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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...
Online Activities
Our brothers and sisters around the world (nuns, friars, and Secular Order members) are contributing in many ways to bring comfort and hope to people suffering from the pandemic provoked by the coronavirus. Among these contributions, it is ...
Merry Christmas from the Generalate
Dear brothers, the particular circumstances that our Community has been experiencing have prevented us from printing and sending the usual greetings card. However, we have prepared a digital version, with a s...
International Spirituality Summit on St Teresa of Avila in Oxford, UK
On 16th November 2020, around 105 people gathered, via Zoom, to participate in the Spirituality Summit ‘Teresa of Avila: Teacher and Guide’ convened by the Centre for Applied Carmelite Spiritu...
Inauguration of the Chair of Carmelite Studies
Recently, on December the 14th, as we communicated through our social networks, the inaugural conference of the Chair of Carmelite Studies at the Catholic University of America took place. The problems generated by the COVID-19 p...
Return to normality
On December the 3rd, the feast of Saint Francis Xavier, we received exceptionally good news in the General Curia: molecular tests for the detection of coronavirus gave a negative result. Thus, was overcome the COVID-19 contagious situat...
Bernard Sesé dies
Recently, on the 6th of November, there died in Paris Bernard Sesé, the professor of Spanish literature and French poet. A member of the Royal Spanish Academy in France since 1996, he devoted much of his life to the study of Spanish po...
