The Mother Angeline Society

Greetings from Father Mario

Spring 2026

Dear Members of the Mother Angeline Society,

The chilly winter of 2025 – 2026 will certainly be one which we will long remember. I pray that you are well. As members of the Mother Angeline Society, you are important to us, and your prayerful and financial support of the Cause for the Beatification and Canonization of Venerable Mary Angeline Teresa, O.Carm. is essential in this entire process and is greatly appreciated. You and your intentions are remembered in two Masses each month and in the daily prayers of the Carmelite Sisters. We truly count on you to help us make Mother Angeline better known to others.

                Mother Angeline Teresa loved her vocation as a religious, and from the beginning of her religious life to her death was a model of joyful faithfulness to the Lord and her vows. Praying for vocations to the consecrated life, and the priesthood, is a priority in the Church today, and annually the Church celebrates the World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, February 3rd. Pope Leo XIV, himself a religious, marked the day with a letter, a beautiful Mass and a moving homily. I thought of Mother Angeline Teresa when he spoke these words, “Living in constant tension between earth and heaven, founders and foundresses allowed themselves to be guided with faith and courage.”  “Some founders were led to the silence of the cloister, others to the demands of the apostolate,” but all of them returned “humbly and wisely, to the foot of the cross and to the tabernacle, where they offered everything and discovered in God both the source and the goal of all their actions.”  And he continued, “Consecrated religious are called to bear witness to God’s saving presence in history for all peoples, even within a society in which false and reductive understandings of the human person increasingly widens the gap between faith and life,” the Holy Father affirmed. Finally, “Religious are called to testify that the young, the elderly, the poor, the sick and the imprisoned hold a sacred place above all else on God’s altar and in his heart,” he said, and to show how each of the least is “an inviolable sanctuary of God’s presence, before whom we must bend our knee, in order to encounter him, adore him and give him glory.” As we know Mother Angeline, we can see how she would have nodded “yes” to all these words, and the story of her life, her ministry and her foundation of the Carmelite Sisters saw these sentiments in the flesh, as the ministry to care for the aged and infirm is a sacred and timeless work for the Church and for the Congregation.

                Thank you for your ongoing financial and spiritual support of the mission of the Mother Angeline Society that seeks to make the Venerable better known, and to advance her Cause in the Church. Each of us according to our own state in life within the Church, is called to be a witness to Christ, whose commitment both to the will of the Father and the good of the neighbor was left to us as our baptismal inheritance. We seek the support of Mother Angeline’s prayers, and the encouragement of her example. God bless you and may Our Lady watch over you always.

Avila On Hudson

Very Reverend Mario Esposito, O.Carm.

Vice Postulator