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143/2026: Corrections to the Prior General's Schedule

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:40:00 GMT

<table border="0" cellspacing="3" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 600px;"> <tbody> <tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><img alt="CITOC News" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260907194045/8f5c7a94e3b83e9ae8d6a9ac8f80d032_citoc_header_600.png" style="clear: both; display: block; height: 315px; max-width: 100%; outline: currentcolor none medium; text-decoration: none; width: 600px;" /></td> </tr> <tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <td style="line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">   Correction to the Prior General’s Schedule for September In the CITOC online (141/2026) listing the schedule of the prior general for the month of September, there was an error. The meeting of Major Superiors of America to be held in São Paolo on September 19-23 has been rescheduled for October. Nor will there be a visitation of the Rio Province on September 23-27. The correct schedule is that Fr. Desiderio will be at the chapter of the Commissariat of Paranà which will take place September 21-25. +          +          +   Corrección al calendario del Prior General para septiembre En la publicación en línea del CITOC (141/2026), donde se detallaba el calendario del Prior General para el mes de septiembre, hubo un error. La reunión de los Superiores Mayores de América, que se iba a celebrar en São Paulo del 19 al 23 de septiembre, se ha pospuesto para octubre. Tampoco habrá una visita a la Provincia de Río del 23 al 27 de septiembre. El calendario correcto es que el P. Desiderio estará en el capítulo del Comisariado de Paraná, que se llevará a cabo del 21 al 25 de septiembre. +          +          +   Correzione al programma del Priore Generale per settembre Nell’elenco pubblicato sul sito del CITOC (141/2026) relativo al programma del Priore Generale per il mese di settembre, c’è stato un errore. L’incontro dei Superiori Maggiori d’America, che avrebbe dovuto tenersi a San Paolo dal 19 al 23 settembre, è stato rinviato a ottobre. Inoltre, non ci sarà la visita alla Provincia di Rio dal 23 al 27 settembre. Il programma corretto prevede che P. Desiderio partecipi al capitolo del Commissariato del Paraná, che si terrà dal 21 al 25 settembre. <p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align: center;">+          +          +   <a href="http://www.ocarm.org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; " target="_blank">www.ocarm.org</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ocarm_org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/ocarm_org</a>   </td> </tr> <tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"> </td> </tr> <tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://ocarm.org/en/contact-us"><img alt="Curia Generalizia dei Carmelitani" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260907194045/3233e4f55c783d45774c94ad6ceb5794_citoc_footer_600.png" style="clear: both; display: block; height: 252px; max-width: 100%; outline: currentcolor none medium; text-decoration: none; width: 600px;" /></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

142/2026: Chapter of the Neapolitan Province

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:58:00 GMT

<table border="0" cellspacing="3" height="1570" style="border-collapse:collapse;" width="616"><tbody><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><img alt="CITOC News" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260906055809/8f5c7a94e3b83e9ae8d6a9ac8f80d032_citoc_header_600.png" style="clear: both; display: block; height: 315px; max-width: 100%; outline: currentcolor none medium; text-decoration: none; width: 600px;" /></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><img alt="" height="391" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260906055809/c7d074d1e2b862181b0537ff3778d57a_NeapolitanProvince.Leadership.2026.png" width="580" />  Provincial Chapter of the Neapolitan Province Held From August 31 Until September 3, 2026<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">The Prior General, Desiderio García Martínez, O. Carm., in his homily at the opening Eucharist, reminded the participants that our faith is not based on human intelligence, but on the wisdom of God. (<em style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">la nostra fede non si fonda sull'intelligenza umana, ma sulla sapienza di Dio<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">) He said, “We must certainly be intelligent witnesses of the Gospel, but Jesus reminds us that intelligence, according to human logic, alone is not enough.” (<em style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Dobbiamo certamente essere testimoni intelligenti del Vangelo, ma Gesù ci ricorda che l'intelligenza secondo la logica umana, da sola, non basta.<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">)<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">While acknowledging the obvious challenges that the province faces, the outgoing prior provincial, Cosimo Pagliara,  O. Carm., said that the life of the province (founded in 1379) is rich in having a great history and still has fertile resources for the future. (<em style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">ricca di una grande storia (1379) e ancora ha feconde risorse per il futuro<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">.)  The originality of living the Carmelite charism among the people of Southern Italy must never be lacking.<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">The theme of the chapter was <em style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">I Have Plans of Peace for You and Not of Misfortune for a Future Full of Hope<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;"> (cf. Jeremiah 29:11) – Young People and Interculturality: A Challenge for Carmel.” (<em style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Ho per voi progetti di pace e non di sventura per un futuro pieno di speranza (cfr. Geremia 29,11) Giovani e interculturalità: una sfida per il Carmelo<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">.)<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Don Riccardo Pincerato (head of Italy’s National Service for Youth Ministry) spent an afternoon in dialogue with the chapter. He reminded the participants that too often young people are seen as the objects of our ministry and not as the subjects themselves who say something to us about God. Instead of trying to answer the question, “What must I do for the young?” instead each person needs to answer the question, “Who am I for the young?” Our youth ministry is about ensuring that young people become adult Christians (and not about creating projects of events). The challenge is to create communities that welcome young people.<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Dominic Praveen Lawrence, O. Carm., (who until his election as Commissary General in India had been the prior and rector of the Shrine of Maria Santissima di Campiglione, Caivano, Naples) gave a presentation to the chapter on Internationality and Interculturality. Interculturality does not happen through great meetings or events but through the actions and routines of daily life. He observed that not only was he welcomed but he was valued and given co-responsibility. Interculturality is not just a sociological action but also places Christ at the center which is especially important for Carmelites being brothers called by the same Lord.<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Bency Varghese, O. Carm., also gave a presentation to the chapter on Interculturality. He observed how welcomed he was into the province. Interculturality is now an essential part of our religious life which is not just about living together but living in communion. He noted that just because people eat, work and pray together does not mean that they have authentic interculturality. There is always the risk of ethno-centrism: thinking of one’s own culture as being the right culture and using it to judge other cultures. Communion and true interculturality does not come about by hosting people in a province or in a community.<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">During the chapter, the participants made a visit to the Basilica of St Nicholas in Bari which contains the relics of Saint Nicholas. The Dominicans have had responsibility as custodians of this important shrine for over 70 years. Emmanuel Albano, OP, spent time with the participants explaining the importance of the shrine especially as a center of ecumenism. It is a place which has succeeded in bringing all Christians together. A very special moment was our moment of prayer together at the relics, led by the prior general, Desiderio García Martínez, O. Carm.<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">During the chapter, the following were elected to be the government of the province for the next three years:<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">.     .      .<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Celebran el Capítolo Provincial de Nápoles el 31 de agosto al 3 de septiembre de 2026<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">El Prior General, Desiderio García Martínez, O. Carm., en su homilía durante la Eucaristía de apertura, les recordó a los participantes que nuestra fe no se basa en la inteligencia humana, sino en la sabiduría de Dios. (la nostra fede non si fonda sull'intelligenza umana, ma sulla sapienza di Dio) Dijo: «Claro que tenemos que ser testigos inteligentes del Evangelio, pero Jesús nos recuerda que la inteligencia, según la lógica humana, por sí sola no basta». (Dobbiamo certamente essere testimoni intelligenti del Vangelo, ma Gesù ci ricorda che l'intelligenza secondo la logica umana, da sola, non basta.)<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Aunque reconoció los evidentes desafíos que enfrenta la provincia, el prior provincial saliente, Cosimo Pagliara, O. Carm., dijo que la vida de la provincia (fundada en 1379) es rica por tener una gran historia y aún cuenta con recursos fértiles para el futuro. (rica de una gran historia (1379) y aún cuenta con recursos fértiles para el futuro.) La originalidad de vivir el carisma carmelita entre la gente del sur de Italia nunca debe faltar. <p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">El tema del capítulo fue «Tengo planes de paz para ustedes y no de desgracia para un futuro lleno de esperanza» (cf. Jeremías 29,11) – «Los jóvenes y la interculturalidad: un reto para el Carmelo». (Tengo para ustedes planes de paz y no de desgracia para un futuro lleno de esperanza (cf. Jeremías 29,11) Jóvenes e interculturalidad: un reto para el Carmelo.)<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Don Riccardo Pincerato (responsable del Servicio Nacional de Pastoral Juvenil de Italia) pasó una tarde dialogando con el capítulo. Les recordó a los participantes que, con demasiada frecuencia, se ve a los jóvenes como objetos de nuestra pastoral y no como sujetos que tienen algo que decirnos sobre Dios. En lugar de intentar responder a la pregunta: «¿Qué debo hacer por los jóvenes?», cada uno debe responder a la pregunta: «¿Quién soy yo para los jóvenes?». Nuestra pastoral juvenil consiste en asegurarnos de que los jóvenes se conviertan en cristianos adultos (y no en crear proyectos o eventos). El reto es crear comunidades que acojan a los jóvenes. <p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Dominic Praveen Lawrence, O. Carm., (quien hasta su elección como Comisario General en la India había sido prior y rector del Santuario de María Santísima de Campiglione, en Caivano, Nápoles) dio una presentación ante el capítulo sobre internacionalidad e interculturalidad. La interculturalidad no surge de grandes reuniones o eventos, sino de las acciones y rutinas de la vida cotidiana. Comentó que no solo lo recibieron bien, sino que lo valoraron y le dieron corresponsabilidad. La interculturalidad no es solo una cuestión sociológica, sino que también pone a Cristo en el centro, lo cual es especialmente importante para los carmelitas, ya que somos hermanos llamados por el mismo Señor.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Bency Varghese, O. Carm., también dio una presentación ante el capítulo sobre la interculturalidad. Comentó lo bien que lo recibieron en la provincia. La interculturalidad es ahora una parte esencial de nuestra vida religiosa, que no se trata solo de vivir juntos, sino de vivir en comunión. Señaló que el hecho de que la gente coma, trabaje y rece junta no significa que haya una auténtica interculturalidad. Siempre existe el riesgo del etnocentrismo: pensar que tu propia cultura es la correcta y usarla para juzgar a otras culturas. La comunión y la verdadera interculturalidad no se logran simplemente acogiendo a personas en una provincia o en una comunidad. <p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Durante el capítulo, los participantes visitaron la Basílica de San Nicolás en Bari, donde se guardan las reliquias de San Nicolás.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Los dominicos han sido los custodios de este importante santuario desde hace más de 70 años. Emmanuel Albano, OP, pasó un rato con los participantes explicándoles la importancia del santuario, especialmente como centro de ecumenismo. Es un lugar que ha logrado unir a todos los cristianos. Un momento muy especial fue cuando rezamos juntos ante las reliquias, guiados por el prior general, Desiderio García Martínez, O. Carm.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Durante el capítulo, se eligió al siguiente gobierno de la provincia para los próximos tres años:<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">.     .      .<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> <p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Il Capitolo Provinciale della Provincia Napoletana si è tenuto dal 31 agosto al 3 settembre 2026<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Il Priore Generale, Desiderio García Martínez, O. Carm., nella sua omelia durante la Messa di apertura, ha ricordato ai partecipanti che la nostra fede non si fonda sull'intelligenza umana, ma sulla sapienza di Dio. Ha detto: “Dobbiamo certamente essere testimoni intelligenti del Vangelo, ma Gesù ci ricorda che l'intelligenza secondo la logica umana, da sola, non basta.”<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Pur riconoscendo le evidenti sfide che la provincia deve affrontare, il priore provinciale uscente, Cosimo Pagliara, O. Carm., ha detto che la vita della provincia (fondata nel 1379) è ricca di una grande storia e ha ancora risorse feconde per il futuro (ricca di una grande storia (1379) e ancora ha risorse feconde per il futuro). L’originalità nel vivere il carisma carmelitano tra la gente del Sud Italia non deve mai mancare. <p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Il tema del capitolo era «Ho per voi progetti di pace e non di sventura per un futuro pieno di speranza (cfr. Geremia 29,11) Giovani e interculturalità: una sfida per il Carmelo.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Don Riccardo Pincerato (responsabile del Servizio Nazionale per la Pastorale Giovanile in Italia) ha trascorso un pomeriggio in dialogo con il capitolo.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Ha ricordato ai partecipanti che troppo spesso i giovani sono visti come oggetti della nostra pastorale e non come soggetti che ci dicono qualcosa su Dio. Invece di cercare di rispondere alla domanda: «Cosa devo fare per i giovani?», ognuno deve rispondere alla domanda: «Chi sono io per i giovani?». La nostra pastorale giovanile consiste nel garantire che i giovani diventino cristiani adulti (e non nel creare progetti o eventi). <p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">La sfida è creare comunità che accolgano i giovani. <p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Dominic Praveen Lawrence, O. Carm., (che fino alla sua elezione a Commissario Generale in India era stato priore e rettore del Santuario di Maria Santissima di Campiglione, a Caivano, Napoli) ha tenuto una presentazione al capitolo sull’internazionalità e l’interculturalità.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">L’interculturalità non nasce da grandi incontri o eventi, ma dalle azioni e dalle routine della vita quotidiana. Ha osservato che non solo è stato accolto, ma anche apprezzato e gli è stata affidata una corresponsabilità. L’interculturalità non è solo un’azione sociologica, ma pone Cristo al centro, cosa particolarmente importante per noi carmelitani, che siamo fratelli chiamati dallo stesso Signore.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Anche Bency Varghese, O. Carm., ha tenuto una presentazione al capitolo sul tema dell’interculturalità. Ha raccontato di quanto si sia sentito ben accolto nella provincia. L’interculturalità è ormai una parte essenziale della nostra vita religiosa, che non significa solo vivere insieme, ma vivere in comunione. Ha sottolineato che il semplice fatto di mangiare, lavorare e pregare insieme non significa che ci sia un’autentica interculturalità. C’è sempre il rischio dell’etnocentrismo: pensare che la propria cultura sia quella giusta e usarla per giudicare le altre culture. La comunione e la vera interculturalità non nascono semplicemente ospitando persone in una provincia o in una comunità. <p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Durante il capitolo, i partecipanti hanno visitato la Basilica di San Nicola a Bari, che custodisce le reliquie di San Nicola. I Domenicani sono i custodi di questo importante santuario da oltre 70 anni. Emmanuel Albano, OP, ha trascorso del tempo con i partecipanti spiegando l’importanza del santuario, soprattutto come centro di ecumenismo. È un luogo che è riuscito a riunire tutti i cristiani. Un momento davvero speciale è stato il nostro momento di preghiera insieme davanti alle reliquie, guidato dal priore generale, Desiderio García Martínez, O. Carm.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Durante il capitolo, sono stati eletti i seguenti membri del governo della provincia per i prossimi tre anni:  <p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">+         +        +  <p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Prior Provincial | Prior Provincial | Priore Provinciale <span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Cosimo Pagliara, O. Carm. 1st Councilor | 1er Consejero | 1o Consigliere <span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Nicola Barbarello, O. Carm. 2nd Councilor | 2do Consejero | 2o Consigliere <span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Milosz Mazewski, O. Carm. 3rd Councilor | 3er Consejero | 3o Consigliere <span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Bency Varghese, O. Carm. 4th Councilor | 4to Consejero | 4o Consigliere <span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Aureliano Pacciolla, O. 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141/2026: The Prior General's Schedule for September 2026

