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Biblical source for video: DouayRheims Catholic Bible

FEAST OF OF OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL JULY 16th

Elias prays to defeat satan and the evil Jezebel 0:30
Elias sees the foreshadowing of Our Lady's birth by the sight of the cloud in the shape of a hand/human fist/foot/footstep/palm branch. 3:03
Elias founded the Carmelite Brothers community and directs them to pray to God for the Mother of God to come and bring forth the Savior 4:58
Elias leaves his cloak to Eliseus, the prefigurement of the Brown Scapular 6:49
The Brown Scapular is prophesied by St. Dominic 10:20
The Carmelite Brothers are forced out of Mount Carmel and receive the Brown Scapular 12:08
Apparitions of Our Lady of Mount Carmel 18:15
Biblical reference to Our Lady's role in the end times 22:52
Miracles attributed to the Brown Scapular 24:10
The Church approves of the Scapular Medal but does not prefer it 26:40
The Sabbatine (Saturday) Privilege 27:37
Enemies and Doubters of the Brown Scapular 31:31
The sign of Consecration to Mary reach Jesus with more grace, as requested in Fatima 34:32

Please Note: Different Bibles contain different translations of Biblical passages. The image of the cloud is referenced here from the Catholic DouayRheims Bible. Protestant and Modern translations will list it as a hand, palm leaves, etc. The Carmelite Order and Catholic Bibles before the 20th century all listed it as a foot.

The verse from the Third Book of Kings that tells us about the little cloud is this:

“And Elias went up to the top of Mount Carmel, and casting himself down upon the earth put his face between his knees. And he said to his servant: Go up, and look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked and said: There is nothing. And again he said to him: Return seven times. And at the seventh time: Behold a little cloud arose out of the sea like a man’s footstep. And he said: Go up, and say to Achab: Prepare thy chariot, and go down, lest the rain prevent thee.

“And while he turned himself this way and that way, behold the heavens grew dark, with clouds and wind, and there fell a great rain” (III Kings, 18:4345).

This expectation of Elias for the rain the Redemption that would save the earth from the draught and his idea that the little cloud was a symbol of the Virgin Mary were the reasons why Elias’ followers began to come and pray at Mount Carmel for the advent of Our Lady and Our Lord. Those hermits of Mount Carmel were considered the beginning of the Carmelite Order, which is the firstborn of the Religious Orders and also the first dedicated to Our Lady. Because of this particular episode, Elias is considered the first devotee of the Virgin Mary in History.

The following texts taken from the book Éllie le Prophète selon les Écritures et les Traditions Chrétiennes [Elias, the Prophet according to Scriptures and Christian Traditions] from the Carmelite Studies collection (Desclée de Brower, 1956, 2 volumes), confirm this tradition:

• From the top of Carmel Mount, “I could gaze long on that point in the horizon where the servant of Elias saw the small cloud rising from the sea, the symbol of the fecund grace which the Immaculate Virgin would attract to earth.” (Fr. Paul Marie de la Croix, O.C.D., ibid, vol. 1, p. 23).

• “Carmelite writers interpret the small cloud as a figure of the Virgin Mary” (Fr. De Vaux, O.P., ibid, vol. 1, p. 64.

• “God revealed to Elias under the symbol of the small cloud a young woman, the Blessed Virgin Mary” (Fr. Daniel de la Vierge, O.C.D., ibid, vol. 2, p. 31).

• “There is a relation between the Madonna as contemplated by Elias and the same figure seen by St. John ” Signum magnum apparuit in caelo [A great sign appeared in the heavens]. Elias also considered Mary as a signum. Elias saw her as a small cloud rising from the sea; St. John saw her standing, her feet on the crescent moon, which is [like the sea] an image of changeability” (Fr. Bruno Borchert, O.C.D., ibid, vol. 2, p.31).

• “The symbolism of the small cloud whereby the Prophet acknowledged the Virginity of Mary and her fecund Maternity was already spotlighted in the sixth book of the Institutions of the First Monks [Speculum Carmelitanum, 1680, n. 22, p. 56]” (Fr. Elisée de la Nativité, O.C.D., ibid, vol. 2, p. 97).

We hope that these confirmations suffice to assure you of the Carmelite tradition of interpreting the small cloud as a symbol of the Virgin Mary.

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