Just before the Extra-ordinary Definitory in Goa India, the Discalced Carmelites in Europe organized a meeting for formators at the University of the Mystic, CITES in Avila.
There were 14 provinces of Discalced Carmelites that participated in this annual formative meeting. These provinces are distributed in 9 countries: Belgium, Croatia, Spain, France, Italy, Malta, Poland, Portugal, and Lebanon...
Lúcia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos, OCD , (March 28, 1907 – February 13, 2005), also known as Lúcia of Fátima and by her religious name Sister Maria Lúcia of Jesus and of the Immaculate Heart, was a Portuguese Carmelite nun and one of the three children, including her cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto who witnessed the Marian apparitions in Fatima in 1917.
Here is a prayer we have for her intercession.
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All our superiors just met in Goa, India. The occasion was the Extra-Ordinary Definitory, a plenary Council of Superior General, Definitors, Provincials, Commisars, Vicars, General Delegates and Provincial Delegates.
This was celebrated as a preparation for the General
Chapter to be held in 2021.
There are two definitories held in a sexennium, but this being, an extra-ordinary General Definitory,...
During the Extraordinary Definitory, our superiors found the time to to celebrate the Eucharist in the place where our first monastery was established in India. This monastery was built in 1622 by Fr Leander of the Annunciation and his first companions who had just arrived in Goa.
The decision to establish a presence of Teresian Carmelites in this far-away land was not accidental. At that time,...
To those not familiar with Carmelite spirituality, the wisdom of these saints may seem dark and forbidding. But all saints learn that the one and only path to complete freedom and joy comes in a total surrender of self to the will of God, so that we might become all He created us to be.
"Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done unto me according to your word." Our Lady, Queen of Mount Carmel...
The Translator of our Saints into English
Evey beginning has an end. Fr.
Kieran passed away just shy of his 91st birthday this past Saturday, the Feast
of the Presentation of the Lord. He died in Washington DC. He is most remembered as one-half of the duo of friars who
translated the works of St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Ávila into
English. He was a charming, witty priest. With a tremendous...
The church does not make saints — God does. The Church just recognises what is believed to be God’s divine will. There are four official rungs that an aspiring saint must climb before the Church acknowledges his or her sanctity.
1. Servant of God
The first esteemed title granted by the church in the canonization process is “Servant of God.” Someone must nominate a candidate for official...
“Silverio di Santa Teresa is the religious name of Julián Gómez Fernández, Discalced Carmelite born in a Escóbados de Arriba (Burgos) on March 8th, 1878 and died in Mazatlán (México) on March 11th 1954. He was a historian, editor of the works of the Saints in Carmel and Father General of the Order. One of his main contributions to Carmelite studies was his commentary to the works of Teresa...
ON SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS
This may be old ‘news’. But it is worth recording here the passing away of Father Federico Ruiz in the early morning of November 16. For these last years he was afflicted with Alzheimers.
Born in Cozuelos de Ojeda, a village in the Province of Palencia in Spain on December 24, 1933, Father Federico made his religious profession as a Discalced Carmelite on July...