Order's Communications Directors to Meet in RomeThe directors of communications programs in each of the Carmelite Order’s provinces, delegations, and commissaries have been invited to participate in six days of presentations and discussions in Rome from January 22 through 27.The group will first participate in a biennial conference at the Pontifical University of Santa Croce. Entitled Communication and Evangelization: Context, Attitudes, and Experiences, the conference is focused on questions raised abo ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Doing Good in the Name of Jesus26th Sunday in Ordinary TimeThe disciples are on a steep learning curve as Jesus instructs them about what true discipleship is all about. In this Sunday’s Gospel, when they report that they tried to stop someone casting out devils in Jesus’ name just because ‘he was not one of us’, they probably expected praise from Jesus. Instead, they got a rebuke.True discipleship is not about holding the mystery of the Kingdom to our self, to dispense as we see fit, deciding who m ...Continue Reading

  +       +       ++ Welcome to the latest issue of CITOC News!  We invite you to read the 4 articles below + + Bienvenido al nuevo número de CITOC Noticias! Le invitamos a leer los 4 artículos que aparecen a continuación + + Benvenuti al nuovo numero di CITOC Notizie!  Vi invitiamo a leggere i 4 articoli qui sotto ++       +       +  A Carmelite Paris ...Continue Reading

 Triennial Chapter of the Carmelite Nuns of Carpineto Romano Held The Elective Chapter of the Carmelite Monastery of St. Ann in Carpineto Romano was held on September 21, 2024, the feast of St. Matthew, Apostle.The monastery was founded in April 1979 with nuns from the monastery of Aesinati. It was named after St. Ann. It was first located in the rectory of St. John the Evangelist parish. It was officially approved on December 11, 1985 by the Congregations and the bishop made it official on March 19, 1986. In 1992 ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Becoming A Child25th Sunday in Ordinary TimeToday’s readings continue last Sunday’s themes of Jesus as the ‘suffering servant’ and the nature of authentic discipleship.On the road through Galilee Jesus continues to instruct the disciples that he will suffer and die and rise again, but the disciples seem very slow to understand and are too afraid to ask him about it.Using a little child as an example Jesus tells the disciples that real leadership is about service and giving without expecting anything ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Becoming A Child25th Sunday in Ordinary TimeToday’s readings continue last Sunday’s themes of Jesus as the ‘suffering servant’ and the nature of authentic discipleship.On the road through Galilee Jesus continues to instruct the disciples that he will suffer and die and rise again, but the disciples seem very slow to understand and are too afraid to ask him about it.Using a little child as an example Jesus tells the disciples that real leadership is about service and giving without expecting anything ...Continue Reading

Zimbabwean CommissaryCAUSA NOSTRAE LAETITIAEINITIUM NOVITIATUS* 11-08-24  Paulus Bonari Ndundu  (Indo-Est) Maumere, Indonesia 11-08-24  Romanus Stanis Lewar  (Indo-Est) Maumere, Indonesia 11-08-24  Gregorius Dua  (Indo-Est) Maumere, Indonesia 11-08-24  Fransiskus Xaverius Esdu Maghu  (Indo-Est) Maumere, Indonesia 11-08-24  Ewaldus Sudirman  (Indo-Est) Maumere, Indonesia 11-08-24  Yohanes Aristo Gedo  (Indo-Est) Maumere, Indonesia 11-08-24  Kasimirus Nipa& ...Continue Reading

St. Albert of Jerusalem, bishop and lawgiver September 17 | Feast In 1205, Albert was appointed Patriarch of Jerusalem and a little later nominated Papal Legate for the ecclesiastical province of Jerusalem. He arrived in Palestine early in 1206 and lived in Acre because, at that time, Jerusalem was occupied by the Saracens.  At some point between 1206 and 1214, Albert was approached by the hermits gathered on Mount Carmel, "near the font of Elijah," and asked to set down their way of life in the form o ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Who Am I?24th Sunday in Ordinary TimeThis Sunday’s Gospel teaches us how to find our true identity.Both the ‘people’ and Peter have ideas about who Jesus is. For the people he is John the Baptist, Elijah or one of the prophets returned from the dead. For Peter, Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah. But what happens next reveals that Peter and Jesus have very different ideas about who this Messiah is.Though Peter understands correctly that Jesus is the Messiah, he misunderstands the kind of Messiah that ...Continue Reading

Prior General's Schedule for September 2024Fr. Míċeál O'Neill, the prior general, has the following schedule planned for the month of September 2024:September 1 - 14:  Canonical Visitation of PolandSeptember 16 - 18:  Congress for Lay Carmelites -- RomeSeptember 19 - 21:  Provincial Chapter (Part 2) -- MaltaSeptember 23 - 30:  General Council Plenary Session -- Rome+           +           ...Continue Reading