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Indonesia : OCD & OCDS Nasional seminar and retreat
The seminar entitled “Experiencing God in the Dark Night: The Spirituality of St. John of the Cross” was held on January 9, 2026, at the Pastoral Center of the Archdiocese of Jakarta, in celebration of the Jubilee of St. John of the C...
Manual of Indulgences OCD
In response to several requests regarding the indulgences granted to our Order, the General Postulation has compiled the Decrees issued by the Apostolic Penitentiary (for the whole Order or for particular branches) that remain in force fo...
OCD Students Meet with OCDS Members of Central Italy
On Saturday, December 13 took place the Advent retreat of the five Roman OCDS communities at the Basilica of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus in Anzio in an environment of joy and deep communion. Joining them were the OCDS Provincial Delegate, Fr....
OCDS World Encounter
The OCDS World Encounter will take place in Avila, Spain from July 23rd to the 26th of 2026. Almost 1,000 people from all over the world will be participating. The theme is: “Witnesses of the Experience of God: Identity and Mission”. The objec...
UK: a symposium on Christian Human Development
The On-going Formation Committee of the Anglo-Irish Province organized a symposium on Christian human development. The event took place from 13th – 17th October. The setting was our Carmelite Priory in the Northern Irel...
Ecuador: 7th National Meeting of the Secular Carmelite Order
The city of Cuenca welcomed the Secular Carmelite Order of Ecuador with open arms from 1 to 3 November for our National Meeting. It was with immense joy that we hosted the 14 OCDS communities of Ecuador and more than 120 brothers and sisters. ...
Ivory Coast: Opening of the double jubilee in Abidjan
On Sunday, 19 October 2025, a solemn Mass was held in Abidjan to mark the opening of the silver jubilee of the presence of the Discalced Carmelite Friars in Ivory Coast and the creation of the parish of Saint Louis de Gonzague. In ...
Plenary indulgence for the jubilee year of Saint John of the Cross.
On 6 October 2025, the Apostolic Penitentiary published a decree granting a plenary indulgence on the occasion of the sanjuanist Centenaries, which will be celebrated from 14 December 2025 to 27 December 2026, during which the third centenary of t...
The Philippines: Fraternal Visit and 9th OCDS National Congress
The OCDS in the Philippines has 44 communities divided in five regions: Visayas, Mindanao, North Luzon, South Luzon A and South Luzon B. Previous to the 9th OCDS National Congress that took place in Tagaytay from the 4th to t...
Peru: Meeting of the OCDS communities
From 1 to 3 August 2025, a new edition of the Meeting of the OCDS communities was held in the Trujillo region, with the theme ‘Let us walk together, Lord’. More than 60 members of the Commissariat’s communities took par...
LITURGY OF THE ORDER
On 16 July 2025, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments approved the Editio Typica Alterae of the Proprium Missarum OCD (the ‘second edition’ of the ‘Carmelite Missal’ in Latin). Exceptionally, th...
Singapore : Meeting with the OCDS
From the 16th to the 18th of May, the members of the OCDS in Singapore came together to explore three key themes in the life of the Secular Order: the role and identity of the OCDS, formation in Carmelite spirituality, and living as Secular Order ...
Meetings with the OCDS of Thailand
The OCDS communities of Bangkok, Nakhon Sawan and Nakhon Pathom held a series of meetings from the 11th to the 14th of May with Brothers John Bosco Pricha Yangyuen, OCD, Joseph Somkrit Supatimasro, OCD, spiritual assistants, and Ramiro Casale, OCD...
Australia: OCDS celebrates St Therese of Lisieux’s Canonisation
To celebrate the centenary of the canonisation of St Thérèse of Lisieux, the OCDS community of Melbourne presented Holiness for All – an exhibition on the life and spirituality of St Thérèse. The exhibition was held at St Patrick...
BELARUS : CONSECRATION OF THE CARMELITE CHURCH OF MINSK
The Carmelite Church in Minsk was consecrated on the 7th of June 2025. The people of Belarus built the Church of the Holy Cross to give thanks for the gift of the Eucharist. Those who attended the celebration included the Archbishop-Metropolitan o...
