Celebrating at Home: A Family Formed By Forgiveness23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time | Mt 18: 15-20Chapter 18 of St Matthew’s Gospel is often referred to as the Sermon on the Church. It contains the teaching of Jesus about the life of the Christian community.Today’s reading details a procedure for dealing with differences and disputes. It follows the Parable of the Lost Sheep which is concerned with seeking out and bringing back the one who gets lost.In the same way, resolving disputes is not about being right and pun ...Continue Reading

VITAM COELO REDDIDERUNT 24-07-26 H. María Dolores Ramírez Torres (HSM) 28-02-31 12-01-88 21-03-93 02-08-26 P. Roberto (Gerardo) Bonsignore (Ital) 05-07-31 01-11-50 01-11-53  01-07-56  11-08-26 Br. David McGinnis (PCM) 17-09-55 13-06-94 01-11-97 14-08-26 P. António Maria Alves Júnior (Lus)  05-01-29 26-09-52 30-10-55  07-07-57 www.ocarm.org http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org https://twitter.com/ocarm_org ...Continue Reading

 The XXIst Ordinary General Chapter of the Hermanas Carmelitas del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús was held in MálagaThe 21st Ordinary General Chapter of the Hermanas Carmelitas del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús began on August 2 and concluded on August 22, 2026. The Chapter took place at their Motherhouse / Madre Asunción School in El Limonar (Málaga) under the theme of the Chapter Year: Anchored in the Heart of Jesus Christ, Forgers of Hope. During these three w ...Continue Reading

  *Letter from the Prior General and Resources for the 800th Anniversary of the Carmelite Formula Vitae*Dear sisters and brothers in Carmel,This year we are celebrating 800 years of papal recognition of the Carmelite Formula Vitae. This was a key moment in our early history and is an important anniversary to celebrate.Celebrating a Vital MomentBoth General Councils considered the importance of this year for the Carmelite Family at our joint meeting in March 2026 and wish to celebrate it in various wa ...Continue Reading

  *Letter from the Prior General and Resources for the 800th Anniversary of the Carmelite Formula Vitae*Dear sisters and brothers in Carmel,This year we are celebrating 800 years of papal recognition of the Carmelite Formula Vitae. This was a key moment in our early history and is an important anniversary to celebrate.Celebrating a Vital MomentBoth General Councils considered the importance of this year for the Carmelite Family at our joint meeting in March 2026 and wish to celebrate it in various wa ...Continue Reading

St. Teresa Margaret Redi, virginSeptember 1 | Optional MemorialSt. Teresa Margaret Redi, OCD., was recognized as an intensely spiritual religious with a profound devotion to the phrase "God is love." She was also noted for her humble service to the sick.One of the girls who had graduated from the boarding school several years before approached one of Anna Maria’s teachers to thank her for the education and the Christian formation, as she was entering the Carmelites. Anna Maria saw the deep joy on this young wo ...Continue Reading

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Celebrating at Home: Finding True Life22th Sunday in Ordinary Time | Mt 16: 21-27The 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!What a contrast there is between last Sunday’s Gospel—when Peter was proclaimed the “rock” upon which the Church would be built—and this Sunday, when Jesus rebukes him for being a different kind of rock, a “stumbling block”!When Jesus begins to speak of his suffering, death, and resurrection, it ...Continue Reading

Bl. Jacques Retouret, priest and martyrAugust 26 | Optional Memorial*Excerpts from the Homily of St. John Paul II at the Beatification of 110 Victims including Carmelite Jacques Retouret*/Martyrdom is a special gift of the Holy Spirit/: a gift for the entire Church. It finds its culmination in today’s liturgy of Beatification, in which we give special glory to God: “/Te martyrum candidatus laudat exercitus.”/ God, who through a solemn act of the Church—Beatification—crowns their merits, at the same time reveals the gift ...Continue Reading

St. Mary of Jesus Crucified (OCD), virginAugust 25 | Optional MemorialExcerpts from the homily of Pope Francis at the Mass of CanonizationMay 17, 2015 | St. Peter's SquareAn essential aspect of witness to the risen Lord is unity among ourselves, his disciples/, in the image of his own unity with the Father. Today too, in the Gospel, we heard Jesus’ prayer on the eve of his passion: “that they may be one, even as we are one” (Jn 17:11). From this eternal love between the Father and the Son, poured into our hearts th ...Continue Reading