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Benoite Rencurel of Le Laus
Authors: Gillett H. M. 
Published: August 2024

September 29th of this year marks the third centenary of the birth of a notable mystic, Benoite Eencurel, a Dominican tertiary whose memory is still fresh in the French Alpine valleys where she lived until 1718. Her immense influence in counteracting the local, withering effects of Waldensianism and Jansenism may still be felt by those who visit the sanctuaries which she there founded and which give title to the devotion to Notre-Dame de Laus.About seven miles from Gap, in the Departement of Hautes Alpes, and across the range of low mountains which lie between the little cathedral city and the Durance Valley, is the charming and picturesque little valley of the Laus, wherein nestles a group of hamlets of which St-Etienne d'Avançon and St-Etienne du Laus are chief.
Blessed Nicolaus von der Flue
Authors: Campbell D. M. 
Published: August 2024

Blessed Nicolaus was a hermit, respected and beloved not only by his contemporaries, but to this day in his native land of Switzerland, in his great shrine in Sachsen, and in several chapels as well as his own memorial chapel at Ranft.The Swiss believe that it was owing to his prayers and protection that their country was immune in the 1914-18 war and in this one; and the gratitude of the nation has shown itself in a large fresco painted in his memorial church at Ranft, showing Switzerland as a sort of island, upheld by Blessed Nicolaus, amidst the general welter of slaughter and suffering of the rest of Europe. He is considered one of the nation’s heroes, indeed, had it not been for his prophetic vision and wisdom Switzerland might never have become a country at all.Nicolaus had many visions, but in the first great vision he suffered pains; for God, in one moment, freed his body from the bands of necessities such as other men are heir to; the piercing light raised him from the ground, and taught him he was to seek all in God.
The Way Of The Cross
Authors: White Victor 
Published: August 2024

It is three o'clock, Good Friday afternoon. Coaches and cars, cyclists and hikers, pour from the cities into the countryside; it is the first day of the holidays. Within the cities it is a nondescript sort of day; the shops, theatres, cinemas are closed, but (such at least are the mores of the British), there are crowds at the football grounds and the ‘dogs'.There are unusually large crowds in the Catholic churches too. one wonders what has brought them. This is no day of ‘obligation’ ; absence from this service will bring no reproach and incur no guilt. Yet, besides the regular congregation, there are rows of unfamiliar faces; faces one seldom or never sees at Sunday Mass.
Discovering A Saint
Authors: Pepler Conrad 
Published: August 2024

The fact that two great Carmelite saints should both have been called Teresa has inevitably led to a constant comparison between ‘the great’ and ‘the little’ saint, according to the various points of view of the critics. Miss Sackville-West compared them, in her study published eight years ago, as eagle and dove, with a strong bias in favour of the ‘eagle'. We naturally feel uneasy about such a valuation since they are both canonised saints and are therefore both great in the eyes of the Church. But perhaps there is some justification for such a comparison of value even for the Catholic who fully acknowledges the heroic greatness of both in the order of supernatural virtue.The appearance at this time of several studies of the one and of the other St Teresa, together with the translated Letters of ‘Avila’ herself, gives us the occasion to weigh Miss Sackville-West's title once again.
Contemplative Life in the World?
Authors: Steuart Benedict 
Published: August 2024

In the May issue of Life Of The Spirit, ‘A Challenge from inside the Cloister’ by a Carmelite nun denied with considerable force that there could be any real contemplative life in the world—mainly ‘because the essential “stripping” could never be accomplished outside Enclosure or the Rule nor could it be born', (p. 556.) It is true that the writer says that it is ‘A Carmelite life in the world’ that does not seem possible, but she goes on to say: ‘May I suggest that it is a great pity so much is made of “contemplative fife” in the world now'; so that evidently it is not only the Carmelite form of that life which is considered impossible outside the cloister.This ‘challenge’ has given rise to a series of replies—some of which have appeared in the following numbers of Life Of The Spirit—all of which have protested quite decidedly against the theory expressed in the ‘challenge'.
Throne of Wisdom
Authors: Todd John 
Published: August 2024

