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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 ...
Spirituality Week at the Teresium
Does spirituality need the Church? Ideas, difficulties, and hopes (62nd Spirituality Week, March 14-18, 2021, 16:00 – 18:00) After a year on pause caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, the Spirituality Week at the Teresium is com...
A book on St Joseph in Portuguese
Fr. Patrizio Sciadini, ocd, who was a missionary for many years in Brazil and until recently General Delegate in Egypt, has published a book of great interest in this year dedicated to St Joseph. The title is: ” Caminhando con São Jos...
Golden jubilee of the Teresian Carmel in Burundi
Fifty years have passed since the arrival of the Discalced Carmelite friars in Burundi, a presence that presently depends on the Krakow Province. To celebrate such an important date, in the framework of being a feast of a young Carmel, the ...
A Day for Peace in Baoro
On January 30, 1948, Hindu radicals murdered Mahatma K. Gandhi in New Delhi. In homage to the Mahatma, a day of peace is celebrated all over the world on that date. Our brothers in the Central African Republic have not left this opportunity...
Centenary in Barcelona
The church of the Discalced Carmelites of the Iberian Province on Avenida Diagonal de Barcelona, which is also a Sanctuary of Our Lady of Mt Carmel, is celebrating one hundred years of existence (1921-2021). After the abolition of monasteri...
Blessing and inauguration of our first friars’ monastery in Sri Lanka
We received news from the Superior of the Discalced Carmelite mission in Sri Lanka, Fr. S. Arockiasamy, OCD, in which he informed us of the blessing and opening of the first friars’ monastery in that country. Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith presided at...
Theological Essay gains Award
Brother Abel of Jesus, a Discalced Carmelite student from the Iberian Province, won the third celebration of the Young Theological Essay Award, organized by the prestigious Spanish Catholic publishing house PPC (Christian Popular Promotion). ...
News from Carmel in Malaysia
With great joy, we are sending the news which has reached us of our brothers and sisters in this Asian country. Despite the difficulties imposed due to the pandemic and keeping the security measures indicated by the authorities, the communi...
A year dedicated to St. Joseph
At the time that the Apostolic Letter, Patris Corde, was published on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of St. Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church, Pope Francis announced the start of a year dedicat...
Death of Fr. Reginald Foster
On 25th December, Fr. Reginald Thomas Foster, Discalced Carmelite of the Province of Washington, died in St. Anne’s hospital in Milwaukee. He had been moved there eight days previously after testing positive for coronavirus and in add...
Centenary for the de “LA OBRA MÁXIMA”
Publication of La Obra Máxima began in January 1921 thanks to the missionary zeal of Ven. Fr. Juan Vicente Zengotita (1862-1943) who, after 17 fruitful years of pastoral duties in India, on his return to Spain, with Carmelite, missionary sensitiv...
Cástor Oswaldo Azuaje Pérez, O.C.D., Bishop of the Diocese of Trujillo, Venezuela, died Friday morning 8 January 2021 in Valera (Trujillo)
Bishop Azuaje was born in Maracaibo on 19 October 1951 in a family of six brothers. He first learned about the Discalced Carmelite order in 1966 through the nuns at Mérida, in the Venezuelan Andes. Discerning his vocation to the Teresian C...
Fr General at the Teresianum
As has been customary in recent years, December the 14th, feast of St. John of the Cross, was a special day for the three communities of the Teresianum: Br. Mari Domingo Savio of Korea, Br. John of the conversion of St Paul from Vietnam...
