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Solemn Professions in the Hai Phong Carmel (Vietnam)
The Hai Phong Monastery of Carmelite nuns is situated in the Diocese of Nam Am, Vietnam. It was founded from the Hue Carmel. Two years after its inauguration, the monastery continues to grow both in terms of nuns and those from the locality. On De...
Message from our Father General
I would like to address the whole Order, friars, nuns and members of the OCDS, in this dramatic and terrible moment: in union with the call and anguished supplication of Pope Francis to all the People of God, I would like to ask you most ardently,...
Fiftieth anniversary of Carmel in Central Africa
On December 16, 1971, Fathers Nicolò Ellena, Marco Conte, Agostino Mazzocchi and Carlo Cencio arrived in Bozoum, in the parish of San Michele, to help the Capuchin friars and then succeed them. Among the Capuchins at that time was Fr. Armando Gia...
The journey towards unity of the Italian OCDS
“Walking towards unity”: was the aim motivating the Interprovincial Coordination Council of Italy, at the invitation of the previous General Delegate, Father Alzinir Debastiani ocd, to begin the drafting of a Formation Process th...
News from the Secular Order in Iceland
On December 11, 2021, six members in formation in the Discalced Carmelite Secular Order in Hafnarfjörður made their temporary Promises in the OCDS, during a celebration in the Monastery of the Discalced Carmelite nuns in Hafnarfjörður. Presidi...
Two young Friars die in a road accident.
On January the 4th this year, our fellow friars, Masin Digal and Liudas Parichha, from Delhi Province, died tragically in a car accident. They were visiting their families after a long separation due to the pandemic. On January the 4th,...
Father General’s Visit to Poland
The year 2021 was a Jubilee Year for the Congregation of the Carmelite Sisters of the Child Jesus. Exactly 100 years ago, on December 31, the Religious Institute was born, founded by the Servant of God Fr. Anzelm Gądek OCD and the Servant of God,...
FR. ROMULO CUARTAS LONDONO, OCD, DIES AGED 73
Fr. Romulo Cuartas Londono (1948-2021) was originally from Colombia. He entered the Discalced Carmelite Order on 2nd February 1969 and was ordained a priest July 3rd 1977. In that same year he got a Licence in Pastoral Th...
95th anniversary of the foundation of the Carmel of Quezon City (Philippines)
The Carmel of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus celebrated its 95th foundation anniversary last November 24, 2021. His Grace, the Most Reverend Charles J. Brown, D.D., Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines, led the Thanksgiving Mass, toget...
CARMELITE NUNS OF TOLENTINO (ITALY): BLESSING AS WORK BEGINS
On December 11th, the Nuns of Tolentino, had the blessing, not of the first stone of their future convent, but rather of its first plank of wood. It had happened, that as Mass began on the 30th October 2016, an earthquake...
75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE PARISH OF ST. DOMINIC De GUZMAN IN SANTA CRUZ, TENERIFE (SPAIN)
Carmelites of the Iberian Province celebrated the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the Parish of St. Dominic Guzman in Santa Cruz, Tenerife (the Canary Islands), on Sunday 21 November. Monsignor Bernardo Alvarez Alfonso presided ...
A SPACE FOR PRAYER INAUGURATED IN BENONI (SOUTH AFRICA)
Carmelite friars from the Karnataka-Goa Province have constructed a Prayer Garden in the parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Benoni, South Africa. The garden was blessed by Archbishop Buti Thagale of Johannesburg on the 21st of Nove...
MONSIGNOR CESAR ESSAYAN, LATIN APOSTOLIC VICAR IN LEBANON MEETS LEBANESE DISCALCED CARMELITE FRIARS FOR THE SYNOD
Saturday 20 November 2021 May this Synod be lived in the Spirit! We are forever needful of God’s renewing breath that frees us from all shutdowns, restores life to what was dead, tears apart chains and dispenses joy. It leads us tow...
NEWS FROM BELORUSSIA
The friars of our Belorussian Vicariate spent the 20 November, the feast day of St. Raphael Kalinowski, on a Spiritual Retreat at Miadziel. Monsignor Aleh Butkevich, President of the Belorussian Episcopal Conference and Bishop of the Diocese of ...