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:29:00 GMT

<table border="0" cellspacing="3" height="1823" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" width="602"><tbody><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><h4><img alt="CITOC News" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260904192921/8f5c7a94e3b83e9ae8d6a9ac8f80d032_citoc_header_600.png" style="clear: both; display: block; height: 315px; max-width: 100%; outline: currentcolor none medium; text-decoration: none; width: 600px;" /></h4></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><img alt="" height="389" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260904192921/871f3746ae5e306a7449e82766ded836.Martinez.Desiderio.Chapel.MadonnaChild.WhiteCloak.590px%5B570950%5D.png" width="580" /> <table border="0" cellspacing="3" height="848" style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" width="600"><tbody><tr style="padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td> </td><td style="line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">Prior General's Schedule for September 2026<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Fr. Desiderio García Martínez, O. Carm., the prior general, has the following schedule planned for the month of September 2026:<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 40px;">August 31-September 3: Triennial Chapter of the Neapolitan Province  September 7-11: Retreat-Planning -- General Curia -- Nocera Umbra,                              (Italy) September 19-23: Meeting of the Major Superiors of America -- São Paolo,                               Brazil September 23-27: Visit to the Province of Rio -- Brazil<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">+           +           +<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"> <p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Agenda del Prior General para septiembre de 2026<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">El P. Desiderio García Martínez, O. Carm., Prior General, tiene prevista la siguiente agenda para septiembre de 2026:<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 40px;">Del 31 de agosto al 3 de septiembre: Capítulo Provincial de la Provincia                    Napolitana (Italia) Del 7 al 11 de septiembre: Retiro-programación, Curia General, Nocera                    Umbra (Italia)  Del 19 al 23 de septiembre: Reunión de los Superiores Mayores de América, en                    Sao Paolo (Brasil). Del 23 al 27 de septiembre: Visita a la Provincia Fluminensis (Brasil).<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">+           +           +<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">Programma del Priore Generale di settembre 2026<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Padre Desiderio García Martínez, O. Carm., priore generale, ha in programma il seguente calendario per settembre 2026:<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 40px;">31 agosto-3 settembre 2026: Capitolo provinciale della Provincia                         Napolitana (Italia) 7-11 settembre 2026: Ritiro-Pianificazione -- Curia Generale, Nocera                         Umbra (Italia) 19-23 settembre 2026: Riunione dei Superiori Maggiori d’America, a San                          Paolo (Brasile) 23-27 settembre 2026: Visita alla Provincia Fluminense (Brasile)<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; text-align: center;">+           +           +</td></tr></tbody></table>   <a href="http://www.ocarm.org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; " target="_blank">www.ocarm.org</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ocarm_org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/ocarm_org</a></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"> </td></tr><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"> </td></tr></tbody></table>

140/2026: Celebrating at Home (23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time)

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 05:46:00 GMT

<table border="0" cellspacing="3" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><h4><img alt="CITOC News" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260903054611/8f5c7a94e3b83e9ae8d6a9ac8f80d032_citoc_header_600.png" style="clear: both; display: block; height: 315px; max-width: 100%; outline: currentcolor none medium; text-decoration: none; width: 600px;" /></h4></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="color:#0a0a0a;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.3;margin-bottom:10px;margin:0;padding:0;text-align:left;"><img alt="" height="386" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260903054611/e6f62806a0a483b860447059fdeff60d_CAH.23.2026.png" width="580" />  Celebrating at Home: A Family Formed By Forgiveness 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time | Mt 18: 15-20<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Chapter 18 of St Matthew’s Gospel is often referred to as the Sermon on the Church. It contains the teaching of Jesus about the life of the Christian community.<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Today’s reading details a procedure for dealing with differences and disputes. It follows the Parable of the Lost Sheep which is concerned with seeking out and bringing back the one who gets lost.<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">In the same way, resolving disputes is not about being right and punishing an offender, but about conversion and reconciliation. We share a common responsibility for the lives and faith of one another and for our community as a whole. Our presence, example and prayer encourage and confirm the faith and life of Jesus among us.<ul style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><li><a href="https://ocarm.org/en/celebrating-at-home/2626-cah-23rd-sunday-in-ordinary-time-year-a-1" style="color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Celebrating At Home - 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time [PDF]</a><li><a href="https://ocarm.org/en/celebrating-at-home/2625-cah-23rd-sunday-in-ordinary-time-year-a" style="color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Celebrating At Home - 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time [ePub]</a></ul>+         +         + Celebrando en Casa: Una familia formada en el perdón XXIII Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario | Mt 18, 15-20<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">El capítulo 18 del Evangelio de San Mateo es conocido, a menudo, como el Sermón acerca de la Iglesia. Contiene la enseñanza de Jesús sobre la vida de la comunidad cristiana.<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">La lectura de hoy detalla, nos explica la forma de cómo se puede tratar las diferencias y las disputas. Le precede la Parábola de la oveja perdida, cuyo contenido es la preocupación por buscar y traer de vuelta a la que se pierde.<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">De la misma manera, resolver las disputas no se trata de tener razón y castigar al ofensor, sino de conversión y reconciliación. <span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Compartimos una responsabilidad común por la vida y la fe de los otros y por nuestra comunidad en su totalidad. Nuestra presencia, ejemplo y oración, animan y confirman la fe y la vida de Jesús en medio de nosotros.<ul style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><li><a href="https://ocarm.org/es/celebrating-at-home/2628-celebrando-en-familia-23-domingo-del-tiempo-ordinario-a-carmelitas" style="color: rgb(95, 197, 226); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Celebrando en Familia - XXIII Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario</a></ul>+         +         + Celebrando in Casa: Una famiglia formata dal perdono XXIII Domenica del Tempo Ordinario | Mt 18: 15-20<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Il capitolo 18 del Vangelo di Matteo viene spesso presentato come il Discorso sulla Chiesa. Esso contiene l'insegnamento di Gesù sulla vita della comunità cristiana.<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">La lettura di oggi descrive in dettaglio una procedura per trattare le differenze e le controversie. Questo testo viene dopo la parabola della pecorella smarrita che parla proprio del cercare e riportare indietro colui che si perde.<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Allo stesso modo, risolvere le controversie non significa avere ragione e punire il colpevole, ma significa andare verso la conversione e la riconciliazione. <span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Condividiamo una responsabilità comune della vita e della fede degli altri e della nostra comunità nel suo insieme. La nostra presenza, l'esempio e la preghiera incoraggiano e confermano la fede e la vita di Gesù<br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">in mezzo a noi.<ul style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><li><a href="https://ocarm.org/it/celebrating-at-home/2629-celebrando-in-casa-23-domenica-del-tempo-ordinario-a-carmelitani" style="color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Celebrando in Casa - XXIII Domenica del Tempo Ordinario</a></ul>+         +         + Celebrando em Familia: Uma família formada no perdão XXIII Domingo do Tempo Comum | Mt 18: 15-20O capítulo 18 do Evangelho de Mateus é muitas vezes conhecido como o Sermão de da Igreja. Contém o ensinamento de Jesus sobre a vida da comunidade cristã.A leitura de hoje detalha e explica como as diferenças podem ser tratadas. Disputas. É precedida pela Parábola da Ovelha Perdida, cujo conteúdo é a preocupação com o Procurar e trazer de volta aquele que está perdido.Da mesma forma, resolver litígios não é ter razão e punir o infrator, mas de conversão e reconciliação. Compartilhamos uma responsabilidade comum pela vida e fé dos outros e por nossa comunidade como um todo. Nossa presença, exemplo e oração encorajam e confirmam a fé e a vida de Jesus no meio de nós.<ul style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><li><a href="https://ocarm.org/it/celebrating-at-home/2627-celebrando-em-familia-23-domingo-do-tempo-comum-a-carmelitas-portugues" style="color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Celebrando em família - XXIII Domingo do Tempo Comum</a></ul>+         +         + <p style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0; text-align: left;font-size: 12px;font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ocarm.org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; " target="_blank">www.ocarm.org</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ocarm_org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/ocarm_org</a> </td></tr><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"> </td></tr><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><a data-widget="image" href="https://ocarm.org/en/contact-us"><img alt="Curia Generalizia dei Carmelitani" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260903054611/3233e4f55c783d45774c94ad6ceb5794_citoc_footer_600.png" style="clear: both; display: block; height: 252px; max-width: 100%; outline: currentcolor none medium; text-decoration: none; width: 600px;" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table>

139/2026: VITAM COELO REDDIDERUNT (September 1, 2026)

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:01:00 GMT

138/2026: General Chapter of the Hermanas Carmelitas del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús (HCSCJ)

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:46:00 GMT

<table border="0" bordercolor="#ccc" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" height="3036" style="border-collapse:collapse;" width="600"><tbody><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><img alt="CITOC News" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260902184605/8f5c7a94e3b83e9ae8d6a9ac8f80d032_citoc_header_600.png" style="clear: both; display: block; height: 315px; max-width: 100%; outline: currentcolor none medium; text-decoration: none; width: 600px;" /></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0; text-align: left;font-size: 12px;font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><img alt="" height="386" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260902184605/4ba73015467402610187023606c5d720_HCSCJ.GenCouncil.2026.png" width="580" /> The XXIst Ordinary General Chapter of the Hermanas Carmelitas del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús was held in Málaga<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">The 21st Ordinary General Chapter of the Hermanas Carmelitas del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús began on August 2 and concluded on August 22, 2026. <p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">The Chapter took place at their Motherhouse / Madre Asunción School in El Limonar (Málaga) under the theme of the Chapter Year: Anchored in the Heart of Jesus Christ, Forgers of Hope. <p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">During these three weeks, representatives from communities in various countries evaluated the progress of the Congregation and discerning the organizational steps for the coming years.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">The website of the congregation is: hermanascarmelitasscj.com<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">The Chapter Assembly elected the Superior General and her Council, who will guide the life and mission of the Congregation over the next four years.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">The General Council is composed as follows:<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; padding-left: 30px;">Sr. Ma Teresa Delgado Aguado Superior General Sr. Lus Marina Materano Perozo Vicar General Sr. Lucía María Frois Colaco Delegate Councilor for the Africa Zone Sr. Mercedes Espinal de Jesús Delegate Councilor for the Caribbean Zone Sr. María José Medina Alguacil Delegate Councilor for the Iberian Zone Sr. Ma Dolores Calvo López General Treasurer+      +      + <p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">El XXI Capítulo General Ordinario de las Hermanas Carmelitas del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús se llevó a cabo en Málaga<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">El XXI Capítulo General Ordinario de las Hermanas Carmelitas del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús tuvo lugar del 2 al 22 de agosto de 2026. <p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">El Capítulo se desarrolló en su Casa Madre / Colegio Madre Asunción en El Limonar (Málaga) bajo el lema del año capitular: Ancladas en el corazón de Jesucristo, forjadoras de esperanza.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Durante estas tres semanas, las representantes de las comunidades de los diversos países evaluaron la marcha de la Congregación y discernieron los pasos organizativos para los próximos años.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">La página web de la Congregación es: hermanascarmelitasscj.com<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">La Asamblea Capitular eligió a la Superiora General y a su Consejo, quienes animarán la vida y la misión de la Congregación durante los próximos cuatros años.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">El Consejo General quedó constituido de la siguiente manera:<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;">H. Ma Teresa Delgado Aguado Superiora General H. Lus Marina Materano Perozo Vicaria General H. Lus Marina Materano Perozo Vicaria General H. Lucía María Frois Colaco Consejera delegada para la Zona África H. Mercedes Espinal de Jesús Consejera delegada para la Zona del Caribe H. María José Medina Alguacil Consejera delegado para la Zona Ibérica H. Ma Dolores Calvo López Consejera Ecónoma General+        +        + <p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Il XXI Capitolo Generale Ordinario delle Suore Carmelitane del Sacro Cuore di Gesù si è tenuto a Malaga<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Il XXI Capitolo Generale Ordinario delle Suore Carmelitane del Sacro Cuore di Gesù si è tenuto dal 2 al 22 agosto 2026.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Il Capitolo si è svolto nella Casa Madre / Collegio Madre Asunción a El Limonar (Malaga) all’insegna del motto dell’anno capitolare: Ancorate al cuore di Gesù Cristo, artefici di speranza. <p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Durante queste tre settimane, le rappresentanti delle comunità dei vari paesi hanno valutato l’andamento della Congregazione e hanno definito le linee guida organizzative per i prossimi anni.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Il sito web dell'Istituto è: hermanascarmelitasscj.com<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">L’Assemblea Capitolare ha eletto la Superiora Generale e il suo Consiglio, che animeranno la vita e la missione della Congregazione nei prossimi quattro anni.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Il Consiglio Generale è così composto:<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; padding-left: 30px; margin-left: 80px;">Suor Ma Teresa Delgado Aguado Superiora Generale Suor Lus Marina Materano Perozo Vicaria Generale Suor Lucía María Frois Colaco Consigliera delegata per la Zona Africa Suor Mercedes Espinal de Jesús Consigliera delegata per la Zona Caraibi Suor María José Medina Alguacil Consigliera delegata per la Zona Iberica Suor Ma Dolores Calvo López Consigliera Economa Generale +          +          +  <p style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0; text-align: left;font-size: 12px;font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ocarm.org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; " target="_blank">www.ocarm.org</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ocarm_org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/ocarm_org</a> </td></tr><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"> </td></tr><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://ocarm.org/en/contact-us"><img alt="Curia Generalizia dei Carmelitani" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260902184605/3233e4f55c783d45774c94ad6ceb5794_citoc_footer_600.png" style="clear: both; display: block; height: 252px; max-width: 100%; outline: currentcolor none medium; text-decoration: none; width: 600px;" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table>

