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Course for the Our Lady of Mt Carmel Association ─South Brasil
From the 21st to the 28th of September 2018, the Carmelite nuns of the Our Lady of Mt Carmel Association ─South Brasil─ gathered together in the St John of the Cross House of Prayer in Porto Alegre, to take part in a cour...
Our Lady of Mount Carmel in China
The COMMUNICATIONES number 257 (05/08/2014) included some errors about the foundation of the Hong Kong Carmel in China. Specifically, the monastery of Hong Kong was officially founded in 1937 (not in 1923) and from then until today the Disc...
The Italian feminine Discalced Carmel with the Fr. General in Rome
From 14th-16th September, the municipality of Sacrofarno near Rome (Italy) was the scene of an encounter between the Fr. General and a good number of Mother superiors of Italian Discalced Carmelite nuns in Italy. Although the...
The Discalced Carmelite Nuns’ Federation of St Joseph of Guadalupe in Mexico celebrates the 50th Anniversary of its Canonical Foundation
On the 24th of September, began the activities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the federation of the Mexican Discalced Carmelite nuns, with a Eucharistic celebration at which presided our Father General, Fr. Saver...
Gathering of Discalced Carmelite nuns in the Teresianum
More than thirty Discalced Carmelite nuns in charge of formation and superiors of their communities met between 7th-13th September last in the Teresianum in Rome. During the encounter, the nuns who took part attended two cour...
Meeting in Brazil
Invited by the Latin American nuns, Fr General went to Brazil to have a meeting, from the 26th to the 29th July, with 160 Discalced Carmelite nuns and 20 friars from Latin America and the Caribbean. Accompanying Fr Saverio wa...
Formation course for the Italian nuns in Nënshat, Albania
Young nuns from the Italian “Mater Carmeli” Federation of monasteries began a meeting on June 9th in the spirituality house of the Discalced Carmelite Fathers in Nënshat, Albania. Professed nuns together with those under formation numbered 23...
Cardinal Braz de Aviz visits the Discalced Carmelites of Bologna
On June 10th, our sisters in Bologna received a fraternal visit from the Cardinal Prefect of the CIVCSVA, João Cardinal Bráz de Aviz, who was traveling to nearby Pontecchio Marconi to participate in a day of the General Chapter of Father Kolbe...
Fr General, visiting Dutch Carmel
Towards the end of June, Fr Saverio Cannistrà, ocd, Superior General, visited our Carmelite brothers and sisters in Holland, accompanied by his secretary, Fr Rafal Willkowski. He was able to meet all the friars of the Semiprovince and to visit, a...
The feminine Teresian Carmel in Chile
The Discalced Carmelite nuns of Chile recently published a text titled, “The daughters of Saint Teresa in Chile,” in homage to Holy Mother Teresa in the context of the celebration of the fifth centenary of her birth. The book begins wit...
450 years of the foundation of Malagón (the third foundation of St Teresa)
“On Palm Sunday, [the 11th of April] in the year 1568, with the people of the town, we went in procession to the church, in our white mantles and with veils covering our faces. A sermon was preached there, and from that church the Ble...
The Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Panama will prepare hosts for the World Youth Day
On the 25th of January 2017, with six foundresses coming from Ecuador, life began in the Teresian Carmelite nuns’ monastery of St Joseph and Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity, in the Panamanian diocese of Colón-Kuna Yala. As the ...
Indian nuns with Fr. General and the Definitor
On 3rd February, Eucharistic was celebrated by Fr. General and the Definitor along with all the provincials and all the Prioresses of Indian Carmel and the office bearers of the three associations in India. Our sisters gathered at Hyder...
News from the Carmel in Tangiers (Morocco)
The community of Discalced Carmelite Nuns in Tangiers have sent us some news which we wish to share with you. During 2017, two Sisters arrived to build up the community by their presence: Sister Sidioly, originally from Bolivia, who came fr...
The Tolentino Discalced Carmelite Nuns
In this information service, we frequently receive enquiries about the situation of our Discalced Carmelite sisters in Tolentino, who, as we informed you on the 3rd of November 2016, had to abandon their monastery after severe damage ca...
