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OCDS in Reunion Island
The OCDS in Reunion Island was founded in 1989. The community was canonically erected on 13 April 2004 and now numbers 19. Our Island is in the Indian Ocean and is part of the OCD Commissariat of Madagascar. We hold our meetings either in th...
Poland: OCDS Formation Meeting
A three day Formation Meeting for members of the Discalced Carmelite Secular Order of the Cracow Province was concluded in Wadowice on Sunday 19 November 2023. The theme for the meeting was “Called to the service of the Church in a Carmelite c...
Ireland: New OCDS Community in Limerick
Sixteen Secular Carmelite Aspirants from a newly formed group in Limerick (Ireland) took their First Promises on September 2nd, 2023. The group, which comprises twenty members, at various stages of formation, is under the spiritual guid...
XV CICLA CONGRESS of Latin America and the Caribbean Islands
This XV Latin American Congress of Spirituality, entitled “The importance and influence of St. Therese of the Child Jesus in the Synodal Church” was held from the 20th to 24th of November 2023. In attendance was the gre...
French-speaking Africa and Madagascar: Formation Session
At the end of October a formation course for formators was held at the Teresian Centre (of the Congo Commissariat). The theme for the meeting was: Formation in the intercultural era. It was conducted by Brothers Valentin Ntumba from the Congo ...
News from the Commissariat of St, Joseph, the Caribbean Islands
CICLA of Latin America has requested our Commissariat to host the experience of a Second Noviciate 2023 and it will take place in the Formation Community 0f St. Joseph of the Americas. We have welcomed 9 students from CICLA and 2 from the Wa...
THE OCDS IN MAURICE
The OCDS on the island of Maurice has a solid foundation. The community of “Saint Therese of the Child Jesus of the Holy face” has been canonically established since 1983. Its members meet regularly and pay special attention to their life of p...
Hawaii: Carmelite monastery celebrates 50th year
On October 16, Hawaii’s Carmelite monastery celebrated its 50th year with a Mass celebrated by Bishop Larry Silva and the sisters’ families, friends and supporters. Fifty years ago, on Oct. 25, 1973, seven Carmelite nuns left...
South Africa
25 years of Carmelite presence On 28 October 2023, the Carmelite Friars celebrated 25 years of Carmelite presence in South Africa, recalling that the first two friars arrived in Johannesburg on June 13, 1998. Initially, the...
Brazil: St. Joseph’s OCDS Provincial Congress
From 2 to 5 November 2023 the 37th Provincial Congress of St. Joesph’s Province of Brazil took place at the Teresian Centre of Spirituality of Sao Roque in San Paolo. This included the Assembly for elections and the regionalization of...
Australia: Report on the friars’ Regional Chapter
The friars from Australia attended their Regional Chapter along with Fr Christianus Surinono OCD, General Definitor for East Asia, and Fr. Jim Noonan OCD, the Irish Provincial. Faced with few vocations for the friars from the Region (Australia, Ne...
Philippines: celebrating 100 years of the Carmelite Nuns presence
The Carmelite Communities all over the Philippines rejoice in thanking the Lord for the gift of 100 years of God’s faithfulness and love. It started in Jaro in November 1923 when Bishop James Paul McCloskey requested the Carmelite Nuns in ...
News from Madagascar
On October 1, 2023, on the occasion of the feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, our Patroness, 13 novices made their first vows in the church of Itaosy. From the 2nd to the 6th of October 2023, all Carmelites from Madagas...
India: Celebrating St Therese of the Child Jesus, the Patroness of Pushpashrama
The 150th Birth Anniversary and the Centenary of the Beatification of St Therese of the Child Jesus, the patroness of Pushpashrama, was celebrated on Sunday, 8 October 2023 at the Infant Jesus Shrine, Pushpashrama. The solemn Eucharisti...
News from the Province of Germany
From September the 29th to October the 1st, 2023, the ODCS National Assembly of the German Province was held in the retreat house of the Discalced Carmelite monastery in Birkenwerder, in the presence of the Provincial Fr. Jea...
