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Urgent: from Our Discalced Carmelite Friars in Egypt
Holy Week in Egypt begins with the blood of martyrs. We were all celebrating Palm Sunday in our Basilica of Santa Teresa parish in Shubra (Cairo) when the news was received of an attack on a Coptic church in the city of Tanta. We did not want to c...
Presence in the mission in Odisha stretching back over 25 years
A series of activities, which began with a round of celebrations in each community on the feast day of the Patroness of the Vicariate, St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, 1st October, 2016, in order to celebrate twenty-five years since th...
A Marian Congress in Fatima, Portugal
The Order of Carmelites and that of the Discalced Carmelites, prompted by the celebration of the first centenary of the apparitions in Fatima, have decided to call an International, Marian Congress as one family as an offering to the whole Church,...
St Joseph’s sanctuary of the Carmelite friars in Poznan made a minor basilica
The conventual church of the Discalced Carmelite friars in Poznan, Poland, was proclaimed a minor basilica on the 19th of March, this year, at a solemn ceremony at which presided Archbishop Gądecki, accompanied by various members of th...
Floods in Peru
Our brothers and sisters in Peru have suffered from the consequences of the floods that have hit the country, though not in a devastating way, as the Commissar, Fr Alfredo Amesti ocd reports. The most affected areas are in the north of the ...
The Discalced Carmelites in Tangiers (Morocco)
The presence of the Teresian Carmel in Morocco, as made evident by the community of Discalced Carmelites in Tangiers, continues its work in those Islamic lands with God’s help. It has been involved with various activities promoted by the ...
Visit of the Fr. General
Fr. General, Saverio Cannistrà, is visiting members of the Secular Carmel, nuns and friars from 12th to 24th March, in Belgium, Sweden and Denmark, staying in different monasteries and convents: those of Ghent, Bruges, Antwe...
Visits by the General Delegate for the OCDS
During the months of January and February, Fr. Alzinir Debastiani, ocd, the Father General’s delegate for Secular Carmelite communities, made two important visits to OCDS communities. The first was in Croatia from January 27th to 30th of ...
Meeting of the Definitory
From Monday, 6th March, the Definitory General, presided by Fr. Saverio, will meet in at its headquarters in the General House, as it normally does every three months....
The Carmelite nuns of Kananga-Malole, evacuated
For more than a year in the region of Kananga (Democratic Republic of the Congo) there have been clashes between members of the ethnic tribal majority and the central government of Kinshasa, resulting in the death of the local leader Kamuina Nsapu...
The Teresianum periodical is online
The website of the Teresianum now offers a new tool developed under the supervision of the director of its periodical, Teresianum, Father Christof Betschart, ocd. It allows the user to access and consult all the articles published in the ...
First Priestly Ordinations from North East India for the Regional Vicariate of West Bengal
January 2017 marks the most blessed month of the Vicariate of the Regional Vicariate of West Bengal, North East India of the Discalced Carmelites of the South Kerala Province. God granted us the first four OCD Priests from North India for o...
Good bye to Mons. Luna, a Discalced Carmelite and an Ecuadorian Bishop
At the age of 94 years, Mons. Luis Alberto Luna Tobar, Discalced Carmelite and Archbishop Emeritus of Cuenca, died last February the 7th in Quito, Ecuador. Mons. Luna was born on the 15th of December, 1923, into a well...
Cause for canonization of Sister Lucy of Fatima
On the coming 13th of February, the diocese of Coimbra in Portugal will conclude the diocesan section of the process for canonization of Sister Lucy Dos Santos, a Discalced Carmelite nun and one of the three Fatima visionaries. The Caus...
Church personality of the year in Nicaragua
From the on-line Spanish religious periodical “Religión Digital”, we learnt of the news that our brother, Monsignor José Silvio Baéz Ortega, OCD, auxiliary bishop in Managua has been nominated Church personality for 2016 in his country of N...
