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News from Madagascar (first quarter 2022)
In addition to our Carmelite annual retreat and the sports meeting between priests and students that usually concludes this beautiful fraternal time, this new year of 2022 began with the grace of the solemn profession of three brothers and their o...
OCDS Presence in Senegal
At the end of the celebration of the 450th anniversary of the Teresian Carmelite Order, the OCDS in Senegal was born in Dakar on November 18, 2019. On this occasion, the Carmelite friars met Véronique Lukelo, OCDS from the Democratic Republic of ...
Visit of Father General to the Shrine of Saint Teresa of Los Andes (Chile)
On Sunday, February 20, the community of the Shrine of Sainta Teresa of Los Andes was celebrating the visit of Father Miguel Márquez. This coincided with the visit of the Animator General of the Sisters, Sister María José Gay. Both came on pilg...
Welcoming Ukraine refugees to the OCD monastery in Snagov, Romania
In our Snagov monastery in Romania reside Fr. Antonio Prestino, Fr. Marco Secchi, Fr. Mihai Lauș Fr. Tarcisio Favaro, from the Venice Province. Together with them are members of the Carmelite Ecclesial Movement. Since March 9, they have been jo...
News from the Secular Carmel in Ukraine – From Verinica Zuieva, OCDS in Kiev
I would like to share with you the current situation of our OCDS communities in Ukraine. There are 46 of us who want to live by Carmelite spirituality. But first, let’s make a brief history of Secular Carmel in our Eastern European land....
Inauguration of the Teresian Jubilee
Avila The opening of the Holy Door on Sunday, March the 13th, by the Bishop of Avila, Msgr. José María Gil Tamayo, marked the beginning of the Jubilee Year. The church of the La Santa Monaste...
Summary of the humanitarian activities of the Discalced Carmelites in the first month of the war in Ukraine
2022.03.24c Carta, Resumen...
NEWS FROM KOREA
Br. Mary-Dominic Savio, OCD, was ordained a priest on 11 February. He was born at Naju-si (Korea) in 1986 and made his First Profession as a Carmelite in 2015. He studied at the Teresianum in Rome Fr. Mary-Dominic’s family, the Carmelite ...
CARMELITE NEWS FROM GONZAGUE-VILLE (Abidjan, Ivory Coast)
This year St. Joseph’s Monastery has 16 friars from Togo, Burkina and the Ivory Coast. They are involved in Parochial ministry, studies, teaching and spiritual accompaniment. Their daily programmes revolve around prayer, liturgy, recreation and ...
LA OBRA MAXIMA: DEVELOPMENT AT INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
Ever since Fr. Juan Vicente Zengotita, OCD, launched La Obra Maxima in January 1921, there have been continuing changes both in its format and content. Thanks to the collaboration of so many Discalced Carmelites, the review has become the...
NEWS FROM THE CARMELITE NUNS IN TONGA
On Saturday 15 January, the eruption of an under-water volcano near Tonga caused tsunamis in various islands of the South Pacific Ocean. Sea levels rose along the coast of Peru and the Pacific coasts of the United States, while tsunamis and evacua...
SEVENTH ASSEMBLY OF CARMELITE SUPERIORS OF FRANCOPHONE AFRICA AND MADAGASCAR (Senegal, 24-28 January 2022)
The Conference of Carmelite Superiors of Francophone Africa and Madagascar held a meeting in Dakar from 24th to 28th January. Eleven representatives from 5 of the 6 Circumscriptions of our Conference – Congo, Cameroon, Cent...
FATHER GENERAL VISITS THE HOLY LAND
Our General, Fr. Miguel Marquez, paid a fraternal visit to the Carmelites in the Holy Land from 19 January until 2 February 2022. Going back to a General Chapter of 1632, there is a tradition that Fr. General is also the Prior of Mount Carmel. Thi...
AVILA: JUBILEE YEAR FOR IV CENTENARY OF SAINT TERESA’S CANONIZATION | 12 March 2022 – 15 October 2023
At the request of Mons. Gil Tamayo, Bishop of Avila, Pope Francis has decreed that Avila will celebrate a Jubilee Year to mark the IV centenary of the canonization of St. Teresa of Jesus. This Jubilee will have an unusual duration: it will be cele...
Call for help Ukraine
My dear brothers and sisters, We are all united with Ukraine and with our brothers and sisters there. We forward to you this urgent request for help for the needs of the people of Ukraine. At this moment I ask you for generosity...