137/2026: CITOC Update (1/IX/2026)

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:22:00 GMT

<table height="1309" width="600"><tbody><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"> <img alt="CITOC News" data-widget="image" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260901182215/8f5c7a94e3b83e9ae8d6a9ac8f80d032_citoc_header_600.png" style="clear: both; display: block; height: 315px; max-width: 100%; outline: currentcolor none medium; text-decoration: none; width: 600px;" /> <p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><img alt="" height="473" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260901182215/ed5d32547488f4042adf9c282a78c6fd_Rule.800Years.Logo.English.29.jpg" width="450" />Letter from the Prior General and Resources for the 800th Anniversary of the Carmelite Formula Vitae<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Dear sisters and brothers in Carmel,<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">This year we are celebrating 800 years of papal recognition of the Carmelite Formula Vitae. This was a key moment in our early history and is an important anniversary to celebrate.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Celebrating a Vital Moment<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Both General Councils considered the importance of this year for the Carmelite Family at our joint meeting in March 2026 and wish to celebrate it in various ways. Both General Councils are planning a number of initiatives in the coming months.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Indeed, we believe that it would be fruitful for the entire Carmelite Family to reflect once again on our Carmelite Rule and see it as a living text for today. Earlier this year, the General Council commissioned Míceál O’Neill OCarm to compile a series of five moments of prayer and reflection for this anniversary. (For convenience, we asked that he would use the text of the Rule as it was finally modified as the basis for these reflections.)<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">As we enter the final months of this anniversary year, each community of friars, nuns, Third Order and other groups in the Order is invited to take these reflections and use them over several community meetings. You may find additional ways within your local contexts to celebrate this anniversary.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Understanding the Context<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">It is important to understand the context of what happened 800 years ago. At some point in time, the hermit-brothers living on Mount Carmel decided to undergo a more formal organisation. They asked St Albert of Jerusalem to set down their way of life along the lines they were already living. We know that sometime between his arrival in the Holy Land in 1206 and his murder in 1214, Albert wrote the Formula Vitae for them.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Yet, an unforeseen problem arose. The Fourth Lateran Council in 1215, wishing to limit further diversification of religious life, obliged new orders to choose one of the already approved rules. This led towards a general amalgamation of religious orders. Thus, using the legislation of the Fourth Lateran Council as an excuse, Carmelites were sometimes refused permission to preach in public venues.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Even so, the Carmelites defended their position with the fact that their Formula Vitae came before the prohibition of 1215.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Pope Honorius III (Ut vivendi normam)<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Subsequently, the hermits of Mount Carmel made contact with the Holy See in order to secure their legal standing. On January 30, 1226, Pope Honorius III’s Ut vivendi normam, addressed to the “Prior and hermit-brothers of Mount Carmel,” formally accepted the Carmelites’ claim to have received their Formula of Life before the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. This document recommended Albert’s Formula Vitae granting an indulgence to those who accepted that way of life as obligatory.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Ut vivendi normam (1226) could be considered an acknowledgement or an implicit approbation (but not a “confirmation” in the proper sense) of the Formula of Life. Although it did not formally recognise the Carmelites as religious, in the proper sense of that term, Ut vivendi implied that their regular observance of the norm of life given by Albert gave them a canonical status different from that of ordinary laymen. Had the Carmelites been formally recognised as Religious at this point, they would have been obliged to accept “one of the rules approved” by the Fourth Lateran Council.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Building the Carmelite Family<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Over the subsequent centuries, Carmelites have spread throughout the world. There are now two branches of Carmelites: The Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (OCarm) and the Order of the Discalced Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (OCD), fruit of the St Teresa of Avila Reform. Together these two branches are a ‘family of families’ made up of several thousand Carmelite friars, nuns, members of the Third Order, affiliated congregations of sisters and brothers, and very many people who feel a spiritual bond with Carmelite Order – often most especially through the wearing of the Scapular.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Every member of this family owes their origin as Carmelites to the Formula Vitae written by St Albert of Jerusalem which was first given papal recognition 800 years ago by Pope Honorius III in Ut vivendi normam. It was an important milestone of the journey of Carmel: a journey which continues today.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">A Key Moment<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14x; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">While it did not completely and permanently resolve all the issues that Carmelites faced – and the text was modified on a small number of subsequent occasions – Pope Honorius III’s Ut vivendi normam in 1226 was the first recognition by the pope of the group of Carmelite hermits. Pope Innocent IV gave final approval to the Carmelite Rule in 1247.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">This would be considered a key moment even without the problems that the hermit-brothers were facing through the decisions of the Fourth Lateran Council. It takes on an even greater significance because of that initial struggle.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">We invite you to celebrate this important anniversary and to see the Rule as living text for today. In Carmel,<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Desiderio García Martínez, O. Carm. Prior General<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;">Additional Resources:<ul><li style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;"><a class="doclink-insert docman_track_download k-ui-namespace" data-id="2614" data-processed="data-processed" data-title="EN 800 years Letter with 5 Reflections on the Rule" href="https://ocarm.org/en/general-council/2614-en-800-years-letter-with-5-reflections-on-the-rule" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="application/pdf">Read or download the Letter from the Prior General (416 KB)</a><li style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;"><a class="doclink-insert docman_track_download k-ui-namespace" data-id="2613" data-processed="data-processed" data-title="EN 800 Years Formula Vitae Carmelites" href="https://ocarm.org/en/general-council/2613-en-800-years-formula-vitae-carmelites" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="application/pdf">Read or download the Letter from the Formula Vitae - Five Moments of Prayer and Reflection (644 KB)</a><li style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;"><a class="doclink-insert docman_track_download k-ui-namespace" data-id="2615" data-processed="data-processed" data-title="EN Logo for the celebration" href="https://ocarm.org/en/general-council/2615-en-logo-for-the-celebration" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="image/png">Download the Logo for the celebration (435 KB)</a><li style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;"><a class="doclink-insert docman_track_download k-ui-namespace" data-id="2621" data-processed="data-processed" data-title="ID Surat 800 tahun Pengakuan Paus" href="https://ocarm.org/en/general-council/2621-id-surat-800-tahun-pengakuan-paus" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="application/pdf">ID - Surat - 800 tahun Pengakuan Paus (469 KB)</a><li style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;"><a class="doclink-insert docman_track_download k-ui-namespace" data-id="2619" data-processed="data-processed" data-title="ID 800 tahun Carmelite Formula Vitae INA" href="https://ocarm.org/en/general-council/2619-id-800-tahun-carmelite-formula-vitae-ina" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="application/pdf">ID - 800 tahun Carmelite Formula Vitae_INA (642 KB)</a><li style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;"><a class="doclink-insert docman_track_download k-ui-namespace" data-id="2620" data-processed="data-processed" data-title="ID Logo untuk perayaan tersebut" href="https://ocarm.org/en/general-council/2620-id-logo-untuk-perayaan-tersebut" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="image/png">Logo untuk perayaan tersebut(437 KB)</a></ul><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;"><a class="doclink-insert docman_track_download k-ui-namespace" data-id="2620" data-processed="data-processed" data-title="ID Logo untuk perayaan tersebut" href="https://ocarm.org/en/general-council/2620-id-logo-untuk-perayaan-tersebut" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="image/png"><span class="k-visually-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: absolute; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); height: 1px; width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; float: none;">ima</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">+           +           +<img alt="" height="141" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260901182215/37cea0b86a7362e2c2c7456149629550_OnePage.Masthead.Eng.450px.png" width="450" />World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation and the Start of the Season of Creation on September 1September 1st is World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, the start of the Season of Creation. This special time concludes on October 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of ecology. This period is our opportunity to focus on praying, acting, and advocating for the environment. The theme for 2026 is Living Water referencing the passage in Ezekial 47:9, 12. The image of living water flowing from God’s sanctuary reveals divine healing that renews land, water, biodiversity, and human responsibility towards the whole of creation.To assist in understanding the season, a 43-page Celebration Guide for 2026 is available <a href="https://catholicclimatecovenant.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Season-of-Creation-Celebration-Guide-2026_EN.pdf" style="color:#467886; text-decoration:underline">here</a>. The Guide also outlines some very practical ideas to enhance your celebration of this gift from God.Pope Leo XIV approved the Mass for the Care of Creation (<a href="https://www.humandevelopment.va/en/news/2025/missa-pro-custodia-creationis-decreto-papa-leone-xiv.html" style="color:#467886; text-decoration:underline">Missa pro custodia creationis</a>) in July 2025, to encourage prayer and environmental stewardship. On July 9, 2025, he celebrated this votive Mass himself at Borgo Laudato Si’ in Castel Gandolfo. This year, he is scheduled to celebrate the Mass again at Castel Gandolfo on September 1. Pope Francis, when instituting the Day of Prayer, encouraged the participation of the entire people of God: priests, men and women religious; and the lay faithful. The pope that the day offered “individual believers and communities a fitting opportunity to reaffirm their personal vocation to be stewards of creation, to thank God for the wonderful handiwork which he has entrusted to our care, and to implore his help for the protection of creation as well as his pardon for the sins committed against the world in which we live.” There are many of <a href="https://worlddaycreation.com/en/" style="color:#467886; text-decoration:underline">liturgical resources available</a>.On August 20, Pope Leo published his message for the 2026 World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. It can be found <a href="https://www.humandevelopment.va/en/news/2026/messaggio-papa-leone-xiv-giornata-preghiera-creato-2026.html" style="color:#467886; text-decoration:underline">here</a>.As environment is a focus of our advocacy at the United Nations, we encourage you and your families to spend some time during the coming days praying, acting, and advocating for the environment.</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">+              +              +<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" height="446" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260901182215/b0a446bc616f90c80556e8d06a97ebdf_FormulaVitae.800Years.Esp.595px.png" width="580" /><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Carta del Prior General y recursos para el 800º aniversario de la Formula Vitae carmelita<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Queridas hermanas y hermanos del Carmelo:<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Este año celebramos el 800º aniversario del reconocimiento papal de la Formula Vitae carmelita: un momento clave de nuestros orígenes y un acontecimiento fundamental que celebrar.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Celebración de un momento crucial<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">En su reunión conjunta de marzo de 2026, ambos Consejos Generales reflexionaron sobre la importancia de este año para la Familia Carmelita y manifestaron su deseo de conmemorarlo de diversas maneras. Por ello, en los próximos meses promoverán una serie de iniciativas.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Creemos que será muy fructífero para toda la Familia Carmelita volver a reflexionar sobre nuestra Regla y asumirla como un texto actual para nuestros días.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">A principios de año, el Consejo General encargó al P. Míceál O’Neill, O. Carm., la preparación de cinco momentos de oración y reflexión para este aniversario. Por comodidad, le pedimos que tomara como base para estas reflexiones el texto definitivo de la Regla.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Al adentrarnos en los últimos meses de este año jubilar, os invitamos a utilizar estas reflexiones en las reuniones comunitarias de los frailes, monjas, miembros de la Tercera Orden y demás grupos de la Orden. Asimismo, os animamos a buscar otras formas de celebrar este aniversario dentro de vuestros contextos locales.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Comprender el contexto<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Es importante comprender el contexto histórico de lo sucedido hace 800 años. En un momento dado, los hermanos ermitaños que vivían en el Monte Carmelo decidieron dotarse de una organización más formal. Pidieron entonces a san Alberto de Jerusalén que codificara su forma de vida a partir de las pautas que ya practicaban. Alberto redactó la Formula Vitae, en algún momento entre su llegada a Tierra Santa en 1206 y su muerte en 1214.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Sin embargo, surgió un contratiempo imprevisto. El IV Concilio de Letrán (1215), con el fin de frenar la multiplicación de órdenes religiosas, obligó a las nuevas fundaciones a adoptar una de las reglas ya aprobadas. Esto provocó la fusión generalizada de algunas órdenes religiosas. Así, tomando como pretexto la legislación de dicho Concilio, se denegaba a menudo a los carmelitas el permiso para predicar en lugares públicos. A pesar de ello, los carmelitas defendieron su postura alegando que su Formula Vitae era anterior a la prohibición de 1215.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">El papa Honorio III (Ut vivendi normam)<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Posteriormente, los ermitaños del Monte Carmelo acudieron a la Santa Sede para obtener el reconocimiento legal. El 30 de enero de 1226, la bula Ut vivendi normam del papa Honorio III, dirigida al «prior y a los hermanos ermitaños del Monte Carmelo», aceptó formalmente la alegación de los carmelitas de haber recibido su «Fórmula de Vida» antes del IV Concilio de Letrán. El documento respaldaba la «Fórmula de Vida» de Alberto y concedía una indulgencia a quienes asumieran ese modo de vida de forma obligatori.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">La Ut vivendi normam (1226) puede considerarse un reconocimiento o una aprobación implícita<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">—que no una «confirmación» en sentido estricto— de la «Fórmula de Vida». Aunque no otorgaba formalmente a los carmelitas el estatus de religiosos en el sentido estricto del término, daba a entender que la observancia constante de la Norma de Alberto les confería un estatus canónico distinto al de los laicos comunes. De hecho, de haber sido reconocidos plenamente como religiosos en ese momento, se habrían visto obligados a adoptar «una de las reglas aprobadas» por el IV Concilio de Letrán.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Edificar la Familia Carmelita<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Durante los siglos siguientes, los carmelitas se extendieron por todo el mundo. En la actualidad, la Orden cuenta con dos ramas: la «Orden de los Hermanos de la Bienaventurado Virgen María del Monte Carmelo» (O.Carm.) y la Orden de los Hermanos Descalzos de Bienaventurada Virgen María del Monte Carmelo (O.C.D.), fruto de la reforma de santa Teresa de Jesús. Juntas conforman una «familia de familias» integrada por miles de frailes y monjas, miembros de la Tercera Orden, congregaciones afiliadas de hermanos y hermanas, y muchas personas unidas espiritualmente al Carmelo, especialmente a través del uso del Santo Escapulario.