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Mexico: Mexico: Fraternal visit to the OCDS and the Confraternities of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
In February, Fr. Ramiro Casale, OCD, General Delegate for the OCDS, accompanied by the Provincial Delegate for the OCDS, Fr. Pedro Martínez Nogales, OCD, made a fraternal visitation to the communities of the Secular Order and the Confraternities ...
Portugal : 20th anniversary of the death of Sister Lucie
On 13th February, 2005, Sister Lucie of Jesus and of the Immaculate Heart of Mary died at the Carmel of Saint Teresa at Coimbra. She was 97 years old, having spent 57 of them at the Carmel, during her long pilgrimage on this earth. ...
Launching of the School-Laboratory of online formation for the OCDS of Italy
Friday 31st January, 2025, saw the beginning of the School-Laboratory of online formation for formators, both current and future, organized by the Interprovincial OCDS Coordination of Italy. During this first online meeting, more...
Wallis and Futuna: Foundation of the OCDS
A group of people who gathers at the Carmelite Nuns Monastery of St. Therese in Wallis and Futuna, after a period of prayer, study and discernment, began formally their formation to become OCDS. The ceremony of admission took place last December 1...
Sumatra: Birth of OCDS in the Land of the Martyrs Blessed Dionysius and Redemptus
As we awaited the birth of our Savior, a significant event unfolded in the land of Aceh, North Sumatra, on December 22, 2024. Fourteen men and women committed themselves to begin the OCDS initiation period. This marked the beginning of OCDS histor...
Indonesia: OCDS National Assembly
On October 17-20, The OCDS of Indonesia held a national assembly in Denpasar Bali, which was attended by 14 communities’ representatives from all over Indonesia. A total of 103 participants attended. The theme was “Obedience as the mai...
Sri Lanka: News from the OCDS
On October 12, 2024, the OCDS in Sri Lanka gathered in Colombo for a fraternal sharing. The OCDS in Sri Lanka was founded on November 24, 1974, at Corpus Christi Carmel monastery, Mattakkuliya in Colombo. During the meeting the OCDS discussed impo...
India: Fraternal Visit to the OCDS
During the months of October and November, Fr. Ramiro Casale, Delegate General for the OCDS, visited the Seculars of the Indian Provinces of Karnataka-Goa, Malabar, Manjummel, South Kerala and Tamilnadu. The meetings and activities were an excel...
National OCDS Meeting in Holland
On October 4, 2024, members of the OCDS communities of The Hague, Volendam, Nijnsel, Rotterdam and Sittard in Holland assembled at Sint Nicolaaskerk Church in Baarn, to reflect on the topic, “Do whatever He tells you to do.” Each one of the co...
Austria: Jubilee celebration in Linz
On Sunday 15 September, we had a joyful celebration of a Pontifical Mass with Mons. Manfred Scheuer in the Carmelite Church of Linz, as a conclusion of the Jubilee years of Teresian Carmel’s presence in Austria. Numerous Brethren from Austria ...
Korea: 50th Anniversary of the arrival of Carmelites
On Saturday, 5 October 2024, a special Mass was celebrated in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the arrival of Friars of the Discalced Carmelite Order in Korea. Under the slogan “A Mysterious Journey, 50 years of blessings, still b...
Quebec: Annual Retreat of the OCDS
The OCDS in Quebec held their annual retreat from 13 – 15th September at the Centre of Prayer in Trois-Rivieres, on the theme of “Who will lead me to happiness, with Teresa of Jesus”. The retreat was led by Fr Francois-Dominique Lam...
Puerto Rico: OCDS National Assembly
The OCDS communities in Puerto Rico gathered together on August 3, 2024, in the city of Caguas for a national gathering. The meeting began with the Eucharist and was followed by a conference with the title, “OCDS: Vocation and Mission.” Afterw...
Columbia: meeting of Formators – CICLA
A meeting of Formators from CICLA was held in the priory of Villa de Leyva, from 4-24 August, in the presence of friars from several countries in Latin America (Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Mexico, Columbia, Peru, Costa Rica, Panama, Bolivia, Br...
USA: OCDS Congress of the Washington Province
The 2024 OCDS Congress that took place in Wakefield, MA, from August 22nd to the 25th, gathered hundreds of OCDS from 33 states in the United States and from abroad. Some Carmelite Fathers and Nuns were present too making it ...
