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Burundi: Consecration of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
A number of very important events for Carmel and the Church in Burundi took place on 20 July 2024. On this same day the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was consecrated; the Carmelite Parish of Mary, Mother of the Apostles, celebrated its G...
Brazil: Meeting of CICLA SOUTH Superiors
From 22 to 26 July a meeting of the Major Superiors of CICLA SOUTH was held in the Monastery of St. Teresa in Curitiba (Brazil). The following Circumscriptions were represented: the Province of Brazil South; the Vicariate of Uruguay-Bolivia-Pa...
Ivory Coast: 10th Assembly of Federation of St. Therese of the Child Jesus
From 22 June to 11 July 2024, the eleven Monasteries of the Carmelites of French-speaking Africa – (Burundi, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Brazzaville Congo, the Ivory Coast and Ruanda) held their 10th Assembly at th...
Meeting of OCDS Communities in Indonesia
The family of the OCDS in Indonesia counts already with fifteen communities present on seven different islands. Its members are committed to their life of prayer, fraternity and service in the Church and in the World. Several communities gathered ...
India: Psycho-Spiritual Integration Course for Cloistered Nuns
A Psycho-Spiritual course was organised by the Federation of Our Lady of Mount Carmel at Sadbhavana, Carmelite Provincialate of Karnataka Goa Province, Bengaluru, from 3-22 June 2024. Sixteen Nuns from nine Carmels and from the Raipur Carmel took ...
Viet Nam: news from the Carmelite nuns
The Federation of Our Lady of Mount Carmel held their General Assembly from the 5th – 11th May 2024, at the Bishop’s Residence at Xuan Loc under the presidency of Father Francis Nguyễn Quách Tiến OCD, the Religio...
Austria: Visit to the OCDS communities
The four OCDS communities in Austria located in, Graz, Jeutendorf, Linz and Vienna received the visit of the Provincial of Discalced Carmelites in Austria, Fr. Paul Saji, OCD and the General Delegate for the OCDS, Fr. Ramiro Casale, OCD. Each comm...
ITALY: 350th ANNIVERSARY OF PIACENZA MONASTERY
On the 24th May, with the launch of a book recounting our history, we brought to a close our year of celebration of the 350th anniversary of our presence in Piacenza. We had begun more than a year-long of thanksgiving festivi...
DigiCarmel: DIGITALIZATION OF OCD INFORMATION BULLETINS 1968-2024
The digitalization and online publication of the Order’s official bulletins has finally been completed. This is the result of a prolonged process of collecting and cataloguing of all the informative material produced in nearly 60 years. I...
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...