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Todos los miembros de esta familia remiten su origen como carmelitas a la Formula Vitae redactada por san Alberto de Jerusalén. Esta recibió su primer reconocimiento oficial hace 800 años de manos del papa Honorio III mediante la bula Ut vivendi normam, lo que supuso un hito fundamental en el camino del Carmelo: un camino que continúa hoy en día.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Un momento clave<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Aunque la bula Ut vivendi normam de 1226 no resolvió de manera definitiva todos los problemas de los carmelitas —y el texto sufrió posteriores modificaciones—, supuso el primer reconocimiento pontificio de la comunidad eremítica del Carmelo. Inocencio IV aprobó definitivamente la Regla carmelita en el 1247.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Este acontecimiento constituiría por sí solo un hito histórico; sin embargo, adquiere un significado aún mayor a la luz de las dificultades que afrontaron los hermanos tras las resoluciones del IV Concilio de Letrán.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Os invitamos a conmemorar este trascendental aniversario y a acoger la Regla como un texto de plena actualidad para nuestro tiempo.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Fraternalmente en el Carmelo,<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Desiderio García Martínez O. Carm.  Prior General<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;">Recursos adicionales<ul><li style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;"><a href="https://ocarm.org/es/general-council/2616-es-800-anos-carta-cinco-momentos-de-oracion-y-reflexion" style="color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Leer o descargar la carta del Prior General</a><li style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;"><a href="https://ocarm.org/es/general-council/2617-es-800-anos-la-formula-de-vida-carmelita" style="color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Leer o descargar la carta de la «Formula Vitae»: Cinco momentos de oración y reflexión</a><li style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;"><a href="https://ocarm.org/es/general-council/2618-es-el-logotipo-para-la-celebracion" style="color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Descargar el logotipo de la celebración</a></ul><p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">+           +           +<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"> <p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" height="107" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260901182215/15c2c71bd81ddef03f5674012aa47725_OnePage.logo.ESP.500px.png" width="500" />  <p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">Día Mundial de Oración por el Cuidado de la Creación, que marca el inicio del Tiempo de la Creación el 1 de septiembreEl 1 de septiembre es el Día Mundial de Oración por el Cuidado de la Creación, que marca el inicio del Tiempo de la Creación. Este tiempo especial termina el 4 de octubre, fiesta de San Francisco de Asís, el santo patrón de la ecología. Este período es nuestra oportunidad para enfocarnos en orar, actuar y defender el medio ambiente. El tema para 2026 es Agua viva, en referencia al pasaje de Ezequiel 47:9, 12. La imagen del agua viva que brota del santuario de Dios revela la sanación divina que renueva la tierra, el agua, la biodiversidad y la responsabilidad humana hacia toda la creación.El 1 de septiembre fue designado como el Día de Oración por la Creación por el Patriarca Ecuménico Dimitrios I en 1989 para la Iglesia Ortodoxa Oriental. En la antigua tradición litúrgica bizantina, simbolizaba el día en que Dios creó el mundo. En 2002, el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias comenzó a celebrarlo. El Papa Francisco estableció el Día Mundial de Oración por el Cuidado de la Creación en la Iglesia Católica Romana en 2015.Para comprender mejor este tiempo litúrgico, está disponible <a href="https://catholicclimatecovenant.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Season-of-Creation-Celebration-Guide-2026_EN.pdf">aquí</a> una Guía de celebración para 2026 de 43 páginas in ingles. La guía también proporciona algunas ideas muy prácticas para celebrar mejor este regalo de Dios.El Papa León XIV aprobó la Misa por el Cuidado de la Creación (<a href="https://www.humandevelopment.va/en/news/2025/missa-pro-custodia-creationis-decreto-papa-leone-xiv.html">Missa pro custodia creationis</a>) en julio de 2025, para fomentar la oración y la gestión responsable del medio ambiente. El 9 de julio de 2025, él mismo celebró esta misa votiva en Borgo Laudato Si’ en Castel Gandolfo. Este año, tiene previsto celebrar la misa de nuevo en Castel Gandolfo el 1 de septiembre. El Papa Francisco, al instituir el Día de Oración, animó a todo el pueblo de Dios a participar: sacerdotes, religiosos y religiosas, y los fieles laicos. El Papa dijo que este día ofrecía «a los creyentes individuales y a las comunidades una oportunidad adecuada para reafirmar su vocación personal de ser custodios de la creación, para agradecerle a Dios por la maravillosa obra que nos ha confiado, e implorar su ayuda para proteger la creación, así como su perdón por los pecados cometidos contra el mundo en el que vivimos». Hay muchos <a href="https://worlddaycreation.com/es/">recursos litúrgicos disponibles</a>.El 20 de agosto, el Papa León publicó su mensaje para el Día Mundial de Oración por el Cuidado de la Creación de 2026. Lo puedes encontrar <a href="https://www.humandevelopment.va/es/news/2026/messaggio-papa-leone-xiv-giornata-preghiera-creato-2026.html">aquí</a>.Como el medio ambiente es un tema central de nuestro trabajo de defensa en las Naciones Unidas, te animamos a ti y a tu familia a dedicar un tiempo en los próximos días a orar, actuar y defender el medio ambiente.<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">+              +              +<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"> <p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" height="411" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260901182215/ef222478842d89c2a9f5148165f216d4_FormulaVitae.800Anniversary.logo.ita.595..png" width="580" />Lettera del Priore Generale e risorse per l’800° anniversario della Formula Vitae carmelitana<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Care sorelle e cari fratelli del Carmelo,<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">quest'anno celebriamo gli 800 anni del riconoscimento pontificio della Formula Vitae carmelitana. Si è trattato di un momento fondamentale nella nostra storia delle origini e rappresenta un anniversario importante da celebrare.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Festeggiare un evento importante<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Entrambi i Consigli Generali hanno riflettuto sull'importanza di quest'anno per la Famiglia Carmelitana durante il nostro incontro congiunto del marzo 2026 e desiderano celebrarlo in diversi modi. Entrambi i Consigli Generali stanno programmando una serie di iniziative per i prossimi mesi.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Riteniamo, infatti, che sarebbe proficuo per l'intera Famiglia Carmelitana tornare a riflettere sulla nostra Regola del Carmelo e considerarla come un testo vivo e attuale. All'inizio di quest'anno, il Consiglio Generale ha affidato a Míceál O'Neill, OCarm, il compito di preparare una serie di cinque momenti di preghiera e riflessione in occasione di questo anniversario. (Per comodità, gli abbiamo chiesto di utilizzare come base per queste riflessioni il testo della Regola nella sua versione finale modificata)<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Mentre ci avviciniamo agli ultimi mesi di questo anno giubilare, ogni comunità di frati, suore, membri del Terzo Ordine e altri gruppi dell’Ordine è invitata a fare proprie queste riflessioni e a utilizzarle nel corso di diversi incontri comunitari. Potrete trovare ulteriori modi, nel vostro contesto locale, per celebrare questo anniversario.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Comprendere il contesto<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">È importante comprendere il contesto di ciò che accadde 800 anni fa. In un determinato momento, i fratelli eremiti del Monte Carmelo decisero di dotarsi di un’organizzazione più formale. Perciò si rivolsero a sant’Alberto di Gerusalemme affinché codificasse il loro stile di vita in conformità con quanto avevano già intrapreso. Sappiamo che, in un periodo compreso tra il suo arrivo in Terra Santa nel 1206 e il suo assassinio nel 1214, Alberto scrisse per loro la Formula Vitae.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Tuttavia, sorse un problema imprevisto. Il IV Concilio Lateranense del 1215, nel tentativo di limitare un'ulteriore diversificazione della vita religiosa, impose ai nuovi Ordini di scegliere una delle Regole già approvate. Ciò portò progressivamente a una generale fusione degli Ordini religiosi. Pertanto, utilizzando la legislazione del Quarto Concilio Lateranense come pretesto, ai Carmelitani veniva talvolta negato il permesso di predicare in luoghi pubblici.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Ciononostante, i Carmelitani difesero la loro posizione sostenendo che la loro Formula Vitae era antecedente al divieto del 1215.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Papa Onorio III (Ut vivendi normam)<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Successivamente, gli eremiti del Monte Carmelo entrarono in contatto con la Santa Sede al fine di garantire il proprio status giuridico. Il 30 gennaio 1226, la Ut vivendi normam di papa Onorio III, indirizzata al «Priore e ai fratelli eremiti del Monte Carmelo», accettò formalmente l’affermazione dei Carmelitani secondo cui avevano ricevuto la loro Formula di Vita prima del Quarto Concilio Lateranense del 1215. Questo documento riconosceva la validità della Formula Vitae di Alberto, concedendo un’indulgenza a coloro che accettavano quel modo di vita come obbligatorio.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Ut vivendi normam (1226) potrebbe essere considerata un riconoscimento o un’approvazione implicita (ma non una “conferma” in senso stretto) della Formula di Vita. Sebbene non riconoscesse formalmente i Carmelitani come religiosi, nel senso proprio del termine, Ut vivendi implicava che la loro osservanza regolare della norma di vita data da Alberto conferisse loro uno status canonico diverso da quello dei laici comuni. Se i Carmelitani fossero stati formalmente riconosciuti come religiosi a quel punto, sarebbero stati obbligati ad accettare<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">«una delle regole approvate» dal IV Concilio Lateranense.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Costruire la Famiglia Carmelitana<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Nel corso dei secoli successivi, i Carmelitani si sono diffusi in tutto il mondo. Oggi esistono due rami dell’Ordine dei Carmelitani: l’Ordine dei Fratelli di Nostra Signora del Monte Carmelo (OCarm) e l’Ordine dei Fratelli Scalzi della Beata Vergine Maria del Monte Carmelo (OCD), frutto della riforma di Santa Teresa d’Avila. Insieme, questi due rami costituiscono una<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">«famiglia di famiglie» composta da diverse migliaia di frati e suore carmelitani, membri del Terzo Ordine, congregazioni affiliate di suore e frati, e moltissime persone che sentono un legame spirituale con l’Ordine Carmelitano, in particolare attraverso il porto dello Scapolare.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Ogni membro di questa Famiglia Carmelitana deve la propria origine alla Formula Vitae redatta da sant’Alberto di Gerusalemme, che ottenne per la prima volta il riconoscimento papale 800 anni fa da papa Onorio III nell’Ut vivendi normam. Si tratta di una tappa fondamentale del cammino del Carmelo che continua ancora oggi nel mondo.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Un momento chiave<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Sebbene non risolvesse in modo completo e definitivo tutte le questioni che i Carmelitani dovevano affrontare – e il testo fosse stato successivamente modificato in alcuni punti – l’Ut vivendi normam di papa Onorio III del 1226 rappresentò il primo riconoscimento da parte del papa del gruppo degli eremiti carmelitani. Papa Innocenzo IV approvò definitivamente la Regola carmelitana nel 1247.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Questo evento sarebbe considerato un momento chiave anche a prescindere dai problemi che i fratelli eremiti stavano affrontando a causa delle decisioni del Concilio Lateranense IV. Esso assume un significato ancora maggiore proprio a causa di quella lotta iniziale.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Vi invitiamo a celebrare questo importante anniversario e a considerare la Regola come un testo vivo per i nostri giorni.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Nel Carmelo,<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Desiderio García Martínez O. Carm. Priore Generale<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; padding-left: 30px; margin-left: 80px;">Altre risorse<ul><li style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; padding-left: 30px; margin-left: 80px;"><a href="http://ocarm.org/it/general-council/2623-it-formula-vitae-800-anni-lettera-con-5-riflessioni-famiglia-carmelitana">Leggi o scarica la Letttera del Priore Generale</a><li style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; padding-left: 30px; margin-left: 80px;"><a href="https://ocarm.org/it/general-council/2622-it-800-anni-formula-vitae-dei-carmelitani" style="color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Leggi o scarica la Lettera tratta dalla Formula Vitae - Cinque momenti di preghiera e riflessione</a><li style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; padding-left: 30px; margin-left: 80px;"><a href="https://ocarm.org/it/general-council/2624-it-logo-per-la-celebrazione" style="color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Scarica il logo della celebrazione</a></ul><p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">+           +           +<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" height="98" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260901182215/3a9452f1b4e22281b0d28193db71f7b2_OnePage.Logo.Ita.450px.png" width="450" />  Giornata mondiale di preghiera per la cura del creato e l’inizio del Tempo del Creato il 1° settembreIl 1° settembre è la Giornata mondiale di preghiera per la cura del creato, che segna l’inizio del Tempo del Creato. Questo periodo speciale si conclude il 4 ottobre, festa di San Francesco d’Assisi, patrono dell’ecologia. È un’occasione per concentrarci sulla preghiera, sull’azione e sull’impegno a favore dell’ambiente. Il tema per il 2026 è Acqua viva, che fa riferimento al brano di Ezechiele 47,9 e 12. L’immagine dell’acqua viva che sgorga dal santuario di Dio rivela la guarigione divina che rinnova la terra, l’acqua, la biodiversità e la responsabilità umana verso l’intero creato.Il 1° settembre è stato designato Giornata di preghiera per il creato dal Patriarca ecumenico Dimitrios I nel 1989 per la Chiesa ortodossa orientale. Nell’antica tradizione liturgica bizantina, simboleggiava il giorno in cui il mondo fu creato da Dio. Nel 2002, il Consiglio ecumenico delle Chiese ha iniziato a celebrarla. Papa Francesco ha istituito la Giornata mondiale di preghiera per la cura del creato nella Chiesa cattolica romana nel 2015.Per aiutarti a capire meglio questo periodo, è disponibile <a href="https://catholicclimatecovenant.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Season-of-Creation-Celebration-Guide-2026_EN.pdf" style="color:#467886; text-decoration:underline">qui</a> una Guida alla celebrazione per il 2026 di 43 pagine in inglese. La Guida propone anche alcune idee molto pratiche per rendere ancora più bella la tua celebrazione di questo dono di Dio.Papa Leone XIV ha approvato la Messa per la cura del creato (<a href="https://www.humandevelopment.va/it/news/2025/missa-pro-custodia-creationis-decreto-papa-leone-xiv.html" style="color:#467886; text-decoration:underline">Missa pro custodia creationis</a>) nel luglio 2025, per incoraggiare la preghiera e la tutela dell’ambiente. Il 9 luglio 2025, ha celebrato lui stesso questa Messa votiva a Borgo Laudato Si’ a Castel Gandolfo. Quest’anno, è previsto che celebri nuovamente la Messa a Castel Gandolfo il 1° settembre. Papa Francesco, quando ha istituito la Giornata di preghiera, ha incoraggiato la partecipazione di tutto il popolo di Dio: sacerdoti, religiosi e religiose, e fedeli laici. Il Papa ha affermato che questa giornata offre «ai singoli credenti e alle comunità un’occasione propizia per riaffermare la propria vocazione personale di custodi del creato, per ringraziare Dio per la meravigliosa opera che ha affidato alle nostre cure e per implorare il suo aiuto per la protezione del creato, nonché il suo perdono per i peccati commessi contro il mondo in cui viviamo». Sono disponibili molte <a href="https://worlddaycreation.com/it/" style="color:#467886; text-decoration:underline">risorse liturgiche</a>.Il 20 agosto, Papa Leone ha pubblicato il suo messaggio per la Giornata Mondiale di Preghiera per la Cura del Creato del 2026. Lo trovi <a href="https://www.humandevelopment.va/it/news/2026/messaggio-papa-leone-xiv-giornata-preghiera-creato-2026.html" style="color:#467886; text-decoration:underline">qui</a>.Dato che l’ambiente è al centro del nostro impegno alle Nazioni Unite, incoraggiamo te e la tua famiglia a dedicare un po’ di tempo nei prossimi giorni alla preghiera, all’azione e alla difesa dell’ambiente.<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">+              +              +<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.ocarm.org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; " target="_blank">www.ocarm.org</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ocarm_org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/ocarm_org</a>  <a data-widget="image" href="https://ocarm.org/en/contact-us"><img alt="Curia Generalizia dei Carmelitani" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260901182215/3233e4f55c783d45774c94ad6ceb5794_citoc_footer_600.png" style="clear: both; display: block; height: 252px; max-width: 100%; outline: currentcolor none medium; text-decoration: none; width: 600px;" /></a></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"> </td></tr><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> </td></tr></tbody></table>

