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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Bede
Your head is like Carmel, etc. In the head of the bride, the soul of the faithful is rightly understood, because just as the members are ruled by the head, so are thoughts arranged by the mind. Hence, even the thoughts themselves, which emerge countless times every hour and moment from the human mind, are aptly depicted as hair. …
Robert of Tombelaine
The head of the Church is Christ, who is fittingly called Carmel, because through the passion He endured, He was exalted to the glory of the Father. Of Him it is written: "And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of the mountains" (Isa. 2:2). On Carmel, Elijah praying obtained rain (1 Kings 18), and we praying on Carmel obtain rain, when believing in Christ we desire Christ and receive from the Father the watering of grace for which we ask. …
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