Il-Ġimgħa 14 ta’ Ġunju, Patri Elija ta’ Ġesu Msallab ġie ordnat presbiteru ġewwa il-Kattidral ta’ l-Assunta ġewwa l-belt Victoria, Għawdex.
Patri Elija huwa oriġarjament mill-Għarb.
Pratikament il-patrijiet kollha Tereżjani kienu preżenti għal din l-okkażjoni hekk sabiħa. Il-Knisja kienet mimlija b’ħafna li telgħu wkoll minn Malta.
E.T. Mons Isqof Mario Grech...
On the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, we present here an article written by Discalced Carmelite Father Kieran Kavanaugh, on the devotion of the brown Carmelite scapular.
Father Kavanaugh is the English translator of the writings of both St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross. He is a member of the Institute of Carmelite Studies and was the vice postulator for the canonization of St. Edith...
On May 10th, 2019 our Discalced Carmelite Fathers celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their parish ‘Saint John of the Cross’ at Ta’ Xbiex feting a musico-literrary soirée.
During this beautiful occasion they highlighted the main benefactor of their parish - the Baron Pietro Paolo Testaferrata Moroni Viani, who not only generously donated the land on which the Church and the convent...
Saints Zélie and Louis Martin
Like my father, my mother was very detached from earthly things. She was highly intelligent and had extraordinary energy: difficulties were nothing to her. Her spirit of faith was remarkable and helped her to endure life’s many hardships. When she lost her children, she knew immediately where they would be and overcame her immense grief. She wrote, “I...
Brown
Scapular: A Silent Devotion – From the Archives of Fr. Kieran
Kavanaugh, OCD
by Fr. Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD
May 16th was the feast day of Saint Simon Stock, a figure whose history is shrouded in mystery and legend. The late Fr. Kieran Kavanaugh helps us to sift through all the uncertainty to find the rich spiritual significance of Saint Simon Stock's reception of the scapular...
Il-Ġimgħa 7 ta’ Ġunju Fra Leli Aquilina se jagħmel il-professjoni semplici tiegħu fis-Santwarju ta’ Santa Tereżina, B’kara. Hekk huwa jwiegħed quddiem Alla u l-aħwa l-ġodda tiegħu li se jgħix il-ħajja Tereżjana bil-voti tal-faqar, kastita u ubbidjenza fi ħdan din il-familja.
Fra Leli hu armel u għandu żewġt itfal. Huwa se jkompli l-istudji tiegħu fl-Universita’ ta’ Malta....
May 25
Born in Florence in 1566, she had a religious upbringing and entered the monastery of the Carmelite nuns there. She led a hidden life of prayer and
self-denial, praying particularly for the renewal of the Church and encouraging the sisters in holiness. Her life was marked by many extraordinary graces. She died in 1607.
No, she was called ‘de pazzi’ not because she was crazy...
May 22St. Joachina de Vedruna de Mas, Mother of nine children and religious
Let us listen to her BEAUTIFUL words :
From the Letters of St. Joachina If only we were all on fire with love for God! If we were, we should preach love, proclaim love, and yet more love, until we had set the whole world on fire. We must have great desires: then God will give us whatever is best for us.
We must...
Wednesday May 8th saw the rebirth of the Secular Order in Cospicua. Brother Emmanuel Aquilina took the initiative to recall the former members of the said Secular Order. He launched anew the Secular Oredr that has been dormant for some years.
The Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites, officially Ordo Carmelitarum Discalceatorum Saecularis (OCDS), and formerly the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites...
Mother Luigia Cucciardi is now in the Carmel of Heaven!
Just one day short of Mother’s Day, she passed on to eternal life. She has spent sixty-one, yes 61 years in the Cloistered Carmel of Cospicua. An amazing life of hiddenness and joy.
She joined Carmel at the age of 24 and died when she was 85! Various times she led the community of Cospicua as prioress. Gifted with a bright mind and a tender...