137/2026: CITOC Update (1/IX/2026)

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:14:00 GMT

<table height="1309" width="600"><tbody><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"> <img alt="CITOC News" data-widget="image" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260901181418/8f5c7a94e3b83e9ae8d6a9ac8f80d032_citoc_header_600.png" style="clear: both; display: block; height: 315px; max-width: 100%; outline: currentcolor none medium; text-decoration: none; width: 600px;" /> <p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><img alt="" height="473" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260901181418/ed5d32547488f4042adf9c282a78c6fd_Rule.800Years.Logo.English.29.jpg" width="450" />Letter from the Prior General and Resources for the 800th Anniversary of the Carmelite Formula Vitae<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Dear sisters and brothers in Carmel,<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">This year we are celebrating 800 years of papal recognition of the Carmelite Formula Vitae. This was a key moment in our early history and is an important anniversary to celebrate.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Celebrating a Vital Moment<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Both General Councils considered the importance of this year for the Carmelite Family at our joint meeting in March 2026 and wish to celebrate it in various ways. Both General Councils are planning a number of initiatives in the coming months.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Indeed, we believe that it would be fruitful for the entire Carmelite Family to reflect once again on our Carmelite Rule and see it as a living text for today. Earlier this year, the General Council commissioned Míceál O’Neill OCarm to compile a series of five moments of prayer and reflection for this anniversary. (For convenience, we asked that he would use the text of the Rule as it was finally modified as the basis for these reflections.)<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">As we enter the final months of this anniversary year, each community of friars, nuns, Third Order and other groups in the Order is invited to take these reflections and use them over several community meetings. You may find additional ways within your local contexts to celebrate this anniversary.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Understanding the Context<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">It is important to understand the context of what happened 800 years ago. At some point in time, the hermit-brothers living on Mount Carmel decided to undergo a more formal organisation. They asked St Albert of Jerusalem to set down their way of life along the lines they were already living. We know that sometime between his arrival in the Holy Land in 1206 and his murder in 1214, Albert wrote the Formula Vitae for them.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Yet, an unforeseen problem arose. The Fourth Lateran Council in 1215, wishing to limit further diversification of religious life, obliged new orders to choose one of the already approved rules. This led towards a general amalgamation of religious orders. Thus, using the legislation of the Fourth Lateran Council as an excuse, Carmelites were sometimes refused permission to preach in public venues.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Even so, the Carmelites defended their position with the fact that their Formula Vitae came before the prohibition of 1215.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Pope Honorius III (Ut vivendi normam)<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Subsequently, the hermits of Mount Carmel made contact with the Holy See in order to secure their legal standing. On January 30, 1226, Pope Honorius III’s Ut vivendi normam, addressed to the “Prior and hermit-brothers of Mount Carmel,” formally accepted the Carmelites’ claim to have received their Formula of Life before the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. This document recommended Albert’s Formula Vitae granting an indulgence to those who accepted that way of life as obligatory.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Ut vivendi normam (1226) could be considered an acknowledgement or an implicit approbation (but not a “confirmation” in the proper sense) of the Formula of Life. Although it did not formally recognise the Carmelites as religious, in the proper sense of that term, Ut vivendi implied that their regular observance of the norm of life given by Albert gave them a canonical status different from that of ordinary laymen. Had the Carmelites been formally recognised as Religious at this point, they would have been obliged to accept “one of the rules approved” by the Fourth Lateran Council.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Building the Carmelite Family<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Over the subsequent centuries, Carmelites have spread throughout the world. There are now two branches of Carmelites: The Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (OCarm) and the Order of the Discalced Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (OCD), fruit of the St Teresa of Avila Reform. Together these two branches are a ‘family of families’ made up of several thousand Carmelite friars, nuns, members of the Third Order, affiliated congregations of sisters and brothers, and very many people who feel a spiritual bond with Carmelite Order – often most especially through the wearing of the Scapular.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Every member of this family owes their origin as Carmelites to the Formula Vitae written by St Albert of Jerusalem which was first given papal recognition 800 years ago by Pope Honorius III in Ut vivendi normam. It was an important milestone of the journey of Carmel: a journey which continues today.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">A Key Moment<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14x; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">While it did not completely and permanently resolve all the issues that Carmelites faced – and the text was modified on a small number of subsequent occasions – Pope Honorius III’s Ut vivendi normam in 1226 was the first recognition by the pope of the group of Carmelite hermits. Pope Innocent IV gave final approval to the Carmelite Rule in 1247.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">This would be considered a key moment even without the problems that the hermit-brothers were facing through the decisions of the Fourth Lateran Council. It takes on an even greater significance because of that initial struggle.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">We invite you to celebrate this important anniversary and to see the Rule as living text for today. In Carmel,<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Desiderio García Martínez, O. Carm. Prior General<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;">Additional Resources:<ul><li style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;"><a class="doclink-insert docman_track_download k-ui-namespace" data-id="2614" data-processed="data-processed" data-title="EN 800 years Letter with 5 Reflections on the Rule" href="https://ocarm.org/en/general-council/2614-en-800-years-letter-with-5-reflections-on-the-rule" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="application/pdf">Read or download the Letter from the Prior General (416 KB)</a><li style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;"><a class="doclink-insert docman_track_download k-ui-namespace" data-id="2613" data-processed="data-processed" data-title="EN 800 Years Formula Vitae Carmelites" href="https://ocarm.org/en/general-council/2613-en-800-years-formula-vitae-carmelites" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="application/pdf">Read or download the Letter from the Formula Vitae - Five Moments of Prayer and Reflection (644 KB)</a><li style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;"><a class="doclink-insert docman_track_download k-ui-namespace" data-id="2615" data-processed="data-processed" data-title="EN Logo for the celebration" href="https://ocarm.org/en/general-council/2615-en-logo-for-the-celebration" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="image/png">Download the Logo for the celebration (435 KB)</a><li style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;"><a class="doclink-insert docman_track_download k-ui-namespace" data-id="2621" data-processed="data-processed" data-title="ID Surat 800 tahun Pengakuan Paus" href="https://ocarm.org/en/general-council/2621-id-surat-800-tahun-pengakuan-paus" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="application/pdf">ID - Surat - 800 tahun Pengakuan Paus (469 KB)</a><li style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;"><a class="doclink-insert docman_track_download k-ui-namespace" data-id="2619" data-processed="data-processed" data-title="ID 800 tahun Carmelite Formula Vitae INA" href="https://ocarm.org/en/general-council/2619-id-800-tahun-carmelite-formula-vitae-ina" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="application/pdf">ID - 800 tahun Carmelite Formula Vitae_INA (642 KB)</a><li style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;"><a class="doclink-insert docman_track_download k-ui-namespace" data-id="2620" data-processed="data-processed" data-title="ID Logo untuk perayaan tersebut" href="https://ocarm.org/en/general-council/2620-id-logo-untuk-perayaan-tersebut" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="image/png">Logo untuk perayaan tersebut(437 KB)</a></ul><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;"><a class="doclink-insert docman_track_download k-ui-namespace" data-id="2620" data-processed="data-processed" data-title="ID Logo untuk perayaan tersebut" href="https://ocarm.org/en/general-council/2620-id-logo-untuk-perayaan-tersebut" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="image/png"><span class="k-visually-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: absolute; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); height: 1px; width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; float: none;">ima</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">+           +           +<img alt="" height="141" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260901181418/37cea0b86a7362e2c2c7456149629550_OnePage.Masthead.Eng.450px.png" width="450" />World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation and the Start of the Season of Creation on September 1September 1st is World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, the start of the Season of Creation. This special time concludes on October 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of ecology. This period is our opportunity to focus on praying, acting, and advocating for the environment. The theme for 2026 is Living Water referencing the passage in Ezekial 47:9, 12. The image of living water flowing from God’s sanctuary reveals divine healing that renews land, water, biodiversity, and human responsibility towards the whole of creation.To assist in understanding the season, a 43-page Celebration Guide for 2026 is available <a href="https://catholicclimatecovenant.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Season-of-Creation-Celebration-Guide-2026_EN.pdf" style="color:#467886; text-decoration:underline">here</a>. The Guide also outlines some very practical ideas to enhance your celebration of this gift from God.Pope Leo XIV approved the Mass for the Care of Creation (<a href="https://www.humandevelopment.va/en/news/2025/missa-pro-custodia-creationis-decreto-papa-leone-xiv.html" style="color:#467886; text-decoration:underline">Missa pro custodia creationis</a>) in July 2025, to encourage prayer and environmental stewardship. On July 9, 2025, he celebrated this votive Mass himself at Borgo Laudato Si’ in Castel Gandolfo. This year, he is scheduled to celebrate the Mass again at Castel Gandolfo on September 1. Pope Francis, when instituting the Day of Prayer, encouraged the participation of the entire people of God: priests, men and women religious; and the lay faithful. The pope that the day offered “individual believers and communities a fitting opportunity to reaffirm their personal vocation to be stewards of creation, to thank God for the wonderful handiwork which he has entrusted to our care, and to implore his help for the protection of creation as well as his pardon for the sins committed against the world in which we live.” There are many of <a href="https://worlddaycreation.com/en/" style="color:#467886; text-decoration:underline">liturgical resources available</a>.On August 20, Pope Leo published his message for the 2026 World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. It can be found <a href="https://www.humandevelopment.va/en/news/2026/messaggio-papa-leone-xiv-giornata-preghiera-creato-2026.html" style="color:#467886; text-decoration:underline">here</a>.As environment is a focus of our advocacy at the United Nations, we encourage you and your families to spend some time during the coming days praying, acting, and advocating for the environment.</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">+              +              +<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" height="446" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260901181418/b0a446bc616f90c80556e8d06a97ebdf_FormulaVitae.800Years.Esp.595px.png" width="580" /><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Carta del Prior General y recursos para el 800º aniversario de la Formula Vitae carmelita<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Queridas hermanas y hermanos del Carmelo:<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Este año celebramos el 800º aniversario del reconocimiento papal de la Formula Vitae carmelita: un momento clave de nuestros orígenes y un acontecimiento fundamental que celebrar.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Celebración de un momento crucial<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">En su reunión conjunta de marzo de 2026, ambos Consejos Generales reflexionaron sobre la importancia de este año para la Familia Carmelita y manifestaron su deseo de conmemorarlo de diversas maneras. Por ello, en los próximos meses promoverán una serie de iniciativas.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Creemos que será muy fructífero para toda la Familia Carmelita volver a reflexionar sobre nuestra Regla y asumirla como un texto actual para nuestros días.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">A principios de año, el Consejo General encargó al P. Míceál O’Neill, O. Carm., la preparación de cinco momentos de oración y reflexión para este aniversario. Por comodidad, le pedimos que tomara como base para estas reflexiones el texto definitivo de la Regla.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Al adentrarnos en los últimos meses de este año jubilar, os invitamos a utilizar estas reflexiones en las reuniones comunitarias de los frailes, monjas, miembros de la Tercera Orden y demás grupos de la Orden. Asimismo, os animamos a buscar otras formas de celebrar este aniversario dentro de vuestros contextos locales.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Comprender el contexto<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Es importante comprender el contexto histórico de lo sucedido hace 800 años. En un momento dado, los hermanos ermitaños que vivían en el Monte Carmelo decidieron dotarse de una organización más formal. Pidieron entonces a san Alberto de Jerusalén que codificara su forma de vida a partir de las pautas que ya practicaban. Alberto redactó la Formula Vitae, en algún momento entre su llegada a Tierra Santa en 1206 y su muerte en 1214.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Sin embargo, surgió un contratiempo imprevisto. El IV Concilio de Letrán (1215), con el fin de frenar la multiplicación de órdenes religiosas, obligó a las nuevas fundaciones a adoptar una de las reglas ya aprobadas. Esto provocó la fusión generalizada de algunas órdenes religiosas. Así, tomando como pretexto la legislación de dicho Concilio, se denegaba a menudo a los carmelitas el permiso para predicar en lugares públicos. A pesar de ello, los carmelitas defendieron su postura alegando que su Formula Vitae era anterior a la prohibición de 1215.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">El papa Honorio III (Ut vivendi normam)<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Posteriormente, los ermitaños del Monte Carmelo acudieron a la Santa Sede para obtener el reconocimiento legal. El 30 de enero de 1226, la bula Ut vivendi normam del papa Honorio III, dirigida al «prior y a los hermanos ermitaños del Monte Carmelo», aceptó formalmente la alegación de los carmelitas de haber recibido su «Fórmula de Vida» antes del IV Concilio de Letrán. El documento respaldaba la «Fórmula de Vida» de Alberto y concedía una indulgencia a quienes asumieran ese modo de vida de forma obligatori.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">La Ut vivendi normam (1226) puede considerarse un reconocimiento o una aprobación implícita<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">—que no una «confirmación» en sentido estricto— de la «Fórmula de Vida». Aunque no otorgaba formalmente a los carmelitas el estatus de religiosos en el sentido estricto del término, daba a entender que la observancia constante de la Norma de Alberto les confería un estatus canónico distinto al de los laicos comunes. De hecho, de haber sido reconocidos plenamente como religiosos en ese momento, se habrían visto obligados a adoptar «una de las reglas aprobadas» por el IV Concilio de Letrán.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Edificar la Familia Carmelita<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Durante los siglos siguientes, los carmelitas se extendieron por todo el mundo. En la actualidad, la Orden cuenta con dos ramas: la «Orden de los Hermanos de la Bienaventurado Virgen María del Monte Carmelo» (O.Carm.) y la Orden de los Hermanos Descalzos de Bienaventurada Virgen María del Monte Carmelo (O.C.D.), fruto de la reforma de santa Teresa de Jesús. Juntas conforman una «familia de familias» integrada por miles de frailes y monjas, miembros de la Tercera Orden, congregaciones afiliadas de hermanos y hermanas, y muchas personas unidas espiritualmente al Carmelo, especialmente a través del uso del Santo Escapulario.