News Friars Archivi - Page 8 of 31 - DISCALCED CARMELITES
Avila: Meeting of European Formators
The annual meeting of OCD European Formators was held in CITeS from 29th January to 2 February 2024. About thirty Formators from all the European OCD Circumscriptions, as well as Fr. Roberto Maria Pirastu, Definitor General, were in att...
9th Assembly of Conference of Carmelite Superiors of French-speaking Africa and Madagascar
From January 21 to 26, 2024 the Conference of OCD Superiors of French speaking Africa and Madagascar held its annual assembly at Kinshasa (RDC). The two Definitors for Africa, Frs. Jean-Baptiste Pagabeleguem and Philbert Namphande, attended. The...
NICARAGUA: TERESIAN JUBILEE IN THE PARISH 0F ST. TERESA, CARAZO
We are happy to announce that our Parish celebrates a special Jubilee this year, the 100th anniversary of the arrival here of the statue of St. Teresa of Jesus, Patron of our Parish. She is known here simply as “La Doctora”. ...
INDIA: ST. TERESA OF AVILA’S SHRINE IN MAHE ELEVATED TO DIGNITY OF A MINOR BASILICA
The Shrine of St. Teresa in Mahe is one of the most visited shrines in India. Situated in the Diocese of Calicut it has just recently been elevated to the dignity of a Minor Basilica, thus becoming the first Minor Basilica in North Kerala. The Pap...
India (Karnataka Goa): Province Day and Silver Jubilee of Profession
The celebration of the Province Day at Sadbhavana on December 13, 2023, was a joyous occasion that coincided with the Silver Jubilee of the Religious Profession of Frs. Jeevan Tauro, Alphonse Britto, Rovel D’Souza, Ajith Rodrigues and Canute Tau...
ITALY: CONCLUSION OF 150th ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTH OF SAINT THERESE OF THE INFANT JESUS
The Semi-OCD Province of Naples concluded festivities for the 150th anniversary of the birth of St. Therese with a solemn celebration. Fr. Luigi Gaetani presided and was accompanied by the Bari OCD community and our students in formatio...
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...
