Celebrating at Home: Excessive Generosity6th Sunday in Ordinary TimeIn the Jewish tradition, guidance about how to be at rights with God and neighbor is found in the Torah, the teaching contained in the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament). It is especially important for St Matthew, writing his Gospel for Jewish believers, to show that Jesus is not opposed to Jewish teachings and traditions. He has not come to abolish the Law or the Prophets, but to complete o ...Continue Reading

  Celebration of the 30th World Day for Consecrated Life on February 2nd, Feast of the Presentation of the LordPope Leo XIV celebrated Mass for World Day for Consecrated Life on February 2, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord. Preaching on Luke’s Gospel to the people assembled in St. Peter’s Basilica, the pope spoke of Simeon and Anna recognizing and proclaiming Jesus as the Messiah in the Temple. The pope pointed out that this Scripture passage speaks of two movements of love: that of God coming to save ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Vulnerable Risk-Takers5th Sunday in Ordinary TimeLast Sunday, in the ‘Beatitudes’, Jesus called his disciples to be vulnerable risk-takers in the way they lived their lives.Continuing the Sermon on the Mount this week, Jesus goes on to say that if they live this way, they will be like the salt that transforms the flavour of food and the light that transforms the darkness.Undertaking this path of transformation produces the flavour and light of good works which lift burd ...Continue Reading

 *Elective Chapter of the Rio de Janiero Province in Brazil Held January 26-30, 2026*The Carmelite Province of Fluminense gathered for its Provincial Chapter in the city of Belo Horizonte, capital of the state of Minas Gerais, from January 26 through 30, 2026, with the theme “/Gratitude that Drives, Co-responsibility that Builds/” -- a theme that springs from the concrete experience of those who recognize that God has been faithful to Carmel throughout history and continues to act in our present reality. Chri ...Continue Reading

VITAM COELO REDDIDERUNT 09-01-26 Irmã Maria Natividade da Conceição Cunha (MON) 25-01-42 08-12-75 08-12-80 www.ocarm.org http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org https://twitter.com/ocarm_org ...Continue Reading

  Prior General's Schedule for February 2026Fr. Desiderio García Martínez, O. Carm., the prior general, has the following schedule planned for the month of February 2026:February 6-13: Provincial Chapter, Province of St Thomas, India February 16-20: General Commissiat Chapter, St. Thérèse and St. Albert,                            IndiaFebruary 22-28: Provincial Chapter of the Titus Brandsma Province, & ...Continue Reading

 February  –  Febrero  –  Febbraio 2026 ENGLISH | ESPAÑOL | ITALIANODownload English: ocarm.org/en/prayer/lectiodivina Descargar Español: ocarm.org/es/prayer/lectiodivina Scarica Italiano: ocarm.org/it/prayer/lectiodivinaENGLISHLECTIO DIVINA - February 2026[*]Lectio Divina February, 2026 [Pdf][*]Lectio Divina February, 2026 [ePub][*]Lectio Divina February, 2026 [Mobi]  If you wish to receive updates on current news from the Carmelite Order, subs ...Continue Reading

 Bl. Archangela Girlani, virginJanuary 29th | Optional Memorial in the Italian Provinces)Bl. Archangela Girlani was born Elanor Girlani in 1460 at Trino, on Monte Ferrato in northern Italy to a noble family. It is written in an old manuscript that Blessed Archangela lived her religious life so intensely that, just as the monastery was entitled "Saint Mary in Paradise", she and the other nuns, even though still here on earth, lived as if already absorbed into heaven.Read more ...+   &nb ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: The Light Shines4th Sunday in Ordinary TimeLast Sunday’s Gospel introduced the beginning of Jesus’ ministry in Galilee, his call to repentance, the choice of some disciples and the spread of his fame.Now, over the next four Sundays, the church will take us on a journey through Jesus’ teaching in Chapters 5-7 of Matthew’s Gospel. These chapters form the Sermon on the Mount. Each Sunday’s Gospel builds on the one before – they are part of this first discourse in Matt ...Continue Reading

 2026 Triennial Chapter of the Carmelite Province of Pernambuco Held in JanuaryFrom January 19- 23, in the city of Camocim de São Félix/PE, Brazil, the Provincial Chapter of the Carmelite Province of Pernambuco took place, with the theme: Restored in hope, let us be one! For you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Gal 3: 28).With the presence of the Prior General, Friar Desiderio Garcia Martinez, and the Councilor for the Americas, Friar Rolf Nepomuk Willemsen, in a prayerful and fraternal atmosph ...Continue Reading