Electoral Chapter of the Monastery of Madrid, Spain The Elective Chapter of the Carmelite Monastery of Madrid, Spain, was held 22-23 April 2013. The following were elected: Prioress:  Sr. M. Inmaculada Ochoa, O.Carm. 1st Councilor:   Sr. M. Noemí Temprano, O.Carm. 2nd Councilor:  Sr. M. Antonia Dominguez, O.Carm. 3rd Councilor:   Sr. M. Carmen Almonte, O.Carm. 4th Couniclor:   Sr. Maria del Carmen Ruiz, O.Carm. Director of Novices:  Sr. M. Brunilda Rodriguez, O. ...Continue Reading

VITAM COELO REDDIDERUNT Ortus P. Temp. P. Soll. Ord. 31-03-13 P. Marcellinus Scicluna, (Mel) 13-03-33 08-10-50 19-03-54 06-04-57 26-04-13 P. Foster Hanley, (PCM) 07-06-36 22-08-57 22-08-60 08-06-63 28-04-13 P. Victor Schembri, (Mel) 15-09-26 10-10-43 19-10-47 23-09-50 R.I.P. www.ocarm.org http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

CAUSA NOSTRAE LETITIAE Martius / Aprilis 2013 Initium Novitiatus 29-04-13 Licia Palmieri (CER), Cerreto di Sorano, Italia Professio Temporanea 19-03-13 M. Irene Angelantoj (CER), Cerreto di Sorano, Italia Professio Solemnis 07-04-13 Maria Lallane (BEJ), Beja, Portugal 28-04-13 Gabriela Bordones Herrera (ONT), Onteniente, España Ordinatio Diaconalis 21-04-13 Willy Singo Shaba (Ita-Con), Roma, Italia Ordinatio Sacerdotalis 28-02-13 Tiago Oliveira da Cruz (Flum), Salvador, Brasil 02-04-13 Pablo Fuertes Ramir ...Continue Reading

Provincial Chapter of the Province of Australia and East Timor During the Provincial Chapter of the Province of Australia and East Timor held on 22-26 April 2013 were elected: Prior Provincial:  Fr. Denis Andrew, O.Carm. First Councilor:  Fr. Paul Cahill, O.Carm. Second Councilor:  Fr. Hugh Brown, O.Carm. Third Councilor:  Fr. Sean Keefe, O.Carm. Fourth Councilor:  Fr. James Des Lauriers, O.Carm. www.ocarm.org http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org -------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

VITAM COELO REDDIDERUNT Ortus P. Temp. P. Soll. 06-04-13 Sr. María de S. José Luque Moreno, (OSU) 26-10-25 31-10-43 01-11-46 13-04-13 Sr. María Luisa Rivera Alcaide, (ANT) 27-12-19 13-06-43 07-04-47 R.I.P. www.ocarm.org http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

Second Asia-Australia-Oceania Carmelite Student friars gathering The second Asia-Australia-Oceania Carmelite student friars gathering in this sexennium was held in Malang (Indonesia) from the 4th to 10th April , 2013. Fr. Lucianus Simon Rande, O.Carm., Provincial Councillor of the Indonesian Province was the main celebrant of the opening Mass. On behalf of Fr. Ignatius Joko Purnomo, O.Carm., Indonesian Provincial, he gave an address of welcome and officially opened the gathering.  An address from Fr. Prior Gener ...Continue Reading

Meeting of newly solemnly professed friars of Europe The Prior General, Fr. Fernando Millán Romeral, O.Carm., together with the Councillor General for Europe, Fr. John Keating, O.Carm. met with the European friars who made solemn vows within the last ten years. This meeting took place at San Andres, the Carmelite University Residence and European Novitiate in Salamanca, Spain from the 4th to the 7th April 2013. This is also the place where St. John of the Cross was a student. Of the forty possible participants t ...Continue Reading

Christus resurrexit! Resurrexit vere! Alleluia! In Pascha Domini A.D. 2013 Fernando Prior Generalis Domusque Generalis Communitas Image: Krakow, Graduale de Dominicis iuxta ritum missalis Beatissimae Dei Genitricis Semperque Virginis Mariae de Monte Carmelo, 1644 ...Continue Reading

VITAM COELO REDDIDERUNT Ortus P. Temp. P. Soll. Ord. 26-01-13 P. Jos Tromp, (Neer) 08-01-41 24-08-61 24-08-64 02-09-95 26-02-13 Fr. José González Rodríguez (Cast) 22-03-21 17-09-58 15-10-61 15-03-13 P. Carmelo Cox (Flum) 18-04-22 22-01-50 21-02-53 08-12-55 26-03-13 P. Claudio Lioj (Neap) 05-06-33 25-10-51 25-10-54 14-07-57 R.I.P. www.ocarm.org http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org --------------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

Activities of the Prior General The Prior General Fr. Fernando Millán Romeral, O.Carm. from the 10th to 13th January, while on his way to the United States of America to conduct the canonical visitation of the South West Provincial Commissariat, participated in the celebrations commemorating fifty years of Carmelite presence in the Dominican Republic. On that occasion he also visited four monasteries in the country (La Vega, Santo Domingo, Santiago and Monción). Accompanied by the General Delegate for th ...Continue Reading