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SPAIN: BIRTH OF “TERESIAN MISSION FOUNDATION”
On 16 January 2024, the Fundacion Mision Teresiana was stablished under the auspices of the two OCD Provinces of Spain and the OCD Province of Portugal. The first reunion took place with the attendance of the following:- the Provin...
POPE FRANCIS APPROVES MIRACLE ATTRIBUTED TO ANNE OF JESUS
In a Decree signed on 14 December 2023, Pope Francis approved of a miracle attributed to Sister Anne of Jesus, the spiritual daughter of St. Teresa of Avila and friend of St. John of the Cross. This decision opens the pathway towards the Beatifica...
Egypt: Art Competition about St. Therese of the Child Jesus
Discalced Carmelites arrived in Egypt in 1926, the year after the canonization of St. Therese. Today St. Therese’s Basilica is the venue for unity and communion for the different Rites, both for Coptic and Orthodox Catholics and even for Musli...
Colombia: First Carmelite Congress for Couples
On the weekend 24-26 November, the first Carmelite Congress for Couples was held in Mesa de los Santos (Santander). The theme for the Congress was “My only concern is to love”. It was a time of fraternal/sisterly sharing, meetings, prayer ...
XV CICLA CONGRESS of Latin America and the Caribbean Islands
This XV Latin American Congress of Spirituality, entitled “The importance and influence of St. Therese of the Child Jesus in the Synodal Church” was held from the 20th to 24th of November 2023. In attendance was the gre...
French-speaking Africa and Madagascar: Formation Session
At the end of October a formation course for formators was held at the Teresian Centre (of the Congo Commissariat). The theme for the meeting was: Formation in the intercultural era. It was conducted by Brothers Valentin Ntumba from the Congo ...
News from the Commissariat of St, Joseph, the Caribbean Islands
CICLA of Latin America has requested our Commissariat to host the experience of a Second Noviciate 2023 and it will take place in the Formation Community 0f St. Joseph of the Americas. We have welcomed 9 students from CICLA and 2 from the Wa...
South Africa
25 years of Carmelite presence On 28 October 2023, the Carmelite Friars celebrated 25 years of Carmelite presence in South Africa, recalling that the first two friars arrived in Johannesburg on June 13, 1998. Initially, the...
Australia: Report on the friars’ Regional Chapter
The friars from Australia attended their Regional Chapter along with Fr Christianus Surinono OCD, General Definitor for East Asia, and Fr. Jim Noonan OCD, the Irish Provincial. Faced with few vocations for the friars from the Region (Australia, Ne...
Philippines: celebrating 100 years of the Carmelite Nuns presence
The Carmelite Communities all over the Philippines rejoice in thanking the Lord for the gift of 100 years of God’s faithfulness and love. It started in Jaro in November 1923 when Bishop James Paul McCloskey requested the Carmelite Nuns in ...
News from Madagascar
On October 1, 2023, on the occasion of the feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, our Patroness, 13 novices made their first vows in the church of Itaosy. From the 2nd to the 6th of October 2023, all Carmelites from Madagas...
India: Celebrating St Therese of the Child Jesus, the Patroness of Pushpashrama
The 150th Birth Anniversary and the Centenary of the Beatification of St Therese of the Child Jesus, the patroness of Pushpashrama, was celebrated on Sunday, 8 October 2023 at the Infant Jesus Shrine, Pushpashrama. The solemn Eucharisti...
News from the Province of Germany
From September the 29th to October the 1st, 2023, the ODCS National Assembly of the German Province was held in the retreat house of the Discalced Carmelite monastery in Birkenwerder, in the presence of the Provincial Fr. Jea...
Brazil: a church dedicated to St. Therese becomes an archdiocesan sanctuary
The Discalced Carmelite Order of Brazil celebrated the feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus with great solemnity in the various communities of the two Brazilian Provinces. This year, which marks the 150th anniversary of Thérèse Mar...
Updating of the Ratio Institutionis of the Order
From the 2nd to the 11th of October 2023, the members of the Commission for the updating of our Ratio Institutionis met at the Generalate to put together the various contributions sent by the Circumscriptions and to ...
