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ISRAEL: VISIT OF CARDINAL PIERBATTISTA PIZZABALLA
From 11 to 16 June 2024, His Eminence Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, engaged in a Pastoral Visitation of Haifa, meeting with the ecclesial and religious communities there. In particular, he visited the Latin Pa...
BEATIFICATION OF ANNE OF JESUS
With immense joy we share with you the official announcement that Pope Francis will preside at the ceremony of beatification of Venerable Anne of Jesus in the Arch-diocese of Malines-Brussels on Sunday 29 September 2024. Anne of Jesus is on...
IVORY COAST: FORMATION IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Fr. Jerome Paluku OCD, Secretary General for Missionary Cooperation, ran a Formation Programme in Financial Management and Project Organization for the Provincial Delegation of West Africa. The training sessions were held at Abidjan in the Ivory...
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...
ITALY: RETREAT FOR DISCALCED CARMELITES
From 8 to 13 April, some 50 OCD Religious from the Provinces of Venice, Liguria and Central Italy and the Commissariats of Lombardy and Sicily, spent a week on Retreat at the “Santa Croce” Monastery of Bocca di Magra. The theme chosen f...
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...
THE PHILIPPINES: 75th ANNIVERSARY OF FOUNDATION OF CARMELITE NUNS MONASTERY IN CEBU
Last year, the Discalced Carmelites celebrated 100 years of presence in the Philippine Islands, with the arrival of French Carmelite Nuns in Jaro, Iloilo, on 9 November 1923. Now this year, the Archbishop has declared a “Special year of Grace...
INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF OCD NUNS Nemi (Italy) – 14th to 20th April 2024
Daily Chronicle Sunday 14.04.2024 World-wide representatives of Discalced Carmelite Nuns gathered this evening at the Centro ad Gentes in Nemi, to commence work on the revision of their ...
OCD and OCarm met at Monastery in Bocca di Magra
On April 2-6, 2024, the General Councils of the OCD and of the OCarm met at the Discalced Carmelite Monastery of Santa Croce, Bocca di Magra, Liguria. As has become the tradition since 1991, the two Councils meet twice a year, in June and D...
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...
BURKINA FASO: Assistance for the evacuated of Dedougou
Due to terrorism, many people have had to be evacuated in Dedougou and are now homeless. Many of these are women and children and some are relatives of the OCD Friars of our Delegation. Being aware of the needs of these brothers and sisters, t...
