"The theme of your chapter assembly, ‘In obsequio Jesu Christi. A praying and prophetic community in a changing world’, aptly recalls recalled the Pope the peculiar style with which the Order of the Carmel tries to respond to God’s love through a live steeped in prayer, fraternity and a prophetic spirit. At the heart of your Rule lies the precept of gathereing every morning for the Eucharistic celebration". And it is "in the Eucharist that ‘the design of love the guides all the history of salvation is revealed’", as written in the Apostolic Constitution "Sacramentum caritatis". "Of this highlighted Benedict XVI the first Carmelites, who pursued a personal sanctification through the diuturnal participation in the Eucharistic feast, were already fully aware". Each member of the Order, exhorted the Pope, "should feel called to be the reliable witness of the spiritual dimension that is typical of every human being", so that "the lay devotees can find in the Carmelite communities some genuine "schools of prayer" where the meeting with Christ can also be expressed "as a thanksgiving" through to a true "infatuation of the heart", as John Paul II wrote in the "Novo millennio ineunte gennaio".
