VITAM COELO REDDIDERUNT 18-07-25 Br. Henny Leemreize (Neer) 05-03-35 14-01-68 20-05-71 04-08-25 R. Bernardus Soedarmodjo (Indo) 20-08-30 15-08-61 15-08-64 26-07-67 07-08-25 Fr. Myron Judy (PCM) 29-06-37 22-08-57 22-08-60 18-08-63 21-08-25 Fr. James (Jerome) Watt (Aust-TL) 16-02-36 10-03-54 05-03-57 26-07-59 30-08-25 Br. Munashe Doctor Chimwamuchere (Hib-Zim)   29-09-02 28-06-2025 www.ocarm.org http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org ht ...Continue Reading

 Celebrating at Home: Invitation to Dinner22nd Sunday in Ordinary TimeIt’s no accident that the Gospels contain many instances of shared meals, weddings feasts and miraculous feeding. In the Scriptures, meals always have something to do with the great meal – the eternal wedding feast.In this Gospel episode, Jesus has been invited to a meal at the home of a leading Pharisee. Luke tells us that they watched Jesus closely. No doubt, they are trying to make up their minds about him and his teaching.Read more ...   ...Continue Reading

 September  –  Septiembre – Settembre 2025 ENGLISH | ESPAÑOL | ITALIANODownload English: ocarm.org/en/prayer/lectiodivina Descargar Español: ocarm.org/es/prayer/lectiodivina Scarica Italiano: ocarm.org/it/prayer/lectiodivinaENGLISHLECTIO DIVINA - September 2025[*]Lectio Divina September, 2025 [Pdf] (831 KB)[*]Lectio Divina September, 2025 [ePub] (366 KB)[*]Lectio Divina September, 2025 [Mobi] (258 KB)  If you wish to receive updates on current news from the ...Continue Reading

Bl. Jacques Retouret, priest and martyrAugust 26 | Optional MemorialBl. Jacques Retouret was born at Limoges in France on 15th September 1746 to a merchant family. He was a serious young man, a lover of books and greatly gifted. After ordination, his zeal and learning were widely admired and large crowds of people were attracted by his way of preaching. Like the majority of his fellow clergy, Jacques refused to accept the civil law, unilaterally introduced by the state, which decreed, among other things, the electi ...Continue Reading

St. Mary of Jesus Crucified (OCD), virginAugust 25 | Optional MemorialMariam Baouardy was born at Abellin in Galilee on 5th January 1846 to very poor parents who were good living and devoted Greek-rite Catholics. She was left an orphan after the death of her parents at only three years of age when, together with her brother Paul, she was entrusted to the care of an uncle,who had moved to Alexandria in Egypt a few years earlier. She died on 26th August 1878 at Bethlehem from a cancer which she had contracted after a ...Continue Reading

 Celebrating at Home: The Narrow Door21st Sunday in Ordinary TimeIt is a horrible feeling to find yourself locked out of home. It can instil panic. What will I do now? It is even worse if those inside won’t let you in, or even recognise you. Worse still if the house is full of strangers.There is no mistaking the sense of warning in this passage of Luke’s Gospel.Over the last few weeks, the gospel has presented Jesus on the journey to Jerusalem and his teaching about how to live our lives as disciples and the hard c ...Continue Reading

 CAUSA NOSTRAE LAETITIAEINITIUM NOVITIATUS*19-07-25 Christopher Castañeda (PCM) Tlalpan, CDMX, Mexico19-07-25  Brandon Pals (PCM) Tlalpan, CDMX, Mexico19-07-25  Walter Vladimir Díaz Romero (PCM) Tlalpan, CDMX, Mexico19-07-25  Oscar Alejandro Méndez López (PCM) Tlalpan, CDMX, Mexico19-07-25  Hugo Alexander Ramírez García (PCM) Tlalpan, CDMX, Mexico19-07-25  Nick Jeffery (PCM) Tlalpan, CDMX, MexicoPROFESSIO TEMPORANEA*15-07- ...Continue Reading

 Celebrating at Home: The Prophet/s Anguish20th Sunday in Ordinary TimeSometimes we can be overwhelmed by life. Feelings of fear, uncertainty and anxiety bubble away beneath the surface. Sometimes, those feelings reach the surface in an explosion of words and actions.In this Gospel passage we encounter the startling image of Jesus in distress and anguish over his mission and what he is yet to face. Following from last Sunday’s Gospel, the disciple is called not only to stand ready and stay faithful to his empl ...Continue Reading

Bl. Angelus Augustine Mazzinghi, priestAugust 17 | Optional MemorialThe year of birth of Bl. Angelus Mazzinghi in Florence, Italy, or nearby, is unknown but it was certainly before 1386.A lector in theology, he was particularly noted for his preaching of the word of God. He died in Florence in 1438.Read more of his biography ...   From the Institution of the First MonksLove Your Neighbor as YourselfThe Lord says, "The man who hears my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me." ...Continue Reading

 Carmelite Monastery "Flos Carmeli" in Jaboticabal, Brazil  Celebrates Elective ChapterOn July 22-31, 2025, the Carmelite nuns of the "Flos Carmeli" in Jaboticabal, Brazil, held their triennial chapter.The monastery was founded in 1948 by nuns from the Elzendaal monasteries of Boxmeer and Heerlen. Carmelite bishop Paulinus Gabriel Bueno Couto, coadjutor bishop of the same diocese, worked to establish this monastery. In 1991, a daughter monastery was founded in the town of Paranavaí.& ...Continue Reading