May 9St. George Preca, Priest, Carmelite Secular OrderSt. George was born in Valletta, and lived for a time in Valletta near the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. As a child, and according to the customs of the times, George joined the Carmelite Family by being enrolled in the Scapular. As a young man he felt called to the priesthood. He was ordained priest on 22 December 1906.
During the early...
Fifty years. Amazing. Amazing. Amazing Amazing.
On Thursday 2nd May 2019 the Carmelite Sisters in Cospicua celebrated the Golden Jubilee of Religious Profession of Sister Maria Anna of St Gabriel.
Fr. Martin Borg OCD, the Chaplain, celebrated mass in the Choir of our Monastery.
A simple private celebration to celebrate this momentous event – fifty years of cloisted life.
Sister Maria...
Saint Angelus was one of the first Carmelites to come to Sicily from Mt. Carmel.
According to trustworthy sources, he was killed by unbelievers in Licata during the first half of the thirteenth century. Acclaimed as a martyr, his body was placed in a
church built on the site of his death. Only in 1632 were his relics transferred to the Carmelite Church.
Veneration of St. Angelus spread throughout...
From the community of Alba de Tormes, in the Iberian province (Spain), we received the sad news of the death of Jeannine Poitrey on December 31st last, in Biarritz (France).
Mrs. Poitrey, a Parisian by birth, devoted much of her intellectual life to the literary and linguistic study of the work of Saint Teresa of Jesus, as well as to the diffusion of her spirituality.
A great specialist in the Spanish...
God bless! Three new Ordinandi at Kenya’s mission! (Fr. Peter-Canisius Otieno, Fr. Harrison Waiganjo, and Fr. Isaac Namanda).
They were ordained on February 16th at Tangaza University College (which is just about five minutes walk away from our St. John of the Cross monastery in Nairobi.)
They were ordained by Bishop George Tambala, OCD of Malawi. (Bishop George himself is a former student...
Between the 10th and 14th of March last, the traditional Spirituality Week was held at the Teresianum Pontifical Faculty, which this year reached its 60th edition, with a notable influx of the public. The topic chosen for this year was: “The spirituality of friendship with God and with one another. I have called you friends” (Jn 15:15).
It was opened by a lecture given by Fr. General, Saverio...
Our brother, Fr. Patrizio Sciadini, or Abuna Patrick, as he is known in the Country of the Nile, has been re-elected for a second term as President of the religious in Egypt, who were gathered in an elective assembly at the end of last March.
Also elected were the Vice-President (Abuna Kamal, Franciscan) and the Secretary (Abuna Rubens, of the African missions). We wish our brother and all the religious...
On March 31st, during his apostolic journey to Morocco, Pope Francis met at the Cathedral of Rabat with priests, religious, consecrated nuns and the Ecumenical Council of the Churches.
Our Discalced Carmelite Sisters from the Tangier monastery were able to participate, with great joy.
In this encounter with the successor of Peter, feeling accompanied and loved by the Holy Father and confirmed...
April 23
She was born at Campi Bisenzio, Florence, where in 1874 she founded the Congregation of Carmelite Sisters of St. Teresa whom she also sent to Lebanon and the Holy Land. She lived joyfully, body and soul the mystery of the Cross in full conformity to the will of God and she was outstanding for her love for the Eucharist and her maternal care for children and for the poor. She died...
JMJTAs we begin Holy Week.....
Meditations of Edith Stein
The world is in flames. The conflagration can also reach our house. But high above all flames towers the cross. They cannot consume it. It is the path from earth to heaven.
It will lift one who embraces it in faith, love, and hope into the bosom of the Trinity.
The world is in flames. Are you impelled to put them out? Look at the cross....