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New Proper Calendar
Rome, 24 September 2019 Dear Fathers, Today, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has handed over to the Order the approval of the new Proper Calendar, which was signed on the Solemnity of Our La...
Activities of Fr. General & the Definitors
On 24th September, Fr. General, who was invited to participate in the General Chapter of the Carmelites of the Ancient Observance (O Carm), arrived in Sassone, near Rome. He presided at the 8 O’clock Mass, after which he gave a confer...
The IVth Congress of the Teresian Carmel in Africa & Madagascar
Between 14th and 18th October 2019 the IVth International Congress of the Discalced Carmel for Africa and Madagascar will be celebrated in Yaounde, Cameroon. The central theme will be fraternal life, a space in whi...
New Webmaster: Lorenzo Barone
Lorenzo Barone is a member of the OCDS in the Central Italian Province (OCD). He was born in Rome, 5 July 1992. From 2001 to 2003 he was a member of the Pueri Cantores of the P...
General Definitory
On the 2ndof September, the Ordinary meeting of the General Definitory began, chaired by Fr Saverio Cannistrà and in the presence of all the Definitors. This meeting takes place after the summer break in the northern hemisphere, which ...
News from the Order’s Information Secretariat
Coinciding with the start of the ordinary session of the General Definitory on the 2ndof September, the team in charge of the Communication of the Order, under the direction of Fr Agustí Borrell, Vicar General and directly responsible ...
Documents of the 2009-2015 sexennium in French
Marchons ensemble ! La parole d’un chef de famille. [Let’s go together! The word of a head of a household]. Saverio Cannistrà, o.c.d. Documents of the 2009-2015 sexennium, collected and presented by the Carmel of Devel...
Information from the Order
The Order’s Secretariat of Information, following instructions from our Major Superiors, is preparing some changes that will gradually be released and will be launched throughout the 2019-2020 academic year. That is why, taking advantage ...
Meeting of the General Councils
The General Council of the Carmelites and the Definitory of the Discalced Carmelites, at which presided their respective Fathers General, Fernando Millán, OCarm, and Saverio Cannistrà, OCD, met recently at the Provincial House of the OCarm friar...
A new biography in Spanish on Saint Teresa of Jesus
Fr. Daniel de Pablo Maroto presents to readers a new biography of Saint Teresa, from the FONTE GROUP publishing house of spirituality (Iberian Province, Spain). It is a second, edited and augmented edition of what the author already published in 2...
Great elephants, little pygmies, precious diamonds and the love of the missionaries. Newsletter from the Carmel in Bangui
Sometime during the Creation – shall we say around the fifth or sixth day? – God was passing the intersection of the 2nd Parallel North and the 16th Meridian East. I know of course that at that time the global reference points had not yet been...
May Fr. Edwin Diniz ocd, rest in peace
On April 25, 2019, during the octave of Easter, Father Edwin Aleluia Aleixo Diniz, OCD died in Bambolim (Goa, India). He was a doctor in dogmatic theology and licentiate in Sacred Scripture and professor emeritus of the Teresianum. Born in Mercies...
Echoes from the ‘Vítor Teresa’ exhibition [Cheers to Teresa]
The Vítor Teresa exhibition, which could be seen last year in Alba de Tormes (Salamanca) and which brought together very significant works on the life of the religious Saint Teresa, will be able to be “kept track of” forever ...
Carmelite Cardinal Mons. Arborelius in Adro
Monsignor Anders Arborelius, the first Swedish cardinal in history and first Carmelite Cardinal of the third millennium, visited the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Snow in Adro on Sunday, April 7th, on the occasion of the celebrations of ...
Fr. General in the Middle East
At the end of last March, Fr. General, Saverio Cannistrà, began a pastoral visit to the brothers and sisters of Lebanon. Until the 14th of April, he visited all the convents and monasteries present in the semiprovince, to dialogue with...