As the first, original sin was committed through the sinful mediation of a woman, so it was through a woman's consent and just mediation that we were redeemed from the guilt of this sin. Conceived without the stain of original sin, our Lady was the second Eve. She was the perfect tabernacle of God, simply the mother of Jesus, because she was utterly selfless, because in an old metaphor of the Fathers revived in a recent book, she was like a pipe which waits for the air to blow through it to make music, the Reed of God.Our Lady was the throne of Wisdom because she can be perfectly described as the Woman who was poor. Here at last was the complete gift of self, the unconditional sacrifice of the creature which God looked for in Adam and Eve, and looked for in vain. So our Lady became infinitely rich, Sedes Sapientiae, and entered upon the earthly motherhood with that perfection which she carried on to her eternal motherhood wherein she dispenses to man the same Wisdom whom she mothered in Palestine.
Parochial Spirituality II—Some Applications
Authors: Evans Illtud 
Published: August 2024

If it be true that the rhythm of parish life should be accepted as the Church's normal means of bringing her members to their vocation of holiness, the danger of a false mystique must yet be faced and avoided. It is easy enough to envisage an idyllic order in which social circumstances and personal integrity alike encourage the growth of the Mystical Body as manifest in a local congregation of the faithful. But the facts are often painfully otherwise, and an appeal to a high achievement may trickle away into the lowest common denominator of what is customary.The immediate difficulty springs from the fragmentation of parochial life, reflecting as it does the broken unity of social life everywhere. The crowded congregations at Mass may deceive; they must certainly be related to the crowds who have fallen away. And even the faithful, so often pitifully unaware of the deep resources of the faith they cling to, have largely ceased to be conscious of the God-given bond that brings them together. There can be no substitute for what is essential in any organism, and the Church is animated by the Holy Ghost himself.
Using Disorder Metrics to Distinguish Discharge‐Driven From Drainage Area‐Driven Incision and Quantify Deviations in Channel Steepness
Authors: Ruiz Sánchez‐Oro Marina , Mudd Simon M. , Gailleton Boris 
Published: August 2024

AbstractThe rate of channel incision in bedrock rivers is often described using a power law relationship that scales erosion with drainage area. However, erosion in landscapes that experience strong rainfall gradients may be better described by discharge instead of drainage area. In this study, we test if these two end member scenarios result in identifiable topographic signatures in both idealized numerical simulations and in natural landscapes. We find that in simulations using homogeneous lithology, we can differentiate a posteriori between drainage area and discharge‐driven incision scenarios by quantifying the relative disorder of channel profiles, as measured by how well tributary profiles mimic both the main stem channel and each other. The more heterogeneous the landscape becomes, the harder it proves to identify the disorder signatures of the end member incision rules. We then apply these indicators to natural landscapes, and find, among eight test areas, no clear topographic signal that allows us to conclude a discharge or area‐driven incision rule is more appropriate. We then quantify the distortion in the channel steepness index induced by changing the incision rule. Distortion in the channel steepness index can also be driven by changes to the assumed reference concavity index, and we find that distortions in the normalized channel steepness index, frequently used as a proxy for erosion rates, is more sensitive to changes in the concavity index than to changes in the assumed incision rule. This makes it a priority to optimize the concavity index even under an unknown incision mechanism.
Vertical Deformation Along a Strike‐Slip Plate Boundary: The Uplifted Marine Terraces of the Gulf of Aqaba and Tiran Island, at the Southern End of the Dead Sea Fault
Authors: Ribot Matthieu , Lefèvre Marthe , Klinger Yann , Pons‐Branchu Edwige , Dapoigny Arnaud , Jónsson Sigurjón 
Published: August 2024