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Todos los miembros de esta familia remiten su origen como carmelitas a la Formula Vitae redactada por san Alberto de Jerusalén. Esta recibió su primer reconocimiento oficial hace 800 años de manos del papa Honorio III mediante la bula Ut vivendi normam, lo que supuso un hito fundamental en el camino del Carmelo: un camino que continúa hoy en día.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Un momento clave<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Aunque la bula Ut vivendi normam de 1226 no resolvió de manera definitiva todos los problemas de los carmelitas —y el texto sufrió posteriores modificaciones—, supuso el primer reconocimiento pontificio de la comunidad eremítica del Carmelo. Inocencio IV aprobó definitivamente la Regla carmelita en el 1247.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Este acontecimiento constituiría por sí solo un hito histórico; sin embargo, adquiere un significado aún mayor a la luz de las dificultades que afrontaron los hermanos tras las resoluciones del IV Concilio de Letrán.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Os invitamos a conmemorar este trascendental aniversario y a acoger la Regla como un texto de plena actualidad para nuestro tiempo.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Fraternalmente en el Carmelo,<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Desiderio García Martínez O. Carm.  Prior General<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;">Recursos adicionales<ul><li style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;"><a href="https://ocarm.org/es/general-council/2616-es-800-anos-carta-cinco-momentos-de-oracion-y-reflexion" style="color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Leer o descargar la carta del Prior General</a><li style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;"><a href="https://ocarm.org/es/general-council/2617-es-800-anos-la-formula-de-vida-carmelita" style="color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Leer o descargar la carta de la «Formula Vitae»: Cinco momentos de oración y reflexión</a><li style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; margin-left: 80px;"><a href="https://ocarm.org/es/general-council/2618-es-el-logotipo-para-la-celebracion" style="color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Descargar el logotipo de la celebración</a></ul><p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">+           +           +<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"> <p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" height="107" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260901181418/15c2c71bd81ddef03f5674012aa47725_OnePage.logo.ESP.500px.png" width="500" />  <p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">Día Mundial de Oración por el Cuidado de la Creación, que marca el inicio del Tiempo de la Creación el 1 de septiembreEl 1 de septiembre es el Día Mundial de Oración por el Cuidado de la Creación, que marca el inicio del Tiempo de la Creación. Este tiempo especial termina el 4 de octubre, fiesta de San Francisco de Asís, el santo patrón de la ecología. Este período es nuestra oportunidad para enfocarnos en orar, actuar y defender el medio ambiente. El tema para 2026 es Agua viva, en referencia al pasaje de Ezequiel 47:9, 12. La imagen del agua viva que brota del santuario de Dios revela la sanación divina que renueva la tierra, el agua, la biodiversidad y la responsabilidad humana hacia toda la creación.El 1 de septiembre fue designado como el Día de Oración por la Creación por el Patriarca Ecuménico Dimitrios I en 1989 para la Iglesia Ortodoxa Oriental. En la antigua tradición litúrgica bizantina, simbolizaba el día en que Dios creó el mundo. En 2002, el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias comenzó a celebrarlo. El Papa Francisco estableció el Día Mundial de Oración por el Cuidado de la Creación en la Iglesia Católica Romana en 2015.Para comprender mejor este tiempo litúrgico, está disponible <a href="https://catholicclimatecovenant.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Season-of-Creation-Celebration-Guide-2026_EN.pdf">aquí</a> una Guía de celebración para 2026 de 43 páginas in ingles. La guía también proporciona algunas ideas muy prácticas para celebrar mejor este regalo de Dios.El Papa León XIV aprobó la Misa por el Cuidado de la Creación (<a href="https://www.humandevelopment.va/en/news/2025/missa-pro-custodia-creationis-decreto-papa-leone-xiv.html">Missa pro custodia creationis</a>) en julio de 2025, para fomentar la oración y la gestión responsable del medio ambiente. El 9 de julio de 2025, él mismo celebró esta misa votiva en Borgo Laudato Si’ en Castel Gandolfo. Este año, tiene previsto celebrar la misa de nuevo en Castel Gandolfo el 1 de septiembre. El Papa Francisco, al instituir el Día de Oración, animó a todo el pueblo de Dios a participar: sacerdotes, religiosos y religiosas, y los fieles laicos. El Papa dijo que este día ofrecía «a los creyentes individuales y a las comunidades una oportunidad adecuada para reafirmar su vocación personal de ser custodios de la creación, para agradecerle a Dios por la maravillosa obra que nos ha confiado, e implorar su ayuda para proteger la creación, así como su perdón por los pecados cometidos contra el mundo en el que vivimos». Hay muchos <a href="https://worlddaycreation.com/es/">recursos litúrgicos disponibles</a>.El 20 de agosto, el Papa León publicó su mensaje para el Día Mundial de Oración por el Cuidado de la Creación de 2026. Lo puedes encontrar <a href="https://www.humandevelopment.va/es/news/2026/messaggio-papa-leone-xiv-giornata-preghiera-creato-2026.html">aquí</a>.Como el medio ambiente es un tema central de nuestro trabajo de defensa en las Naciones Unidas, te animamos a ti y a tu familia a dedicar un tiempo en los próximos días a orar, actuar y defender el medio ambiente.<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">+              +              +<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"> <p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" height="411" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260901181418/ef222478842d89c2a9f5148165f216d4_FormulaVitae.800Anniversary.logo.ita.595..png" width="580" /></td></tr></tbody></table></th></tr></table></th></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></center></td></tr></table>Lettera del Priore Generale e risorse per l’800° anniversario della Formula Vitae carmelitana<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Care sorelle e cari fratelli del Carmelo,<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">quest'anno celebriamo gli 800 anni del riconoscimento pontificio della Formula Vitae carmelitana. Si è trattato di un momento fondamentale nella nostra storia delle origini e rappresenta un anniversario importante da celebrare.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Festeggiare un evento importante<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Entrambi i Consigli Generali hanno riflettuto sull'importanza di quest'anno per la Famiglia Carmelitana durante il nostro incontro congiunto del marzo 2026 e desiderano celebrarlo in diversi modi. Entrambi i Consigli Generali stanno programmando una serie di iniziative per i prossimi mesi.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Riteniamo, infatti, che sarebbe proficuo per l'intera Famiglia Carmelitana tornare a riflettere sulla nostra Regola del Carmelo e considerarla come un testo vivo e attuale. All'inizio di quest'anno, il Consiglio Generale ha affidato a Míceál O'Neill, OCarm, il compito di preparare una serie di cinque momenti di preghiera e riflessione in occasione di questo anniversario. (Per comodità, gli abbiamo chiesto di utilizzare come base per queste riflessioni il testo della Regola nella sua versione finale modificata)<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Mentre ci avviciniamo agli ultimi mesi di questo anno giubilare, ogni comunità di frati, suore, membri del Terzo Ordine e altri gruppi dell’Ordine è invitata a fare proprie queste riflessioni e a utilizzarle nel corso di diversi incontri comunitari. Potrete trovare ulteriori modi, nel vostro contesto locale, per celebrare questo anniversario.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Comprendere il contesto<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">È importante comprendere il contesto di ciò che accadde 800 anni fa. In un determinato momento, i fratelli eremiti del Monte Carmelo decisero di dotarsi di un’organizzazione più formale. Perciò si rivolsero a sant’Alberto di Gerusalemme affinché codificasse il loro stile di vita in conformità con quanto avevano già intrapreso. Sappiamo che, in un periodo compreso tra il suo arrivo in Terra Santa nel 1206 e il suo assassinio nel 1214, Alberto scrisse per loro la Formula Vitae.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Tuttavia, sorse un problema imprevisto. Il IV Concilio Lateranense del 1215, nel tentativo di limitare un'ulteriore diversificazione della vita religiosa, impose ai nuovi Ordini di scegliere una delle Regole già approvate. Ciò portò progressivamente a una generale fusione degli Ordini religiosi. Pertanto, utilizzando la legislazione del Quarto Concilio Lateranense come pretesto, ai Carmelitani veniva talvolta negato il permesso di predicare in luoghi pubblici.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Ciononostante, i Carmelitani difesero la loro posizione sostenendo che la loro Formula Vitae era antecedente al divieto del 1215.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Papa Onorio III (Ut vivendi normam)<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Successivamente, gli eremiti del Monte Carmelo entrarono in contatto con la Santa Sede al fine di garantire il proprio status giuridico. Il 30 gennaio 1226, la Ut vivendi normam di papa Onorio III, indirizzata al «Priore e ai fratelli eremiti del Monte Carmelo», accettò formalmente l’affermazione dei Carmelitani secondo cui avevano ricevuto la loro Formula di Vita prima del Quarto Concilio Lateranense del 1215. Questo documento riconosceva la validità della Formula Vitae di Alberto, concedendo un’indulgenza a coloro che accettavano quel modo di vita come obbligatorio.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Ut vivendi normam (1226) potrebbe essere considerata un riconoscimento o un’approvazione implicita (ma non una “conferma” in senso stretto) della Formula di Vita. Sebbene non riconoscesse formalmente i Carmelitani come religiosi, nel senso proprio del termine, Ut vivendi implicava che la loro osservanza regolare della norma di vita data da Alberto conferisse loro uno status canonico diverso da quello dei laici comuni. Se i Carmelitani fossero stati formalmente riconosciuti come religiosi a quel punto, sarebbero stati obbligati ad accettare<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">«una delle regole approvate» dal IV Concilio Lateranense.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Costruire la Famiglia Carmelitana<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Nel corso dei secoli successivi, i Carmelitani si sono diffusi in tutto il mondo. Oggi esistono due rami dell’Ordine dei Carmelitani: l’Ordine dei Fratelli di Nostra Signora del Monte Carmelo (OCarm) e l’Ordine dei Fratelli Scalzi della Beata Vergine Maria del Monte Carmelo (OCD), frutto della riforma di Santa Teresa d’Avila. Insieme, questi due rami costituiscono una<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">«famiglia di famiglie» composta da diverse migliaia di frati e suore carmelitani, membri del Terzo Ordine, congregazioni affiliate di suore e frati, e moltissime persone che sentono un legame spirituale con l’Ordine Carmelitano, in particolare attraverso il porto dello Scapolare.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Ogni membro di questa Famiglia Carmelitana deve la propria origine alla Formula Vitae redatta da sant’Alberto di Gerusalemme, che ottenne per la prima volta il riconoscimento papale 800 anni fa da papa Onorio III nell’Ut vivendi normam. Si tratta di una tappa fondamentale del cammino del Carmelo che continua ancora oggi nel mondo.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Un momento chiave<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Sebbene non risolvesse in modo completo e definitivo tutte le questioni che i Carmelitani dovevano affrontare – e il testo fosse stato successivamente modificato in alcuni punti – l’Ut vivendi normam di papa Onorio III del 1226 rappresentò il primo riconoscimento da parte del papa del gruppo degli eremiti carmelitani. Papa Innocenzo IV approvò definitivamente la Regola carmelitana nel 1247.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Questo evento sarebbe considerato un momento chiave anche a prescindere dai problemi che i fratelli eremiti stavano affrontando a causa delle decisioni del Concilio Lateranense IV. Esso assume un significato ancora maggiore proprio a causa di quella lotta iniziale.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Vi invitiamo a celebrare questo importante anniversario e a considerare la Regola come un testo vivo per i nostri giorni.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Nel Carmelo,<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Desiderio García Martínez O. Carm. Priore Generale<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; padding-left: 30px; margin-left: 80px;">Altre risorse<ul><li style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; padding-left: 30px; margin-left: 80px;"><a href="http://ocarm.org/it/general-council/2623-it-formula-vitae-800-anni-lettera-con-5-riflessioni-famiglia-carmelitana">Leggi o scarica la Letttera del Priore Generale</a><li style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; padding-left: 30px; margin-left: 80px;"><a href="https://ocarm.org/it/general-council/2622-it-800-anni-formula-vitae-dei-carmelitani" style="color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Leggi o scarica la Lettera tratta dalla Formula Vitae - Cinque momenti di preghiera e riflessione</a><li style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; padding-left: 30px; margin-left: 80px;"><a href="https://ocarm.org/it/general-council/2624-it-logo-per-la-celebrazione" style="color: rgb(74, 145, 201); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Scarica il logo della celebrazione</a></ul><p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">+           +           +<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" height="98" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260901181418/3a9452f1b4e22281b0d28193db71f7b2_OnePage.Logo.Ita.450px.png" width="450" />  Giornata mondiale di preghiera per la cura del creato e l’inizio del Tempo del Creato il 1° settembreIl 1° settembre è la Giornata mondiale di preghiera per la cura del creato, che segna l’inizio del Tempo del Creato. Questo periodo speciale si conclude il 4 ottobre, festa di San Francesco d’Assisi, patrono dell’ecologia. È un’occasione per concentrarci sulla preghiera, sull’azione e sull’impegno a favore dell’ambiente. Il tema per il 2026 è Acqua viva, che fa riferimento al brano di Ezechiele 47,9 e 12. L’immagine dell’acqua viva che sgorga dal santuario di Dio rivela la guarigione divina che rinnova la terra, l’acqua, la biodiversità e la responsabilità umana verso l’intero creato.Il 1° settembre è stato designato Giornata di preghiera per il creato dal Patriarca ecumenico Dimitrios I nel 1989 per la Chiesa ortodossa orientale. Nell’antica tradizione liturgica bizantina, simboleggiava il giorno in cui il mondo fu creato da Dio. Nel 2002, il Consiglio ecumenico delle Chiese ha iniziato a celebrarla. Papa Francesco ha istituito la Giornata mondiale di preghiera per la cura del creato nella Chiesa cattolica romana nel 2015.Per aiutarti a capire meglio questo periodo, è disponibile <a href="https://catholicclimatecovenant.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Season-of-Creation-Celebration-Guide-2026_EN.pdf" style="color:#467886; text-decoration:underline">qui</a> una Guida alla celebrazione per il 2026 di 43 pagine in inglese. La Guida propone anche alcune idee molto pratiche per rendere ancora più bella la tua celebrazione di questo dono di Dio.Papa Leone XIV ha approvato la Messa per la cura del creato (<a href="https://www.humandevelopment.va/it/news/2025/missa-pro-custodia-creationis-decreto-papa-leone-xiv.html" style="color:#467886; text-decoration:underline">Missa pro custodia creationis</a>) nel luglio 2025, per incoraggiare la preghiera e la tutela dell’ambiente. Il 9 luglio 2025, ha celebrato lui stesso questa Messa votiva a Borgo Laudato Si’ a Castel Gandolfo. Quest’anno, è previsto che celebri nuovamente la Messa a Castel Gandolfo il 1° settembre. Papa Francesco, quando ha istituito la Giornata di preghiera, ha incoraggiato la partecipazione di tutto il popolo di Dio: sacerdoti, religiosi e religiose, e fedeli laici. Il Papa ha affermato che questa giornata offre «ai singoli credenti e alle comunità un’occasione propizia per riaffermare la propria vocazione personale di custodi del creato, per ringraziare Dio per la meravigliosa opera che ha affidato alle nostre cure e per implorare il suo aiuto per la protezione del creato, nonché il suo perdono per i peccati commessi contro il mondo in cui viviamo». Sono disponibili molte <a href="https://worlddaycreation.com/it/" style="color:#467886; text-decoration:underline">risorse liturgiche</a>.Il 20 agosto, Papa Leone ha pubblicato il suo messaggio per la Giornata Mondiale di Preghiera per la Cura del Creato del 2026. Lo trovi <a href="https://www.humandevelopment.va/it/news/2026/messaggio-papa-leone-xiv-giornata-preghiera-creato-2026.html" style="color:#467886; text-decoration:underline">qui</a>.Dato che l’ambiente è al centro del nostro impegno alle Nazioni Unite, incoraggiamo te e la tua famiglia a dedicare un po’ di tempo nei prossimi giorni alla preghiera, all’azione e alla difesa dell’ambiente.<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">+              +              +<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.ocarm.org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; " target="_blank">www.ocarm.org</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ocarm_org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/ocarm_org</a>  <a data-widget="image" href="https://ocarm.org/en/contact-us"><img alt="Curia Generalizia dei Carmelitani" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260901181418/3233e4f55c783d45774c94ad6ceb5794_citoc_footer_600.png" style="clear: both; display: block; height: 252px; max-width: 100%; outline: currentcolor none medium; text-decoration: none; width: 600px;" /></a><table><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"> </td></tr><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> </td></tr></table>

