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...
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...
