The Carmelite spirit: 'duplex spiritum'...

Vatican Radio) Veronica Scarisbrick once convinced our popular 'Latin Lover', Father Reginald Foster who spent almost all of his life as papal Latinist, to explain all things Carmelite. Among other things Father Foster speaks to us of the spiritual Father of the founder of his Order, St Elijah, explaining the concept of "duplex spiritum", the life of hermitic prayer combined with the life of active evangelisation....

Father Foster is currently teaching Latin in the United States and is pictured here while on a recent boat trip with students...

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