136/2026: St. Teresa Margaret Redi (OCD), virgin (September 1)

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:11:00 GMT

<table border="0" cellspacing="3" height="1169" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" width="602"><tbody><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><h4><img alt="CITOC News" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260901161115/8f5c7a94e3b83e9ae8d6a9ac8f80d032_citoc_header_600.png" style="clear: both; display: block; height: 315px; max-width: 100%; outline: currentcolor none medium; text-decoration: none; width: 600px;" /></h4><img alt="" height="385" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260901161115/75da498e408a9e1cf219667897d2b76a_TeresaMargaretRedi.ocd.saint.painting.495.png" width="580" /></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">St. Teresa Margaret Redi, virgin September 1 | Optional Memorial<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">St. Teresa Margaret Redi, OCD., was recognized as an intensely spiritual religious with a profound devotion to the phrase "God is love." She was also noted for her humble service to the sick.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">One of the girls who had graduated from the boarding school several years before approached one of Anna Maria’s teachers to thank her for the education and the Christian formation, as she was entering the Carmelites. Anna Maria saw the deep joy on this young woman’s face and instantly knew that she, too, desired to enter the Carmelites.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">In the spring of 1764, she applied to the Monastery of St. Teresa in Florence and was admitted in November. She took the name Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart and professed her vows in March of 1766.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Teresa was assigned the role of community nurse, and she tenderly cared for the suffering sisters in her care, particularly those experiencing mental illness. Teresa devoted herself to caring for her fellow sisters and cultivating her robust interior life. As a Carmelite sister, Teresa maintained the disposition of joy that drew her to the Order, despite rebukes and harsh treatment.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Teresa died at the age of twenty-three, on March 11, 1770, in the midst of an outbreak of a disease in the monastery. She continued caring for other ill nuns until she reached her deathbed. Teresa’s body, swollen from disease, at the time of her funeral, had miraculously been restored to its healthy form.<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px 80px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://ocarm.org/en/item/217-st-teresa-margaret-redi-ocd-virgin">Read more on the life of St. Teresa Margaret Redi</a> ...<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">+           +           +<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"> <p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">Santa Teresa Margarita Redi (OCD), virgen 1 de septiembre | Memoria libre<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Santa Teresa Margarita Redi, OCD, fue reconocida como una religiosa de gran espiritualidad, con una profunda devoción por la frase «Dios es amor». También se la destacaba por su humilde servicio a los enfermos.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Una de las chicas que se había graduado del internado varios años antes se acercó a una de las maestras de Anna María para agradecerle la educación y la formación cristiana que había recibido, ya que estaba a punto de ingresar a las Carmelitas. Anna María vio la profunda alegría en el rostro de esta joven y al instante supo que ella también deseaba ingresar a las Carmelitas.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">En la primavera de 1764, presentó su solicitud al Monasterio de Santa Teresa en Florencia y fue admitida en noviembre. Tomó el nombre de Teresa Margarita del Sagrado Corazón y profesó sus votos en marzo de 1766.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">A Teresa le asignaron el papel de enfermera de la comunidad, y cuidó con ternura a las hermanas que sufrían bajo su cuidado, especialmente a aquellas que padecían enfermedades mentales. Teresa se dedicó por completo a cuidar a sus hermanas y a cultivar su sólida vida interior. Como hermana carmelita, Teresa mantuvo esa actitud de alegría que la había atraído a la Orden, a pesar de las reprimendas y el trato duro.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Teresa murió a los veintitrés años, el 11 de marzo de 1770, en medio de un brote de enfermedad en el monasterio. Siguió cuidando a otras monjas enfermas hasta su lecho de muerte. El cuerpo de Teresa, hinchado por la enfermedad, en el momento de su funeral había recuperado milagrosamente su aspecto saludable.<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px 80px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://ocarm.org/es/item/217-st-teresa-margaret-redi-ocd-virgin">Leer más</a> ...<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">+           +           +<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"> <p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">Santa Teresa Margherita Redi (OCD), vergine 1 settembre | Memoria facoltativa<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Santa Teresa Margherita Redi, OCD, era nota per essere una religiosa di grande spiritualità, con una profonda devozione alla frase “Dio è amore”. Si distingueva anche per il suo umile servizio ai malati.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Una delle ragazze che si era diplomata al collegio diversi anni prima si avvicinò a una delle insegnanti di Anna Maria per ringraziarla dell’istruzione e della formazione cristiana ricevute, proprio mentre stava per entrare nell’ordine delle Carmelitane. Anna Maria vide la gioia profonda sul volto di quella giovane donna e capì subito che anche lei desiderava entrare nell’ordine delle Carmelitane.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Nella primavera del 1764, fece domanda al Monastero di Santa Teresa a Firenze e fu ammessa a novembre. Prese il nome di Teresa Margherita del Sacro Cuore e professò i voti nel marzo del 1766.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">A Teresa fu affidato il ruolo di infermiera della comunità e si prese cura con tenerezza delle consorelle sofferenti affidate alle sue cure, in particolare di quelle affette da malattie mentali. Teresa si dedicò alla cura delle sue consorelle e alla coltivazione della sua solida vita interiore. Come suora carmelitana, Teresa mantenne quell’atteggiamento gioioso che l’aveva attirata verso l’Ordine, nonostante i rimproveri e i trattamenti severi.<p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Teresa morì all’età di ventitré anni, l’11 marzo 1770, nel bel mezzo di un’epidemia scoppiata nel monastero. Continuò a prendersi cura delle altre suore malate fino al suo letto di morte. Il corpo di Teresa, gonfio a causa della malattia, al momento del funerale era stato miracolosamente riportato alla sua forma sana.<p style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px 80px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://ocarm.org/it/item/217-st-teresa-margaret-redi-ocd-virgin">Leggi di più</a> ...<strong style="caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">+        +        + <a href="http://www.ocarm.org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; " target="_blank">www.ocarm.org</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ocarm_org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/ocarm_org</a></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"> </td></tr><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"> </td></tr></tbody></table>

