News Nuns Archivi - DISCALCED CARMELITES
USA: the Relics of St. Therese visit a Carmelite Monastery on its 100th anniversary
The Relics of St. Therese visited the Carmelite Monastery of Our Lady of Grace and St. Therese in Carmel, California, on the 100th anniversary of our foundation. We began our Centenary Anniversary with a Holy Year of Thanksgiving. Our B...
Plenary indulgence for the jubilee year of Saint John of the Cross.
On 6 October 2025, the Apostolic Penitentiary published a decree granting a plenary indulgence on the occasion of the sanjuanist Centenaries, which will be celebrated from 14 December 2025 to 27 December 2026, during which the third centenary of t...
Thailand: 25th anniversary of the Monastery of Nakhon Sawan
On September 27, 2025, the Carmelite Nuns celebrated the 25th anniversary of its founding, with a cardinal, bishops, priests, religious and large number of faithful. A brief history of the monastery: in 1999, Most Rev. Louis Cham...
India: Centenary Celebration of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus at Sacred Heart Monastery
The Cloistered Carmel Sisters of Sacred Heart Monastery, Kankanady, joyfully celebrated the Centenary of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus from September 28 to October 1, 2025. The celebration featured a special exhibition on the life of St. Thér...
Czech Republic: completion of work on the Discalced Carmelite monastery
The Carmelite monastery of St Joseph, founded in Prague in 1600, has changed location several times, mainly due to the hostile political situation in our country. The previous monastery was located in the centre of the capital, but because of exce...
CICLA North Meeting
The 8th Meeting of the nuns and friars of CICLA North, held from 30 June to 4 July 2025 at the Spiritual Centre of Nuestra Señora del Carmen in El Salvador, had the central theme of ‘L...
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...
Meetings with the OCDS of Thailand
The OCDS communities of Bangkok, Nakhon Sawan and Nakhon Pathom held a series of meetings from the 11th to the 14th of May with Brothers John Bosco Pricha Yangyuen, OCD, Joseph Somkrit Supatimasro, OCD, spiritual assistants, and Ramiro Casale, OCD...
Australia: OCDS celebrates St Therese of Lisieux’s Canonisation
To celebrate the centenary of the canonisation of St Thérèse of Lisieux, the OCDS community of Melbourne presented Holiness for All – an exhibition on the life and spirituality of St Thérèse. The exhibition was held at St Patrick...
BELARUS : CONSECRATION OF THE CARMELITE CHURCH OF MINSK
The Carmelite Church in Minsk was consecrated on the 7th of June 2025. The people of Belarus built the Church of the Holy Cross to give thanks for the gift of the Eucharist. Those who attended the celebration included the Archbishop-Metropolitan o...
Spain: Saint Teresa returns to her shrine in Alba de Tormes.
On the 26th of May, the urn containing the body of Saint Teresa of Jesus was returned to its usual place in the centre of the altarpiece in the church of the Discalced Carmelites in Alba de Tormes. From the 11th to the 25th of May, more than 93,00...
Philippines: Congress on prayer
On April 9, 2025, thousands of faithful gathered at the Smart Araneta Coliseum for the “Congress on Prayer II: Confidence in Love”. The event marked the 100th anniversary of St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s canonization and celebrated...
India: inauguration of the Juniors’ Course
The long-cherished dream of the Federation of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was realized on March 1, 2025, with the inauguration of the Juniors’ Course at Kurnool Carmel, the Federal Formation House. Rev. Bishop Johannes Gorantla OCD presi...
Siria: Message from the Carmelite Nuns of Aleppo – 11th March 2025
Dear friends, Many of you have asked for an update on the situation here, and we are very touched. The massacres that have taken place and continue to take place on the north-west coast of Syria, in the Alawite region where the former Presi...
Official statement: Facial reconstruction of Saint Teresa of Jesus
28th March 2025 510th anniversary of the birth of Saint Teresa of Jesus On 28 August 2024, in Alba de Tormes (Spain), the long process of identification and study of the mort...