AbstractClose to its southern end where it connects to the Red Sea rift, the Dead Sea strike‐slip fault (DSF) becomes trans‐tensional in the Gulf of Aqaba. Details of this transition, however, remain difficult to unravel as most of the active tectonic structures are located off‐shore. This study focuses on uplifted marine terraces located in the Gulf of Aqaba and on Tiran Island. Using high‐resolution tri‐stereo Pleiades satellite imagery, we build a Digital Surface Model (DSM) at a 0.5‐m resolution of the eastern coast of the gulf and Tiran Island to map 19 levels of marine terraces. The terraces are preserved at elevations from 1 m to almost 500 m above the current sea level. Correlating laterally U‐Th ages obtained along the gulf with the lower levels found on Tiran Island, we build an age model to estimate the ages of the upper terraces on the island. Combining this with the terrace heights from our DSM, we derive the uplift rate affecting the terraces. The geographic extent of the terraces along the gulf suggests that the DSF is responsible for uplift along the entire eastern coastline of the gulf at a rate of about 0.14 ± 0.03 mm/year at least over the Quaternary. The uplift rate of Tiran Island, located closer to the Red Sea rift, is faster at 0.21 ± 0.02 mm/year over the past 2.4 Myr. This faster uplift rate suggests a combined tectonic uplift related to both the Dead Sea strike‐slip fault system and the Red Sea rift.
Evolution of Drought Mitigation and Water Security Through 100 Years of Reservoir Expansion in Semi‐Arid Brazil
Authors: Meira Neto Antônio Alves , Medeiros Pedro , de Araújo José Carlos , Pereira Bruno , Sivapalan Murugesu 
Published: August 2024

AbstractBrazil's Northeast region (BRN), especially the state of Ceará (CE), has dealt historically with severe drought events since the late 1800s, which commonly led to catastrophic impacts of mass migration and deaths of thousands of people. Throughout the last century, the “Droughts Polygon” region experienced an intense infrastructural development, with the expansion of a dense network of reservoirs. This paper presents a parsimonious hydrologic modeling approach to investigate the 100‐year (1920–2020) evolution of the hydrology of the 24,500 km2 Upper Jaguaribe Basin, throughout the development of a dense reservoir network. We aimed at reproducing the hydrology at the basin scale and analyzed the outcomes of reservoir expansion in terms of water fluxes and water security. Our model's structure captured the growth in reservoir count and storage capacity, which was then confronted with an evolving water demand, allowing us to estimate how water security (i.e., proportion of demand being met) varied over the 100‐year period. Significant streamflow reduction at the basin's outlet and increase in evaporation losses, associated with a decrease in streamflow at varying exceedance frequencies were observed at the end of the study period. While reservoir expansion allowed for the transition from complete vulnerability to meteorological droughts to increased levels of water security, drought impacts had, in the meantime, disproportionally intensified, especially in reservoirs of medium to small capacities. Smaller reservoirs are suggested to have played the role of distributing water resources throughout the region, while larger reservoirs were more efficient as tools to promote water security.
Forecasting Next Year's Global Land Water Storage Using GRACE Data
Authors: Li Fupeng , Kusche Jürgen , Sneeuw Nico , Siebert Stefan , Gerdener Helena , Wang Zhengtao , Chao Nengfang , Chen Gang , Tian Kunjun 
Published: August 2024

AbstractExisting approaches for predicting total water storage (TWS) rely on land surface or hydrological models using meteorological forcing data. Yet, such models are more adept at predicting specific water compartments, such as soil moisture, rather than others, which consequently impedes accurately forecasting of TWS. Here we show that machine learning can be used to uncover relations between nonseasonal terms of Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) derived total water storage and the preceding hydrometeorological drivers, and these relations can subsequently be used to predict water storage up to 12 months ahead, and even exceptional droughts on the basis of near real‐time observational forcing data. Validation by actual GRACE observations suggests that the method developed here has the capability to forecast trends in global land water storage for the following year. If applied in early warning systems, these predictions would better inform decision‐makers to improve current drought and water resource management.
Synergistic Forcing of the Troposphere and Stratosphere on Explosively Developing Cyclones Over the North Pacific During Cold Season
Authors: Qian Shengyi , Hu Haibo , Hodges Kevin I. , Yang Xiu‐Qun , Song Tangxuan 
Published: August 2024

