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....
On Wednesday April 17 is the optional memorial of Bl. Baptist Spagnoli of Mantua, priest
Baptist was born on 17th April 1447 to a family of civil servants to the Dukes of Mantua. Heentered the Carmelites of the Congregation of Mantua 1 at Ferrara as a young man. While not a poet of genius, he was a superb Latin stylist, imitating Virgil. His eclogues (poems in a classical style on a pastoral...
April 18
OCD:
Optional Memorial
Barbe
Avrillot was born in Paris in 1566. At the age of sixteen she married
Pierre Acarie, by whom she had seven children. In spite of her household
duties and many hardships, she attained the heights of the mystical life.
Under the influence of St. Teresa's writings, and after mystical contact with the Saint herself, she spared no effort in introducing...
Here are some online opportunities to go deeper
into our Carmelite spirituality!
*Number One*
Now our Garden is at this address: http://blesslife.org/ourgarden/
*Number Two*
To see our favorite Carmelite: http://blesslife.org/ourgarden/images/YoungKarolWojtyla.jpg
What is St. John Paul II the Great’s affiliation with the Carmelites?
In a letter to Cardinal Ballestrero OCD dated...
Ktieb tassew interessanti li għadu kif ħareġ huwa l-ktieb ta’ Patri Wistin Vella OCD, Il-Ħabib Sieħeb ta’ Gesu’. Huwa ġabra ta’ meditazzjonijiet fuq l-istil tal-Imitazzjoni ta’ Kristu. L-awtur stess jgħid “huwa ktieb ta’ talb ta’ taħditiet qalb ma’ qalb ma’ l-Imgħallem.”
Il-bniedem, kull bniedem, jkollu jħabbat wiccu l-ħin kollu ma’ ħafna weġgħat u problemi...
Check this resource out
https://youtu.be/RRNPZAVomN4
by Br. John-Mary of Jesus Crucified, OCD
Whether you’ve been praying for many years or if you are just beginning, we all have one thing in common: the need for conversion. Lent is a season specifically set aside by the Church to focus on repentance and conversion. In this episode we explore what the Carmelite tradition has to teach...
Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross is co-patroness of Europe. Before entering Carmel and taking this name, Edith Stein already had a long life as a philosopher and lecturer. Born in Prussia in 1891, a Jew who became agnostic, she undertook a quest for truth through philosophy and the events of her life, until her discovery of Christ.
Baptized at the age of 31, she became a remarkable Catholic...
