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Stella Maris
Dear brothers, sisters, friends, We inform you that from our website carmelholylanddco.org in a testing phase you can watch 24/24 in streaming the central altar of our Basilica of Stella Maris and pray and contemplate the Virgin of Mount Carmel and the cave of the Prophet Elijah in real time […]
Writings of Santa Teresa of the Andes
To mark the first centenary of the death of St. Teresa of the Andes, the Discalced Carmelites of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit of the Andes are making available a website with the Saint’s complete, original writings. This community, located in the Diocese of San Felipe in Chile, this […]
Exceptional Woman. Fifty years of the Doctorate of Santa Teresa of Jesus
The 50th Anniversary of the Doctorate of Santa Teresa of Jesus will be celebrated on September 27, 2020. In commemoration, the Bishopric of Avila, the Discalced Carmelites, and the Catholic University of Avila (UCAV), along with collaboration from the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, have organized the International Congress “Exceptional Woman. […]
Commissariat of San José del Congo
Our Order’s presence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Congo – or Congo Brazzaville – is an impassioned history that spans more than 50 years and that now reaches a new milestone with the creation of the Commissariat of San Jose del Congo by the […]
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Message of John Paul II to the Carmelite family (2001)
Therefore two truths are evoked by the sign of the Scapular: on the one hand, the constant protection of the Blessed Virgin, not only on life’s journey, but also at the moment of passing into the fullness of eternal glory; on the other, the awareness that devotion to her cannot […]
BENEDICT XVI ANGELUS Les Combes (Aosta Valley) Sunday, 16 July 2006
Through a happy coincidence, this Sunday falls on 16 July, the day when the liturgy commemorates Our Lady of Mount Carmel. The slopes of Carmel, a high ridge that runs down the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea at the altitude of Galilee, are dotted with numerous natural caves, beloved […]
Prague nuns Transfer
After a long period of discernment, the Discalced Carmelites Nuns of Prague have left the monastery they occupied in the city, to move to a new one in Drasty, a small town located a few kilometres from the capital of the Czech Republic. The final transfer took place on the […]
Listening and accompanying
The pandemic crisis generated by COVID-19, with the consequent confinement of millions of people on five continents, has also affected the daily service that Discalced Carmelite friars and nuns offer to so many people, in the face of the impossibility of celebrating Mass in convents and monasteries, receiving visitors, performing […]
Indian’s Journey in Combatting Covid -19
COVID-19 has brought the world to a Stop! As we know it has already swallowed over 2,50,000 people and kept billions of people under panic and fear! Over 3 million people affected by the virus still growing! Here is a small information on what’s happening in India As of 6th […]
COVID-19 News
In recent weeks we have received some news about the pandemic caused by COVID-19. From the Iberian Province of Discalced Carmelites, the sad news arrived of the death of four religious because of the virus. There are reports of friars and nuns being infected and having to go to hospital. […]
Updates on the website
During the first days of May we have done some update work on the website. Therefore we have not been able to upload news to it since early May. Similarly, the next issue of COMMUNICATIONES will include less news than usual. We apologize and encourage you to follow the current […]
Our Communities in the face of COVID-19
The Information Secretary of the General OCD Curia has been made aware of a great number of initiatives being carried out by the religious of the Order to address the COVID-19 crisis. Also, we have confirmed that some religious provinces and monasteries are directly suffering the consequences of the pandemic […]
General Definitory
The Father General as well as the Definitors are in Rome in the Generalate, according to the norms established by the Italian government in response to the crisis generated by COVID-19 which affects practically the entire world. From there, they wish first to send a fraternal greeting to all the […]