AbstractThe mid‐latitude extreme weather disasters are often associated with explosively developing cyclones (ECs). Based on different vertical development characteristics, 4,608 ECs identified over the North Pacific in the cold season of 44 years of NCEP‐CFSR reanalyzes are divided into four types of upward development and four types of downward development categories. ECs with vertical upward (downward) development follow a northeastward (nearly eastward) path, mainly explosively developing over the Northwest Pacific (Asia continent and Pacific). Furthermore, utilizing the piecewise potential vorticity inversion method reveals the synergetic forcing of the turbulent heat transport and baroclinicity in the lower troposphere, the latent heat release in the middle levels, the upper‐level jet stream, and the downward intrusion of stratospheric potential vorticity on the ECs. Different configurations of these influences from the troposphere to the stratosphere result in the occurrences of eight types of ECs in the cold season over the North Pacific.
Interannual Variability of the Heat Budget in the Tropical Pacific Ocean and Its Link to the Overturning Circulation
Authors: Saenko Oleg A. , Tandon Neil F. 
Published: August 2024

AbstractUsing a suite of coupled climate models and an extensive set of ocean heat budget diagnostics, we address the relative roles of heat convergence and surface heat flux in driving the annual rate of ocean heat content (OHC) change in the tropical Pacific and its interannual variability. The net heat convergence is further separated into convergences associated with the large‐scale ocean circulation, (parameterized) mesoscale effects and small‐scale mixing. It is found that the heat convergence due to the large‐scale ocean circulation provides the dominant contribution to the annual OHC tendency. Interannual variations of heat convergence are larger in the tropical Pacific than in the tropical Atlantic. These heat convergence variations are linked to interannual variations of the Pacific meridional overturning circulation (PMOC), driven by the associated variations in the northward Ekman transport (EkT). Northward variations of the tropical PMOC and EkT are typically associated with heat divergence and negative annual OHC tendency in the central and eastern near‐equatorial Pacific along with heat convergence and positive annual OHC tendency in the western and northwestern tropical Pacific. In the Niño3.4 region, interannual variations of the near‐surface OHC tendency negatively (positively) correlate with interannual PMOC variations at zero lag (1 year lag, when PMOC leads OHC).
Radiocarbon Isotopic Disequilibrium Shows Little Incorporation of New Carbon in Mineral Soils of a Boreal Forest Ecosystem
Authors: Tangarife‐Escobar Andrés , Guggenberger Georg , Feng Xiaojuan , Muñoz Estefanía , Chanca Ingrid , Peichl Matthias , Smith Paul , Sierra Carlos A. 
Published: August 2024

AbstractBoreal forests fix substantial amounts of atmospheric carbon (C). However, the timescales at which this C is cycled through the ecosystem are not yet well understood. To elucidate the temporal dynamics between photosynthesis, allocation and respiration, we assessed the radiocarbon () disequilibrium (D) between different C pools and the current atmosphere to understand the fate of C in a boreal forest ecosystem. Samples of vegetation, fungi, soil and atmospheric were collected at the Integrated Carbon Observation System station Svartberget in northern Sweden. Additionally, we analyzed the C‐ from incubated topsoil and forest floor soil respiration (FFSR) collected over a 24‐hr cycle, and calculated the C signature of the total ecosystem respiration (Re) using the Miller‐Tans method. We found that vegetation pools presented a positive D enriched with bomb , suggesting a fast‐cycling rate (months to years) for living biomass and intermediate (years to decades) for dead biomass. In contrast, mineral soils showed a negative D, indicating minimal incorporation of bomb . FFSR showed diurnal C variability (mean = 8.5‰), suggesting predominance of autotrophic respiration of recently fixed labile C. Calculations for C in Re (median = 12.7‰) demonstrate the predominance of C fixed from days to decades. Although the boreal forest stores significant amounts of C, most of it is in the soil organic layer and the vegetation, where it is cycled relatively fast. Only minimal amounts of recent C are incorporated into the mineral soil over long timescales despite the current stocks in soils being relatively old.
TGF-β signaling promotes eosinophil activation in inflammatory responses
Authors: Zhu Chen , Weng Qingyu , Gao Shenwei , Li Fei , Li Zhouyang , Wu Yinfang , Wu Yanping , Li Miao , Zhao Yun , Han Yinling , Lu Weina , Qin Zhongnan , Yu Fangyi , Lou Jiafei , Ying Songmin , Shen Huahao , Chen Zhihua , Li Wen 
Published: August 2024

