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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...
Father Silverio of Saint Teresa, Discalced Carmelite March 8, 1878
(Escóbados de Arriba, Burgos, Spain) – March 10, 1954 (Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico) Father Silverio, of the Gómez-Fernández family, was born in the village of Escóbados de Arriba on the high plain of Sedano, south of t...
Fr. Silverio of St. Teresa
On 8th March, it was 140 years since the birth in Escóbados de Arriba (Burgos, Spain) of Fr. Silverio of St. Teresa, known in the world as Julián Gómez Fernández. ...
Fr. Saverio at the Teresianum community’s Feast day
While Fr. Antoine-Marie Zacharie Igirukwayo was Superior of the Teresianum, the Teresianum community decided a few years ago to celebrate its feast day on 12th March, anniversary of the canonisation of St. Teresa of Jesus. This y...
Review of constitutions. Italian OCD meeting
A meeting of OCD Friars of the Italian Circumscriptions took place from 19 to 21 February in the “Santa Maria Annunziata” Spirituality Centre in Maddaloni of the Neapolitan Province. It was organized by the OCD Major Superiors of the Italian...
News from the Timor mission
Recently, on the 31st of January, there arrived in East Timor the last of the missionaries who, for the moment, will be incorporated into this Young Teresian Carmel presence. It is Fr Nuno, a Discalced Carmelite, born in this country, w...
A belated Christmas – and dreams as big as trees
Newsletter from the Carmel in Bangui, 20 –22 January 2018 Where does it say that we always have to celebrate Christmas on 25 December? On the calendar naturally, as my more observant readers will tell me. You are righ...
IPCI General Assembly in India
On 2nd February, Fr. General and the definitor in charge of India met with the IPCI General Assembly consisting of 7 Provincials and one of their councillors, 3 Regional vicars and two provincial delegates. The primary objective was to ...
