Celebrating at Home: Live the Kingdom19th Sunday in Ordinary Time | Mt 14: 22-33The 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!Trust is an essential element in the formation of faith. This section of the Gospel of Saint Matthew deals with the Kingdom of God, which is manifested in the Church when human needs are met in accordance with God’s way of life.Jesus is forming the disciples’ faith and helping them understand tha ...Continue Reading

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (OCD), virgin and martyrAugust 9 | Memorial (Feast in the provinces of Europe: Patron of Europe)Selection from the Homily of St. Pope John Paul II for the Canonization of Edith SteinBecause she was Jewish, Edith Stein was taken with her sister Rosa and many other Catholic Jews from the Netherlands to the concentration camp in Auschwitz, where she died with them in the gas chambers. Today we remember them all with deep respect. A few days before her deportation, the woman relig ...Continue Reading

St. Albert of Trapani, priestAugust 7 | FeastHide Yourself by the Brook Cherith From the Book of the Institution of the First MonksThe word of the Lord came to Elijah saying: Depart from here and go eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith near the Jordan, and there you will drink from the brook. Now these salutary commands which the Holy Spirit prompted Elijah to obey, and this promise of good things which he was moved to desire, ought to be weighed word by word with the greatest care by us, monks and soli ...Continue Reading

VITAM COELO REDDIDERUNT 13-05-26 Frei Jerônimo K. Brodka (Ger-Par) 31-12-35 08-09-59 08-09-62  10-03-63  17-07-26 Fr Andrzej Henryk Zonko (Pol) 01-01-35 31-08-53 11-11-56  24-02-61 22-07-26 Fr Bernard (Marius) Dawson (Aus-TL) 14-04-34 11-02-55 07-03-58  06-01-61 www.ocarm.org http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org https://twitter.com/ocarm_org ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: The Kingdom of God in Everyday Life18th Sunday in Ordinary TimeThis week’s Gospel is the beginning of a new section of St Matthew’s Gospel which talks about the Kingdom of God on earth and the Church as a visible sign of the Kingdom.The Kingdom is found where human beings are. It is deeply enfolded and immersed in the world of human experience: hunger, fear, disease, the sound of sheer silence, celebration, joy, hope, forgiveness, mercy, justice, in hearing and keeping the word of God. The kingdom i ...Continue Reading

 August  –  Agosto  –  Agosto 2026ENGLISH | ESPAÑOL | ITALIANODownload English: ocarm.org/en/prayer/lectiodivina Descargar Español: ocarm.org/es/prayer/lectiodivina Scarica Italiano: ocarm.org/it/prayer/lectiodivina ENGLISHLECTIO DIVINA - August 2026[*]Lectio Divina August, 2026 [Pdf][*]Lectio Divina August, 2026 [ePub][*]Lectio Divina August, 2026 [Mobi] If you wish to receive updates on current news from the Carmelite Order, subscribe to CITOC News at o ...Continue Reading

St. Titus Brandsma, priest and martyrJuly 27 | Obligatory Memorial (Feast: Ger, Phil, Del Colombia)From the Homily at the Beatification Mass of Titus BrandsmaNovember 3, 19855. No barrier could halt the surge of charity that animated the great Carmelite. It is love, once again, that explains the dedication with which he promoted the ecumenical movement, in an attitude of constant fidelity to the Church and total loyalty toward members of other denominations. Struck by such a luminous witness to evangelical consistency, ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Close Encounters with the Kingdom of God17th Sunday in Ordinary TimeIn the Gospel, Jesus compares the Kingdom to treasure hidden in a field, to a merchant on the lookout for fine pearls and to a fisherman’s dragnet which brings in a very mixed catch. The point of the parables is the behavior of the people in them.In the first two parables the joy and delight of those who find (experience) the Kingdom is obvious. It is so strong that nothing is spared in order to posses the Kingdom. The pur ...Continue Reading

Blessed John Soreth, priestJuly 24 | MemorialImportant to the life of the Carmelite Order was the foundation of female monasteries by Blessed John Soreth. As soon as he was elected prior general on November 1, 1451, Soreth himself affiliated the beguinage of Ten Elsen near Geldern in 1452, confirming it the following year by appealing to the papal bull Cum nulla (October 7, 1452), with which Pope Nicholas V recognized the Carmelites' right to have female monasteries like other mendicant orders.Soreth ...Continue Reading

  The Provincial Commissariat of Zimbabwe Celebrates 80 Years During 2026The Carmelites in Zimbabwe are celebrating 80 years of Carmelite presence in that country during 2026. Adopting the theme “Rooted in Faith: Growing in Hope: 80 Years of Carmelite Presence in Zimbabwe,” the celebrations will be various and many throughout the year. The Commissary Provincial, Shelton Zimondi, challenged that the jubilee not be a mere reflection on the past but “a look to the future with hope and confidence. Our hope is ...Continue Reading