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2nd Carmelitarum Choral Festival 2025 – “In the Heart of the Church, I Shall Be Love”
The 2nd Carmelitarum Choral Festival 2025 was held from October 3 to 5, 2025, at the Discalced Carmelite Monastery of Saint Mary of Bethlehem, Lembang – West Java, Indonesia, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the can...
Togo: Establishment of an OCD community in Lomé
After spending two years living in a rented house close to the St Teresa of Avila parish in the Kognito district, we recently relocated to the small convent that was constructed on three hectares of land owned by the Order in the Apessito district...
Jubilee Song: One Voice, One Community
The Seminarium Missionum, the OCD specialisation community in Rome, has been designated by the General Definitory for the ongoing formation of Carmelite religious from all over the world, at licentiate and doctorate level. As part ...
Collegio internazionale San Giovanni della Croce
The historic and holy convent of Eremo di MonteVirginio, built in 1668, has been blessed to house our seven friars from five nationalities – Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Madagascar – from the OCD International College a...
India: Bible Symposium in Goa
The Karnataka-Goa Province, in collaboration with the Diocesan Centre for Biblical Apostolate of the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman, organised a Bible Symposium at the Divine Springs Retreat Centre, Xellim-Loliem, from August 27 to 29. The sy...
USA: Carmelite Young Adult Day 2025
On Saturday, August 9, 2025, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little Flower and the Discalced Carmelite family in San Antonio, Texas (USA) welcomed young adults from around Texas to Carmelite Young Adult Day. This annual event i...
El Salvador: International Symposium ‘Trust Leads to Love’
From 18 to 22 August 2025, the Nuestra Señora del Carmen Retreat Centre in Vía del Mar, El Salvador, hosted the International Symposium ‘Trust Leads to Love’. Over 100 people from Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Sal...
CICLA South Meeting
From 30 June to 3 July 2025, our Santa Teresa Retreat Centre in La Plata (Argentina) hosted a meeting of the Major Superiors and their Councils from the Circumscriptions of the CICLA South (Province of Brazil South, General Delegation of Argentina...
Colombia: A Spiritual Memorial
The Provincial Animation Commission organised a spiritual concert entitled “Carmelite Music” in the church of Santa Teresita in Bogotá on 2 August 2025. The concert offered a space f...
Ukraine: Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel at the Shrine in Berdychiv
Thousands of pilgrims came with devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary at the national Shrine in Berdychiv from the 16th to the 20th of July 2025. The theme of this year’s celebrations in honour of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was ‘Mother of God,...
First final profession in the OCDS in Senegal
During the great pilgrimage of the Carmelite family of Senegal to the monastery of the Discalced Carmelites in Sebikotane, near Dakar, on the solemnity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mr And...
Novitiates
Second Novitiate of English-speaking Africa The second novitiate for English-speaking Africa in 2025 is taking place at the...
Jubilee: Meeting of Carmelite Youth
As part of the Youth Jubilee on 31 July, a Carmelite Vigil was held at the Teresianum in Rome. More than 400 young people from different countries attended, along with members of the Orde...
LITURGY OF THE ORDER
On 16 July 2025, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments approved the Editio Typica Alterae of the Proprium Missarum OCD (the ‘second edition’ of the ‘Carmelite Missal’ in Latin). Exceptionally, th...
Singapore : Meeting with the OCDS
From the 16th to the 18th of May, the members of the OCDS in Singapore came together to explore three key themes in the life of the Secular Order: the role and identity of the OCDS, formation in Carmelite spirituality, and living as Secular Order ...
