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Death of Fr. Reginald Foster
On 25th December, Fr. Reginald Thomas Foster, Discalced Carmelite of the Province of Washington, died in St. Anne’s hospital in Milwaukee. He had been moved there eight days previously after testing positive for coronavirus and in add...
Centenary for the de “LA OBRA MÁXIMA”
Publication of La Obra Máxima began in January 1921 thanks to the missionary zeal of Ven. Fr. Juan Vicente Zengotita (1862-1943) who, after 17 fruitful years of pastoral duties in India, on his return to Spain, with Carmelite, missionary sensitiv...
Cástor Oswaldo Azuaje Pérez, O.C.D., Bishop of the Diocese of Trujillo, Venezuela, died Friday morning 8 January 2021 in Valera (Trujillo)
Bishop Azuaje was born in Maracaibo on 19 October 1951 in a family of six brothers. He first learned about the Discalced Carmelite order in 1966 through the nuns at Mérida, in the Venezuelan Andes. Discerning his vocation to the Teresian C...
Fr General at the Teresianum
As has been customary in recent years, December the 14th, feast of St. John of the Cross, was a special day for the three communities of the Teresianum: Br. Mari Domingo Savio of Korea, Br. John of the conversion of St Paul from Vietnam...
Online Activities
Our brothers and sisters around the world (nuns, friars, and Secular Order members) are contributing in many ways to bring comfort and hope to people suffering from the pandemic provoked by the coronavirus. Among these contributions, it is ...
International Spirituality Summit on St Teresa of Avila in Oxford, UK
On 16th November 2020, around 105 people gathered, via Zoom, to participate in the Spirituality Summit ‘Teresa of Avila: Teacher and Guide’ convened by the Centre for Applied Carmelite Spiritu...
Inauguration of the Chair of Carmelite Studies
Recently, on December the 14th, as we communicated through our social networks, the inaugural conference of the Chair of Carmelite Studies at the Catholic University of America took place. The problems generated by the COVID-19 p...
Return to normality
On December the 3rd, the feast of Saint Francis Xavier, we received exceptionally good news in the General Curia: molecular tests for the detection of coronavirus gave a negative result. Thus, was overcome the COVID-19 contagious situat...
Bernard Sesé dies
Recently, on the 6th of November, there died in Paris Bernard Sesé, the professor of Spanish literature and French poet. A member of the Royal Spanish Academy in France since 1996, he devoted much of his life to the study of Spanish po...
Newly erected monastery of Carmel Jakarta
The Archbishop of Jakarta, Ignatius Cardinal Suharyo presided over the Solemn Mass on October 15, 2020 where the decree of erection issued by the Cardinal was read. It was an Online Mass since Jakarta is the worst affected zone from the corona vir...
Teresianum: New Chair
The Pontifical Theological Faculty Teresianum announced on 27th October that the Congregation for Catholic Education of the Holy See has nominated Fr. Christof Betschart OCD as Chair of the same for the triennium 2020-2023 ...
The hispanist Joseph Pérez has died
The outstanding hispanist, Joseph Pérez, died in Bordeaux, France on 8th October. He was an outstanding scholar specialising in the History of Modern Spain and was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Social Sciences in 2014. He wa...
The first Chapter Congress in the Congo
The first Chapter Congress of the new Commissariat of St. Joseph of the Congo took place from 24th – 29th September, presided by Fr. General, Saverio Cannistrà, who was accompanied by Fr. Daniel Ehigie, the Definitor for Africa. Apar...
OCD Episcopal Vicar in Cape Town
Fr. Marie Joseph, ocd, of Karnataka Goa Province, has been appointed Episcopal Vicar for Religious Life in the Archdiocese of Cape Town, South Africa. He will also be a member of the College of Consultants. We congratulate Fr. Marie Joseph and sen...
