News OCDS Archivi - CARMELITANI SCALZI
Meeting of OCDS Communities in Indonesia
The family of the OCDS in Indonesia counts already with fifteen communities present on seven different islands. Its members are committed to their life of prayer, fraternity and service in the Church and in the World. Several communities gathered ...
Austria: Visit to the OCDS communities
The four OCDS communities in Austria located in, Graz, Jeutendorf, Linz and Vienna received the visit of the Provincial of Discalced Carmelites in Austria, Fr. Paul Saji, OCD and the General Delegate for the OCDS, Fr. Ramiro Casale, OCD. Each comm...
DigiCarmel: DIGITALIZATION OF OCD INFORMATION BULLETINS 1968-2024
The digitalization and online publication of the Order’s official bulletins has finally been completed. This is the result of a prolonged process of collecting and cataloguing of all the informative material produced in nearly 60 years. I...
HUNGARY: OCDS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
The Carmelite Secular Order is present in 16 Hungarian cities. Two OCDS Communities from Rumania have also been united with these 16 Hungarian ones. In May this year, the OCDS National Council with representatives of the various OCDS Communiti...
GERMANY: CARMELITE FAMILY ANNUAL GATHERING
The Friars of the German Province met from 15 to 19 April 2024 at the Carmelite Spirituality Centre of Birkenwerder (near Berlin) for their annual Provincial ‘Week’. For some years now, our Carmelite Nuns, members of the OCDS and Friars of o...
COLOMBIA: 60th ANNIVERSARY OF CANONICAL ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PROVINCE
60 years ago, 25 April 1964, the presence of the Discalced Carmelites in Colombia was established as a Province. This new Province was born under the patronage of St, Therese of the Child Jesus and was composed of 6 Monasteries, with 45 Solemnly...
PERU: 2024 OCDS RETREAT
Members of the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites in Peru met for their annual Retreat from the 23 to 25 February 2024. This year’s venue was the Spirituality Centre of the Dominican Missionaries of the Rosary in Lima. This annual Retreat...
THE OCDS IN GHANA
An OCDS Community is present in the city of Tamale and holds its meetings in the Monastery of the Carmelite Nuns there. Some of the OCDS members will pronounce their temporal vows shortly. All of them are deeply involved in their formation and...
NIGERIA: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE OCDS
Last February, representatives of the OCDS Communities of Nigeria met in Benin City to discuss some important matters relating to their life as members of the Carmelite Secular Order. The General OCDS Delegate as well as the Delegate for Nigeria...
DEATH OF FATHER ALOYSIUS DEENEY, OCD
Father Aloysius Deeney, OCD (Geoge Joseph Deeney), died, as a result of cancer, in Indonesia, on 14 March 2024, at the age of 75. Father Aloysius was born in 1948 in Pennsylvania and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia...
India: OCDS conference held at Margao
The OCDS of Goa and Karnataka provinces held a three-day conference at Margao after a two-year absence due to the Covid-19 pandemic. “Walking in Love”, was the theme which ruled the three-day conference. The conference was attended by 9...
OCDS in Reunion Island
The OCDS in Reunion Island was founded in 1989. The community was canonically erected on 13 April 2004 and now numbers 19. Our Island is in the Indian Ocean and is part of the OCD Commissariat of Madagascar. We hold our meetings either in th...
Poland: OCDS Formation Meeting
A three day Formation Meeting for members of the Discalced Carmelite Secular Order of the Cracow Province was concluded in Wadowice on Sunday 19 November 2023. The theme for the meeting was “Called to the service of the Church in a Carmelite c...
Ireland: New OCDS Community in Limerick
Sixteen Secular Carmelite Aspirants from a newly formed group in Limerick (Ireland) took their First Promises on September 2nd, 2023. The group, which comprises twenty members, at various stages of formation, is under the spiritual guid...
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...
