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Association of Carmelites in the Holy Land
The Association of Carmelites in the Holy Land is a fraternal bond of mutual help, it has existed since the end of the 90s. Today we have become a new reality which is now called, “Federation our Lady of Mount Carmel of the Carmelite Nuns in...
IV Carmelite Congress of Africa, Madagascar and the Islands of the Indian Ocean
The fourth Teresian Carmelite Congress of Africa, Madagascar, and the Islands and the Indian Ocean took place from October 13 to 18, 2019. The focus was fraternal life. On Sunday, October 13, 2019, the activities began with a Pontifical Mas...
Activities of the Superior General and the Definitors
As we informed a few days ago, Father Saverio Cannistrá, Superior General, participated in the first elective assembly of the Association of the Most Holy Trinity, recently created in Italy. Elected in this assembly are: President: ...
New Proper Calendar
Rome, 24 September 2019 Dear Fathers, Today, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has handed over to the Order the approval of the new Proper Calendar, which was signed on the Solemnity of Our La...
Meeting of Discalced Carmelite Nuns in Cyprus
Between the 16th and 21st of September, the Discalced Carmelite Nuns’ Association of the Holy Land and North Africa met in Cyprus to review their statutes, according to the Holy See’s provisions in the document Cor Or...
IV Meeting of the OCDS of the South Cicla
Between the 19th and the 22nd of September 2019, nearly 80 members of the OCDS family from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, accompanied by some OCD religious, gathered together in the house of the Epis...
Activities of Fr General
September the 27th last, Father General, Saverio Cannistrà, ocd, visited the group of twenty Discalced Carmelite Nuns who were at the Teresianum beginning the training course prepared by two of the Italian federations, in which collabo...
Activities of Fr. General & the Definitors
On 24th September, Fr. General, who was invited to participate in the General Chapter of the Carmelites of the Ancient Observance (O Carm), arrived in Sassone, near Rome. He presided at the 8 O’clock Mass, after which he gave a confer...
The IVth Congress of the Teresian Carmel in Africa & Madagascar
Between 14th and 18th October 2019 the IVth International Congress of the Discalced Carmel for Africa and Madagascar will be celebrated in Yaounde, Cameroon. The central theme will be fraternal life, a space in whi...
New Webmaster: Lorenzo Barone
Lorenzo Barone is a member of the OCDS in the Central Italian Province (OCD). He was born in Rome, 5 July 1992. From 2001 to 2003 he was a member of the Pueri Cantores of the P...
Impromptu address of the Holy Father. Midday prayer in the Monastery of the Discalced Carmelites (Antananarivo. Saturday, 7 September 2019)
You will be given a copy of the text I prepared, so that you can read and ponder it quietly. But right now I would like to speak to you from the heart. The reading from the First Book of Kings (2:2b-3) was addressed to Joshua. It begins wit...
General Definitory
On the 2ndof September, the Ordinary meeting of the General Definitory began, chaired by Fr Saverio Cannistrà and in the presence of all the Definitors. This meeting takes place after the summer break in the northern hemisphere, which ...
News from the Order’s Information Secretariat
Coinciding with the start of the ordinary session of the General Definitory on the 2ndof September, the team in charge of the Communication of the Order, under the direction of Fr Agustí Borrell, Vicar General and directly responsible ...
Discalced Carmelite nuns at the Teresianum
The “Teresianum” Pontifical Faculty and Pontifical Institute of Spirituality in Rome offered a course to a group of Italian Discalced Carmelite nuns from the 25th to the 28th of June this year. The sisters ...
Documents of the 2009-2015 sexennium in French
Marchons ensemble ! La parole d’un chef de famille. [Let’s go together! The word of a head of a household]. Saverio Cannistrà, o.c.d. Documents of the 2009-2015 sexennium, collected and presented by the Carmel of Devel...