The Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
is today. There is information on it here. (The link is to a nearly-hundred year-old source, and may be somewhat dated. ) Happy Feast Day to all the Carmelites out there, including certain bloggers. My own thoughts and prayers are particularly with the wonderful nuns at the Carmel of St. Therese of Lisieux in Loretto, Pennsylvania, including my friend Sr. Claire Benedicta of the Cross, O.C.D. (though I still tend to think of her as "Gwen", her name before she entered Carmel.)