Celebrating at Home: Living the Kingdom19th Sunday in Ordinary Time*This section of St Matthew’s Gospel is about the Kingdom of God being seen in the Church when human needs are responded to with the life of God.St Matthew uses the story of Jesus approaching the disciples across the water to illustrate the confidence and trust the disciple needs to have in Christ. The story also shows how fear can erode faith and shake confidence.Read more ...[*]Celebrating At Home - 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time [P ...Continue Reading

  Carmelite Nuns in Sogliano al Rubicone Celebrate Elective ChapterThe Carmelite monastery of Santa Maria della Vita (SAR) in Sogliano al Rubicone, Italy, celebrated its triennial elective chapter on August 9, 2023. Bishop Nicolò Anselmi of the Diocese of Rimini presided.The monastery was founded ib June 26, 1992 by five nuns from the Carmelite monastery in Ravenna. It was dedicated to the Our Lady of Life on April 4, 1992. The Congregation for Religious canonically erected the monastery under the local ...Continue Reading

  +     +     ++ Welcome to the latest issue of CITOC News!  We invite you to read the 5 articles below + + Bienvenido al nuevo número de CITOC Noticias! Le invitamos a leer los 5 artículos que aparecen a continuación + + Benvenuti al nuovo numero di CITOC Notizie!  Vi invitiamo a leggere i 5 articoli qui sotto ++     +     + Photo: Alberto Palomino, O. Carm. World Youth Day | Lisbon, Portugal | August 1-6 ...Continue Reading

  Celebrating at Home: Transfigured in ChristTransfiguration of the Lord*The transfigured Jesus is shown to the disciples together with Moses and Elijah who, in Jewish tradition, represent the Law and the Prophets. In Jesus, these two great traditions reach their proper fulfilment.Being transfigured is a revolution of mind and heart driven by God’s Spirit and enabled by our open heartedness to God’s Word. When we are ‘shot through’ with the presence of God, God can be seen in, and experienc ...Continue Reading

VITAM COELO REDDIDERUNT 15-07-23 Fray Pablo Maria de la Cruz Alonso Hidalgo (ACV)  26-07-01 25-06-23 20-07-23 P. Andrea Vito Buccheri (ITA) 17-10-34 15-10-54 15-10-57 29-06-60 24-07-23 P. Francesco Campagna (ITA) 25-01-48 25-09-75 11-11-78 29-12-79 26-07-23 P. Bernardino Pianu (ITA) 05-11-37 16-10-58 13-01-63 11-07-65 www.ocarm.org http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org https://twitt ...Continue Reading

  *August - Agosto - Agosto 2023*ENGLISH | 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 2023[*]Lectio Divina August 2023 [PDF] Download here[*]Lectio Divina August 2023 [ePub] Download here[*]Lectio Divina August 2023 [Mobi] Download here.     .     .ESPA&N ...Continue Reading

*August - Agosto - Agosto 2023* ENGLISH | ESPAÑOL | ITALIANO Download English: ocarm.org/en/prayer/lectiodivina Descargar Español: ocarm.org/es/prayer/lectiodivina Scarica Italiano: ocarm.org/it/prayer/lectiodivina .     .     . ENGLISH LECTIO DIVINA - August 2023 [*]Lectio Divina August 2023 [PDF] Download here [*]Lectio Divina August 2023 [ePub] Download here [*]Lectio Divina August 2023 [Mobi] Download here .     .     ...Continue Reading

  Celebrating at Home: Close Encounters with the Kingdom of God17th Sunday in Ordinary Time*In 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.Read more ...[*]Celebrating At Home - 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time [PDF][*]Celebrating At Home - 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time [ePub].     .      .& ...Continue Reading

 St. Titus Brandsma, priest and martyrJuly 27 | Obligatory Memorial (Feast: Ger, Phil, Del Colombia)A noted writer and journalist, in 1935, St. Titus was appointed adviser to the Dutch bishops for Catholic journalists. In the period leading up to and during the Nazi occupation in the Netherlands, he argued passionately against the National Socialist ideology, basing his stand on the Gospels. He continually defended the right to freedom in education and for a free the Catholic Press. As a result, he was imprisoned.H ...Continue Reading

Fray Pablo Ma. de la Cruz Alonzo Hidalgo, O. Carm. Young Spanish Carmelite Dies Weeks After Profession Less than a month after his solemn profession “in articulo mortis” (at the point of death), 21-year-old Carmelite Pablo Ma. de la Cruz Alonzo Hidalgo died. He died on July 15, the eve of the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. The prior provincial of the Province of Aragón, Castilla, and Valencia (ACV), Salvador Villota Herrero, announced the young Carmelites death. Fr. Salvador had received the solemn profes ...Continue Reading