah: "For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her vindication shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning torch" (Isaiah 62:1).  The fruit of a life of prayer is the fact that there is no longer any limit of space. I am here, in a small town in France, but in prayer I can be everywhere in order to pray the God's righteousness and salvation might come, especially of course to Jerusalem and to His land so that peace and justice might reign there. This is my vocation: to pray and not to be silent for Jerusalem, for her inhabitants and all those suffering from a luck of justice and from persecution.

I would be grateful for your prayers for me so that I might remain always faithful to the call of God and to do His will. Thank you from the depths of my heart.

Merav

Sister Merav of the Divine Mercy will make her solemn profession on March 25, 2010, the Feast of the Annunciation in the course of the mass presided over by Mgr. Pican, Bishop of Bayeux-Lisieux.