135/2026: Lectio Divina (September 2026)

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:30:00 GMT

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134/2026: Celebrating at Home (22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time)

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:06:00 GMT

<table border="0" cellspacing="3" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse !important; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; word-break: keep-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><h4><img alt="CITOC News" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260825180648/8f5c7a94e3b83e9ae8d6a9ac8f80d032_citoc_header_600.png" style="clear: both; display: block; height: 315px; max-width: 100%; outline: currentcolor none medium; text-decoration: none; width: 600px;" /></h4></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><td style="color:#0a0a0a;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.3;margin-bottom:10px;margin:0;padding:0;text-align:left;"><img alt="" height="411" src="https://www.ocarm.info/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/show_img/Citoc/20260825180648/49062f45e4a8764a2946f190a40d56ea_CAH.22.2026.jpg" width="580" />Celebrating at Home: Finding True Life 22th Sunday in Ordinary Time | Mt 16: 21-27The Communications Office is closed during the month of August. So we are providing a short reflection on the Gospel each week. Have a blessed week!<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">What a contrast there is between last Sunday’s Gospel—when Peter was proclaimed the “rock” upon which the Church would be built—and this Sunday, when Jesus rebukes him for being a different kind of rock, a “stumbling block”!<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">When Jesus begins to speak of his suffering, death, and resurrection, it is something Peter cannot face: “Never, Lord!” This is exactly what Jesus feared when he compelled the disciples to keep silent about his true identity last Sunday. He was afraid they would think of him as a warrior leading a victorious uprising against the Roman occupation of Israel—the popular image of a Messiah—in Jesus’s time.<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Last week, Jesus called Peter “blessed” because of the revelation God gave him about who Jesus is. Now, Peter is “Satan” because he does not think as God does, but rather his thinking is that of men.<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Can we come to terms with having a “shepherd” king rather than a “warrior” king as our God and Savior?<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Then, Jesus begins to speak about the call to discipleship. First, it is a free choice. Discipleship is not something that can be imposed on people. Second, the disciple must learn to put God and others at the center of his or her life. This is not just a pious idea. People in true, loving relationships—especially parents—know exactly what it means to “take up their cross” and follow Jesus by performing acts of loving service every day, putting the needs of others before their own. These people save their lives by living the human life as Jesus taught and as God intended.<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Those who try to “save” their lives through power, wealth, and a comfortable life eventually lose what little life they have. No one can prevent the moment of death, when all of this is stripped away and loses its meaning. This is what the words about gaining the world and ruining one’s life mean.<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">At the end of the day, the disciple’s faithfulness, manifested in acts of love, will be rewarded.<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">What Jesus says about discipleship is a very different way of living, totally opposed to the values of modern society, where we think we are in control of our own destiny, and where life consists of accumulating wealth and living peacefully for ourselves rather than for others.+         +         + Celebrando en Casa: Encontrar la vida verdadera XXII Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario | Mt 16, 21-27La Oficina de Comunicaciones estará cerrada durante el mes de agosto. Por eso, cada semana te compartimos una breve reflexión sobre el Evangelio. Que tengas una semana llena de bendiciones.¡Qué contraste hay entre el Evangelio del domingo pasado, cuando se proclamó a Pedro como la "roca" sobre la que se edificaría la Iglesia, y este domingo cuando Jesús lo reprende por ser una roca diferente, una "piedra de tropiezo"!Cuando Jesús comienza a hablar de su sufrimiento, muerte y resurrección, es algo que Pedro no puede afrontar: «¡Ni se te ocurra, Señor!». Esto es exactamente lo que temía Jesús, cuando obligó a los discípulos a guardar silencio acerca de su verdadera identidad, el domingo pasado. Tenía miedo de que pensaran en él como un guerrero que liderase un levantamiento victorioso contra la ocupación romana en Israel -la imagen popular de un Mesías- en tiempo de Jesús.La semana pasada, Jesús proclamó a Pedro «bendito» debido a la revelación que Dios le dio de quien es Jesús. Ahora, Pedro es «Satanás» porque no piensa como Dios, sino que su pensamiento es de los hombres.¿Podemos asimilar tener un rey «pastor» en lugar de un rey «guerrero» como nuestro Dios y Salvador?Entonces, Jesús comienza a hablar sobre el llamado al discipulado. En primer lugar, es una elección libre. El discipulado no es algo que se pueda imponer a las personas. En segundo lugar, el discípulo debe aprender a poner a Dios y a los otros en el centro de su vida. Esta no es una idea piadosa. Las personas en relaciones verdaderas y amorosas, especialmente los padres, saben exactamente lo que significa «tomar su cruz» y seguir a Jesús haciendo actos de servicio amorosos todos los días, para anteponer las necesidades de los demás a las suyas. Estas personas salvan sus vidas al vivir la vida humana como Jesús enseñó y como Dios quiso.Aquellos que intentan «salvar» sus vidas mediante el poder, la riqueza y una vida cómoda, eventualmente pierden la poca vida que tienen. Nadie puede prevenir el momento de la muerte cuando todo esto se despoja y pierde sentido. Esto es lo que significan las palabras acerca de ganar el mundo y arruinar la vida.Al final del día, la fidelidad del discípulo, manifestada en hechos amorosos, será recompensada.Lo que Jesús dice sobre el discipulado es una manera muy diferente de vivir, totalmente opuesto a los valores de la sociedad moderna, pensamos que tenemos el control de nuestro destino, donde la vida consiste en acumular riquezas y vivir plácidamente para nosotros mismos en lugar de vivir para los otros.+         +         + Celebrando in Casa: Trovare la vita vera XXII Domenica del Tempo Ordinario | Mt 16: 21-27L'Ufficio Comunicazione rimane chiuso per tutto il mese di agosto. Per questo, ogni settimana ti proponiamo una breve riflessione sul Vangelo. Ti auguro una settimana piena di benedizioni.Che contrasto tra il Vangelo di domenica scorsa, quando Pietro è stato definito la “pietra” su cui sarebbe stata costruita la chiesa, e questa domenica in cui Gesù lo rimprovera per essere un tipo di pietra diverso - un “ostacolo”!Quando Gesù inizia a parlare della sua passione, morte e risurrezione, è più di quanto Pietro possa sopportare: “questo non ti accadrà mai”. Questo è esattamente ciò che Gesù temeva quando ha obbligato i discepoli al non dire nulla sulla sua vera identità nel Vangelo di domenica scorsa. Aveva paura che avrebbero pensato a lui come a un guerriero che guidava una rivolta vittoriosa contro l'occupazione romana di Israele - l'immagine popolare del Messia ai tempi di Gesù.La scorsa settimana, Gesù ha chiamato Pietro “beato” a causa della sua intuizione data da Dio su chi fosse Gesù. Ora Pietro è “Satana” perché ciò che sta mostrano non è adesso l'intuizione divina, ma il pensiero umano.Possiamo accettare di avere un re pastore invece che un re guerriero come nostro Dio e Salvatore?Gesù, dunque, comincia a parlare della chiamata all’essere discepolo. Prima di tutto, deve essere scelto liberamente. Il discepolato non è qualcosa che può essere imposto alle persone. Secondo, il discepolo deve imparare a mettere Dio e gli altri al centro della sua vita. Questa non è un'idea pia. Le persone che intessono relazioni vere e amorevoli, in particolare i genitori, sanno esattamente cosa significa “prendere la croce” e seguire Gesù mettendosi ogni giorno al servizio con amore, mettendo i bisogni degli altri davanti ai propri. Queste persone salvano le loro vite vivendo la vita umana come Gesù ha insegnato e come Dio ha inteso.Coloro che cercano di “salvare” la propria vita con il potere, la ricchezza e una vita agiata alla fine perdono la poca vita che hanno. Niente può impedire al momento della morte che tutto venga strappato via e diventi privo di significato. Ecco spiegato il significato dei versetti sul guadagnare il mondo intero e perdere la vita.Alla fine dei giorni, la fedeltà del discepolo, dimostrata nelle opere d’amore, verrà ricompensata.Quello che Gesù dice sul discepolato è un modo molto diverso di vivere e sembra totalmente opposto ai valori della società moderna in cui si pensa di avere il controllo del nostro destino; dove la vita consiste nell'accumulare ricchezze e vivere comodamente per noi stessi piuttosto che per gli altri.+         +         + Celebrando em Familia: Encontrar a verdadeira vida XXII Domingo do Tempo Comum | Mt 16: 21-27O Departamento de Comunicação fica fechado durante o mês de agosto. Por isso, vamos trazer uma breve reflexão sobre o Evangelho toda semana. Tenha uma semana abençoada.Que contraste há entre o Evangelho do domingo passado, quando Pedro foi proclamado como a "rocha" sobre a qual a Igreja seria edificada, e neste domingo, quando Jesus o repreende por ser uma rocha diferente, uma "pedra de tropeço"!Quando Jesus começa a falar de seu sofrimento, morte e ressurreição, é algo que Pedro não pode encarar: "Nem pense nisso, Senhor!" Isto é exatamente o que Jesus temia, quando Ele obrigou os discípulos a se calarem sobre sua verdadeira identidade, no último domingo. Ele tinha medo de ser considerado um guerreiro que lideraria um revolta vitoriosa contra a ocupação romana em Israel – a imagem popular de um Messias - no tempo de Jesus.Na semana passada, Jesus proclamou Pedro "abençoado" por causa da revelação que Deus lhe deu de quem é Jesus. Ora, Pedro é "Satanás" porque não pensa como Deus, mas com o pensamento dos homens. Podemos assimilar ter um rei "pastor" em vez de um rei "guerreiro" como nosso Deus e Salvador?Então, Jesus começa a falar sobre o chamado ao discipulado. Em primeiro lugar, é uma livre escolha. Discipulado não é algo que pode ser imposto às pessoas. Em segundo lugar, em vez disso, o discípulo deve aprender a colocar Deus e os outros no centro de sua vida. Isso não é uma ideia piedosa. Pessoas em relacionamentos verdadeiros e amorosos, especialmente os pais, sabem exatamente o que significa "tomar a sua cruz" e seguir Jesus fazendo obras de serviço amoroso todos os dias, para colocar as necessidades dos outros acima das suas necessidades. Essas pessoas salvam suas vidas vivendo a vida humana como Jesus ensinou e como Deus quer.Aqueles que tentam "salvar" suas vidas através do poder, riqueza e uma vida confortável, acabam perdendo a pouca vida que têm. Ninguém pode prevenir o tempo da morte quando tudo isso se despoja e perde o sentido. 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