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Pope Francis appoints two members of the Carmelite family as consultors to the CIVCSVA.
We learned on March 12 that Pope Francis has named Mother Elsa Campa, prioress of the Carmelites of Alba and Villagarcía de Campos (Spain), and president of the Federation of the Discalced Carmelites, as consultor to the Congregation for Inst...
Father Teófanes Egido, OCD, received the Castilla y León Prize in Social and Human Sciences for its 2020 edition.
Father Teófanes was born in Gajates (Spain) in 1936. He dedicated his whole life to History. He was a professor of modern history at the University of Valladolid until 2001 and was the official chronicler of the city of Valladolid (Spain) for 17 ...
CARMELITE FRIARS IN IRAQ
In 2005 there were 4000 members in the Catholic Church of the Latin Rite, or 0.6% of Christians in Iraq. Carmel has had a presence in the country since 1623 in Bassora. Another monastery of the Friars was founded in Baghdad in 1721. Thei...
IRAQ (From Mons. Jean Sleiman OCD)
Pope Francis’ visit to Iraq, so ardently longed for by the Holy Father but so frequently postponed, finally took place from March 5-8, 2021. It has been seen unanimously as an historic event. It has certainly been the first visit of a Pope t...
BOUAR, Central African Republic Refugees at the Carmelite Monastery of St. Elias in Bouar
On January 13, 2021, yet another failed coup plunged the population of the Central African Republic into panic. 2,385 persons, the majority of them women and children, fled from the rebel military and sought sanctuary in our Monastery of St. Eli...
The Carmelite Church in Cracow is designated as a Diocesan Shrine dedicated to St. Joseph
On March 19, 2021, the Feast of St. Joseph, the Metropolitan Archbishop, Mons. Mzarek Jedraszewski, presided at Mass in our Church in Cracow. During the celebration, he read the Decree by which he designated the Carmelite Church as a Diocesan Sh...
THE MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF THE OCD MAJOR SUPERIORS OF THE FRANCOPHONE ZONE
The meeting of the assembly of the Conference of the Major Superiors of the african francophone zone took place in Abidjan from 24 to 29 January 2021. The following were present: Fr Daniel Ehigie (Definitor), Fr Jerome Paluku (Secretary for the Mi...
New Secretary for information
After almost six years, Fr Emilio José Martínez has left the secretariat for information and internet at the General Curia. He will be replaced by Fr José Pereira, ocd, from the Province of Avignon-Aquitaine. We are thankful to Fr Emilio...
New Postulator General: Fr. Marco Chiesa
Fr. Marco Chiesa, from the Province of Genoa, has been designated as new Postulator General. He replaces Fr. Romano Gambalunga, whom we warmly thank for his years of dedication to the General Curia. Fr. Marco was born in 1976 in Crema (Ital...
News from Carmel in India
Recently, on February 21st , the first Sunday of Lent, the blessing and reopening of the monastery of Discalced Carmelite nuns in Vijayawada took place, after completion of the restructuring work, undertaken with help from the OCD Gener...
Online Program of Spiritual Formation
The Teresian School of Spiritual Promotion (ESTEPRE) is a formation program of the Discalced Carmelite friars of the Province of Central America. The School has been operating for more than 20 years and is specifically designed for formation in th...
Centre of Hope: a leap of faith. Discalced Carmelite friars in Nigerian prisons….
The Discalced Carmelite Missionaries from the Anglo-Irish Province who brought the Carmelite Ordre to Nigeria, as soon as they arrived in the Country embarked on a prison apostolate in the Diocese of Enugu whose Bishop had invaded them. One may as...
Saint Teresa of Jesus Congress
As we informed you some time ago, the Saint Teresa of Jesus Catholic University of Avila, together with the Diocese of Avila, the Discalced Carmelites and the Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Catholic University (Germany), have organized the International Co...
Minor Basilica in Varapuzha, India
On December 11, 2020, the church of our parish in Varapuzha, belonging to the Province of St. Pius X of Manjummel, was declared a Minor Basilica by the Holy See. The news was communicated to our Provincial, Fr. Thomas Marottikaparambil, OCD, on Ja...
Fr Francisco Javier Jaramillo has died
On February 24, Fr. Francisco Javier Jaramillo died in our monastery in Manrique (Medellin, Colombia). He was a member of our Colombian Province of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus. Born on the 5th of December 1939, on the same date of ...