Summary: St. Louis was a busy town tonight with two big events. Downtown, Busch Stadium was hosting Major League baseball's All Star game. Certainly many televisions were tuned into the action, however, more wonderful than baseball, the Carmelite Nuns continued their hosting the Annual Outdoor Novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel at their Monastery grounds a few miles west of the game. The faithful gathered in chapel to pray the Rosary and then spread out to the front lawns for another beautiful evening of prayer. Tonight we were blessed to have Father Daniel Chowning, OCD from the Discalced Carmelite Hermit Community in Hinton, West Virginia celebrating the mass. We are most thankful that Father will be with us until the Feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel! His homily on Mary of Nazareth was so inspiring as he demonstrated how the Blessed Virgin lived out an ordinary life of faith in Nazareth. Mary, in great example to us, lived this "ordinariness" with "extraordinary holiness" - something we are all called to do! His homily is inspiring and you can listen here. Father was assisted at Mass by Deacon Norman Werner and the choir was from St. Mark's parish. The Most Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries) and Benediction Father Chowning's Homily