AbstractEosinophils, traditionally associated with allergic phenomena, play a pivotal role in inflammatory responses. Despite accumulating evidence suggesting their pro-inflammatory function upon activation, the underlying mechanisms governing eosinophil activation remain incompletely characterized. In this study, we investigate the local activation of pulmonary and colon eosinophils within the inflammatory microenvironment. Leveraging transcriptional sequencing, we identify TGF-β as a putative regulator of eosinophil activation, leading to the secretion of granule proteins, including peroxidase. Genetic deletion of TGF-β receptors on eosinophils resulted in the inhibition of peroxidase synthesis, affirming the significance of TGF-β signaling in eosinophil activation. Using models of HDM-induced asthma and DSS-induced colitis, we demonstrate the indispensability of TGF-β-driven eosinophil activation in both disease contexts. Notably, while TGF-β signaling did not significantly influence asthmatic inflammation, its knockout conferred protection against experimental colitis. This study delineates a distinct pattern of eosinophil activation within inflammatory responses, highlighting the pivotal role of TGF-β signaling in regulating eosinophil behavior. These findings deepen our comprehension of eosinophil-related pathophysiology and may pave the way for targeted therapeutic approaches in allergic and inflammatory diseases.
DNA methylation governs the sensitivity of repeats to restriction by the HUSH-MORC2 corepressor
Authors: Pandiloski Ninoslav , Horváth Vivien , Karlsson Ofelia , Koutounidou Symela , Dorazehi Fereshteh , Christoforidou Georgia , Matas-Fuentes Jon , Gerdes Patricia , Garza Raquel , Jönsson Marie E. , Adami Anita , Atacho Diahann A. M. , Johansson Jenny G. , Englund Elisabet , Kokaia Zaal , Jakobsson Johan , Douse Christopher H. 
Published: August 2024

AbstractThe human silencing hub (HUSH) complex binds to transcripts of LINE-1 retrotransposons (L1s) and other genomic repeats, recruiting MORC2 and other effectors to remodel chromatin. How HUSH and MORC2 operate alongside DNA methylation, a central epigenetic regulator of repeat transcription, remains largely unknown. Here we interrogate this relationship in human neural progenitor cells (hNPCs), a somatic model of brain development that tolerates removal of DNA methyltransferase DNMT1. Upon loss of MORC2 or HUSH subunit TASOR in hNPCs, L1s remain silenced by robust promoter methylation. However, genome demethylation and activation of evolutionarily-young L1s attracts MORC2 binding, and simultaneous depletion of DNMT1 and MORC2 causes massive accumulation of L1 transcripts. We identify the same mechanistic hierarchy at pericentromeric α-satellites and clustered protocadherin genes, repetitive elements important for chromosome structure and neurodevelopment respectively. Our data delineate the epigenetic control of repeats in somatic cells, with implications for understanding the vital functions of HUSH-MORC2 in hypomethylated contexts throughout human development.
Interdomain-linkers control conformational transitions in the SLC23 elevator transporter UraA
Authors: Kuhn Benedikt T. , Zöller Jonathan , Zimmermann Iwan , Gemeinhardt Tim , Özkul Dogukan H. , Langer Julian D. , Seeger Markus A. , Geertsma Eric R. 
Published: August 2024

AbstractUptake of nucleobases and ascorbate is an essential process in all living organisms mediated by SLC23 transport proteins. These transmembrane carriers operate via the elevator alternating-access mechanism, and are composed of two rigid domains whose relative motion drives transport. The lack of large conformational changes within these domains suggests that the interdomain-linkers act as flexible tethers. Here, we show that interdomain-linkers are not mere tethers, but have a key regulatory role in dictating the conformational space of the transporter and defining the rotation axis of the mobile transport domain. By resolving a wide inward-open conformation of the SLC23 elevator transporter UraA and combining biochemical studies using a synthetic nanobody as conformational probe with hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry, we demonstrate that interdomain-linkers control the function of transport proteins by influencing substrate affinity and transport rate. These findings open the possibility to allosterically modulate the activity of elevator proteins by targeting their linkers.