Great elephants, little pygmies, precious diamonds and the love of the missionaries.
Sometime during the Creation – shall we say around the fifth or sixth day? – God was passing the intersection of the 2nd Parallel North and the 16th Meridian East. I know of course that at that time the global reference points had not yet been quite so closely defined. And the Good Lord certainly didn’t...
Id-Definitur Ġenerali bħalissa qiegħed Malta għaż-żjara fraterna li s-Superjuri tagħna jagħmlu dan is-servizz allanqas darba kull sitt snin
Id-Definitur huwa Patri Daniel Chowing, Amerikan. Hu Patri dħuli u għandu ħafna esperjenza specjalment fil-formazzjoni. http://www.ocdmonline.org/fr-daniel-chowning-iv-definitor/
Huwa beda ż-żjara tieghu billi qatta’ erba’ t’ijiem...
Carmelite
Maria Crocifissa Curcio was born in Ispica (Province of Ragusa) on January 30, 1877, and given the name Rosa. In 1890, she received permission to join the Carmelite Third Order and took the name Sr. Maria Crocifissa. Through her reading of the life of St. Teresa of Jesus, she understood the plan of God that she called to make Carmel flourish in her country as well as many others.
She...
Perhaps we do not realize the amount of Carmelite Saints ... Just have a look at these two brothers and a sister who found their sanctity in Carmel. All three have their feast days in June....
Blessed Hilarion (Hilary) Januszewski, Priest and Martyr
Hilary Januszewski was born on 11 June 1907 in Krajenki (Poland) and was given the name of Pawel. He received a Christian education from his parents,...
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....
