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2 June 2024

SPAIN: COMMENCEMENT OF RESEARCH ON THE TOMB OF SAINT TERESA OF JESUS

Since August 2022, the Discalced Carmelite Order has been studying and preparing projects regarding the re-opening of St. Teresa’s tomb in Alba de Tormes.  Her tomb has not been opened since 1914 and it is now hoped to undertake serious researc...

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5 May 2024

INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF OCD NUNS Nemi (Italy) – 14th to 20th April 2024

Daily Chronicle Sunday 14.04.2024 World-wide representatives of Discalced Carmelite Nuns gathered this evening at the Centro ad Gentes in Nemi, to commence work on the revision of their ...

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12 April 2024

SPAIN: Carmelite Nuns in Segovia celebrate the 450th anniversary of their foundation.

This year the Diocese of Segovia commemorates the 450th anniversary of St.  Teresa’s foundation of the Monastery of St. Joseph on 19th March 1574.  It was the 9th foundation of St. Teresa. In celebration...

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8 March 2024

Belgium: Oldest community of Carmelite nuns in the world marks 555 years of foundation

The Carmel of Our Lady of Consolation in Vilvoorde is the 4th and last foundation of Blessed John Soreth. It was canonically erected on 11 February 1469. The Sisters fled from Liege during the “Siege of Liege” in 1468. Their...

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11 February 2024

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...

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7 February 2024

SPAIN: THE HOLY SEE GRANTS A JUBILEE YEAR TO THE DISCALCED CARMELITE NUNS OF RONDA

The Carmelite Nuns of Ronda are celebrating a Jubilee Year from 21 January to 23 November 2024. The Bishop of Malaga, Monsignor Jesus Catala, petitioned this from the Holy See to honour the centenary of their foundation. The opening of the Jubilee...

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2 February 2024

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...

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10 January 2024

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...

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26 December 2023

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...

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20 December 2023

Hawaii: Carmelite monastery celebrates 50th year

On October 16, Hawaii’s Carmelite monastery celebrated its 50th year with a Mass celebrated by Bishop Larry Silva and the sisters’ families, friends and supporters. Fifty years ago, on Oct. 25, 1973, seven Carmelite nuns left...

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16 December 2023

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...

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4 December 2023

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 ...

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28 November 2023

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...

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14 November 2023

Israel: “We Carmelites of Jerusalem pray with these two peoples in conflict”

Our Lady of the Rosary: during the Office of Lauds and the Eucharist on Saturday, October 7, the alarm sounded almost continuously over Jerusalem… until about noon. The muffled sounds of rockets being destroyed by the Iron Dome made us reali...

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22 September 2023

Spain: Seminar on Intellectual Life among Discalced Carmelites

From 27 to 29 June, CITeS (Avila) hosted a seminar on intellectual life in the Discalced Carmelite Order.  There were 17 participants from 6 different countries (Spain, France, England, Italy, Poland and Switzerland).  Their discussions and refl...

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