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IN MEMORIAM (Tomás Álvarez)
On the morning of July, the 27th, Father Tomás Álvarez Fernández (Thomas of the Cross) died after a few days stay in hospital. He was born on the 17th of May1923 in Acebedo, (León), and was a Discalced Carmelite friar sin...
Meeting of the Discalced Carmelite novices of Italy
Between the 11th and the 15th of June past, a meeting of novices and their Masters from the Italian Provinces, took place in the Teresianum. Taking part were Fathers Marco Cabula (Liguria), Leonardo Cuccurullo (Naples), Giann...
The East Timor mission has been temporarily closed
On the 10th of December 2016, the Iberian Conference of Provincials, made up of the Provinces of Portugal, Navarre and Iberia, began a mission in East Timor. Despite all the efforts made, for the moment it has not been possible t...
The Lord brought us to youthfulness
Our OCD Mission Regional Vicariate of West Bengal & North East India has completed 20 years on 6th June 2018. With the permission of our General Superiors, the North East Indian Mission started in Kolkata (where liv...
Seventy years of the foundation of the Holy Desert of Roquebrune (France)
On Pentecost Monday (May 21, 2018), the brothers of the Province of Avignon-Aquitaine celebrated the 70th anniversary of the foundation of their Holy Desert. The project was discussed during the General Chapter of 1947, and Blessed Father Marie-Eu...
“Nova et vetera.” Sanjuanist Gregorian chant
On the 450th anniversary of the reformation of the male branch of the Teresian Carmel (1568-2018), young Discalced Carmelites – postulants and religious of the two Polish provinces of the Order (Krakow and Warsaw) – met in Czerna to prepare a ...
Benziger, Bishop of Quilon (1901-1931) and the titular Archbishop of Antinoe
Adelrich Benziger was born on 31 January 1864 as the fourth child of Mr. Johannes Adelrich Benziger and Anna Maria Koch Von Boswayl at Einsiedeln in Switzerland. As a young boy, he received primary education in Einsiedeln abbey of the Benedictine ...
Situation of Carmel in Venezuela
A few days ago, we received from Fr Daniel Rodríguez, the General Delegate of Venezuela, a letter bearing the significant title “Venezuela, a country to mourn”. In it, Fr Daniel informed us of the emergency situation the country is going thro...
Presentation of the Commission for History
The 28th of April was an historic day for the Discalced Carmelite Order in Portugal, since on this day was officially presented in the monastery of our Fatima friars, the Commission for Historical Studies and Cultural Patrimony of the Teresian Car...
The presence of Carmel in Zambia is growing
On the 12th of May last, the solemn blessing of the monastery of Our Lady of Mount Carmel took place in Mwanjawanthu, Zambia, in the diocese of Chipata, where the Manjummel Province established a mission five years ago. This is the second house of...
German Province OCD: Ongoing formation week
From April 16 to 20, the German Province OCD met at the retreat house Birkenwerder for their annual ongoing formation week. As it has become an appreciated tradition by now, this yearly event is dedicated to fraternal encounters and the presentati...
The reading of our Constitutions
With the sending of Study Guide 12 to those in charge of the Circumscriptions and entities of the Teresian Carmel throughout the world, which took place at the end of April, we are approaching the end of the first phase of the plan for rereading o...
Fr Saverio Cannistrà, Superior General, is visiting the Iberian Province
Fr Saverio Cannistrà is visiting the Discalced Carmelite Iberian Province of St Teresa of Jesus from the 3rd of April to the 15th of May. This visit will be completed later on (towards the end of this year) by Fr Agustí B...
450 years of the foundation of Malagón (the third foundation of St Teresa)
“On Palm Sunday, [the 11th of April] in the year 1568, with the people of the town, we went in procession to the church, in our white mantles and with veils covering our faces. A sermon was preached there, and from that church the Ble...
The Venice Province visits the Croatian Province
Recently, between the 3rd and the 6th of April, 34 friars from the Venice Province, priests and students, paid a visit to the friars of the Croatian Province. The visit arose from the desire to rediscover the existing ties between the two Province...
