“Let Nothing Disturb You”: A Virtual Choir of Carmelites

“Let Nothing Disturb You”: A Virtual Choir of Carmelites August 26, 2014

This impressive both technologically and musically. With a few exceptions among apostolic communities β€” and of course, the Third Order laity β€” when you think Carmelite, you think enclosure; you think grilles; you think of interior castles and humble cells.

And yet, thanks to the wonders of digital recording and the internet, we can listen to a virtual choir of Carmelite women, singing β€” and wonderously β€” a new piece of music set to the most famous prayer of the great Carmelite foundress and reformer, Saint Teresa of Avila:

The prayer β€” which is more of a sort of contemplative pulse β€” is this:

Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.

We certainly need to remember that.


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