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Impromptu address of the Holy Father. Midday prayer in the Monastery of the Discalced Carmelites (Antananarivo. Saturday, 7 September 2019)
You will be given a copy of the text I prepared, so that you can read and ponder it quietly. But right now I would like to speak to you from the heart. The reading from the First Book of Kings (2:2b-3) was addressed to Joshua. It begins wit...
General Definitory
On the 2ndof September, the Ordinary meeting of the General Definitory began, chaired by Fr Saverio Cannistrà and in the presence of all the Definitors. This meeting takes place after the summer break in the northern hemisphere, which ...
News from the Order’s Information Secretariat
Coinciding with the start of the ordinary session of the General Definitory on the 2ndof September, the team in charge of the Communication of the Order, under the direction of Fr Agustí Borrell, Vicar General and directly responsible ...
Discalced Carmelite nuns at the Teresianum
The “Teresianum” Pontifical Faculty and Pontifical Institute of Spirituality in Rome offered a course to a group of Italian Discalced Carmelite nuns from the 25th to the 28th of June this year. The sisters ...
Documents of the 2009-2015 sexennium in French
Marchons ensemble ! La parole d’un chef de famille. [Let’s go together! The word of a head of a household]. Saverio Cannistrà, o.c.d. Documents of the 2009-2015 sexennium, collected and presented by the Carmel of Devel...
Interview with father Saverio Cannistrà on his nomination as a member of the congregation for the institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic life
Dear Father Saverio: We are delighted with the recent news of your nomination to the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. What does this mean for you? Did it come as a surprise? ...
CITeS: Commemorative Book
On February 14, 2009, the new headquarters of CITeS – University of Mysticism– was inaugurated in Avila, which since 1986 had carried out its activities in a part of the “La Santa” convent, located in the house where St Teresa of Jesus was...
Andrea Riccardi visits the Pescara monastery
The founder of the St Egidio Community recently paid a visit on the 28th of May to the Discalced Carmelite nuns’ community in Pescara, Italy. This well-known Community came into existence in Rome, precisely in famous Trastevere...
Information from the Order
The Order’s Secretariat of Information, following instructions from our Major Superiors, is preparing some changes that will gradually be released and will be launched throughout the 2019-2020 academic year. That is why, taking advantage ...
Topicality of St John of the Cross
In addition to the International Congress held at the Teresianum, which we reported this month in our news service, there are some events that highlight the pertinence of Saint John of the Cross and the interest in his works nowadays. In Mu...
Meeting of the General Councils
The General Council of the Carmelites and the Definitory of the Discalced Carmelites, at which presided their respective Fathers General, Fernando Millán, OCarm, and Saverio Cannistrà, OCD, met recently at the Provincial House of the OCarm friar...
Congress on Saint John of the Cross in the Teresianum
On the 9th and 10th of May, an International Congress on St John of the Cross was held at the Teresianum, with the title: “Memory and Hope in Saint John of the Cross”. The objective of the Congres...
News from the Discalced Carmelite nuns in Peru
The “Our Lady of Mt Carmel” Association of monasteries of Discalced Carmelite nuns of Peru met together for almost a week from the 20th to the 25th of May this present year. On the 20th,...
Improvements to the “Father Silverius” classroom of the Teresianum
In order to offer a better service to the students who attend our pontifical Teresianum Faculty, with help from the General Curia some works of improvement have been carried out in classroom 1, dedicated to Fr Silverius of Saint Teresa, that can e...
A new biography in Spanish on Saint Teresa of Jesus
Fr. Daniel de Pablo Maroto presents to readers a new biography of Saint Teresa, from the FONTE GROUP publishing house of spirituality (Iberian Province, Spain). It is a second, edited and augmented edition of what the author already published in 2...
