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*The General Congregation 2011 is beginning* The General Congregation, which brings together the General Council, Prior Provincials, Commissaries General and Provincial, General Delegates and Presidents of the Regions will take place in the Mount Carmel Spiritual Centre, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, from 5th to 16th of September 2011. The theme of the meeting will be: *“Qualiter respondendum sit quaerentibus (Rubrica Prima) – Carmel's Mission in the Church".* The principal speakers will be Fr. Richard Rohr ...Continue Reading

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*CAUSA NOSTRAE LETITIAE* *Augustus 2011* *Professio Temporanea* 16-07-11 Teresa Mathias Mbenge (KAL), Kalimoni 16-07-11 Elizabeth Musuvi Ndinda (KAL), Kalimoni 17-07-11 Patrick Kitaka Musyimi (Ken), Nairobi 17-07-11 Denis Omae Nchore (Ken), Nairobi 27-08-11 Ernest Mbele (GerI-Cam), Yaounde 27-08-11 Wilfried Mbida Medock (GerI-Cam), Yaounde 27-08-11 Bernard Thiery Bessala Emgoulou (GerI-Cam), Yaounde *Professio Solemnis* 27-07-11 Eder Antonio González Morelo (Col), Bogotá 20-08-11 David Semmens ...Continue Reading

*5th Carmelite Communication Day event in the Philippines* On 24 August 2011 the Titus Brandsma Media Center, Manila, and the Center for Social and Pastoral Communications (the media ministries of the Order of Carmelites in the Philippines) held a successful 5th Carmelite Communication Day event. About 60 people attended the event from of religious orders/congregations, schools and media institutions. This year the theme focused on “the impact of social medial and network gaming in the formation of youth”. In hi ...Continue Reading

*Now Website of the General Congregation 2011 available* A website containing information about the forthcoming General Congregation in Nigara Falls, Canada, 5-16 September, is now available. The 2011 General Congregation will focus on the theme: “Qualiter respondendum sit quaerentibus (Rubrica Prima) – Carmel's Mission in the Church". All members of the Carmelite Family are invited to visit the site at: http://ocarm.org/congen2011/ www.ocarm.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

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*World Youth Day in Madrid, 2011* Just over 500 young people from Carmelite communities around the world were among the enormous crowd who attended the World Youth Day in Madrid. The special Carmelite Day on the 17th August was a wonderful occasion with about twenty countries represented. The day, which was organized by members of the General Curia and the Spanish Provinces, saw the presence of the Prior General, Fr. Fernando Millan Romeral, O.Carm. He invited all our participants to read a special letter he had writ ...Continue Reading

*A "Diplomatic Summer" in the Carmelite Curia* On the 6th of July, the Assistant Ambassador and person in charge of the Political Office of the German Embassy to the Holy See, Dr. Bernhard Schlagheck, invited the Vice-Prior General, Fr. Christian Körner, O.Carm., to a working lunch in order to hear about the presence of the Carmelite Order in the world and about the central administration of the Order in Rome. On the 11th of July Fr. John Keating, O.Carm., Councilor General for Europe was invited by t ...Continue Reading

*Activities of the Prior General* From the 4th to the 6th of July, the Prior General, Fr. Fernando Millán Romeral, O.Carm., took part in the 17th Meeting of the Carmelite Family in the Iberian Region which took place in Tarrasa (Barcelona, Spain) and this year was centred on the figure of Fr.. Bartolomé F. M. Xiberta. The Prior General gave two conferences on the theological profile of this great Carmelite of the 20th century. There was also an intervention by the diocesan priest Josep M. Manresa w ...Continue Reading