Celebrating at Home: Going the Extra Mile7th Sunday in Ordinary Ttime*Vengeance, retaliation and violence seem part and parcel of the human experience. When we are hurt our first instinct is often to strike back, to take revenge on the one who hurt us - ‘pay back’, as we call it.In continuing his Sermon on the Mount in today’s Gospel, Jesus calls his disciples to a new way of handling violence and unjust treatment - not with revenge and retaliation, but with open-hearted generosity and forgiveness.Read m ...Continue Reading

2023 Profession ceremony, Commissary of St. Thérèse and St. Albert of Jerusalem (India) 2023 Ceremonia de Profesión, Comisario de Santa Teresa y San Alberto de Jerusalén (India) 2023 Cerimonia di professione, Commissario di Santa Teresa e Sant'Alberto di Gerusalemme (India)  CAUSA NOSTRAE LAETITIAE*INITIUM NOVITIATUS*01-02-2023  Peter Lima (STSA)  Kannur, Kerala, India 01-02-2023  Brandsma Banty Parichha (STSA)  Kannur, Kerala, India 01-02-2023  Norbert Rohan Pal ...Continue Reading

  Provincial Chapter of the St. Thomas Province in IndiaThe members of the Province of St. Thomas in India held their 6th chapter from February 5-10, 2023, in Thrissur, Kerala, in India.It was an open chapter attended by the prior general of the Order, Miceal O'Neill, Robert Thomas Puthussery, the General Councilor for Asia-Australia-Oceania, and 66 members of the province working in India and abroad."Go Out and Stand on the Mountain Before the Lord" (1Kg 19:11) was the theme of the Chapter.The Provi ...Continue Reading

  Elective Chapter of the Monastery of Sagrado Corazón y San Titus Brandsma en Córdoba, SpainOn February 7, the Monastery Sagrado Corazón y San Titus Brandsma, in Córdoba, Spain, held its elective chapter.This monastery was founded in 1985 by the Federation "Mater et Decor Carmeli" of the Betica Province of Spain. From its foundation it is intended to be the Federal House, providing a common formation program at the service of all the monasteries of the Federation. It is t ...Continue Reading

  Celebrating at Home: Excessive Generosity6th Sunday in Ordinary Ttime*In the Jewish tradition, guidance about how to be at rights with God and neighbor is found in the Torah, the teaching contained in the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament). It is especially important for St Matthew, writing his Gospel for Jewish believers, to show that Jesus is not opposed to Jewish teachings and traditions. He has not come to abolish the Law or the Prophets, but to complete or fulfill them.Read more ...Continue Reading

  *Spirituality in a Post-Truth Society**Free Online Seminar | February 10-11, 2023 | Via Zoom*Speaker: André P. DeBattistaIn 2016, the Oxford Dictionary chose ‘post-truth’ as its international word of the year. It defined it as an adjective “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Since then, this phrase has often been used in relation to populist politics. Nonetheless, the same descripti ...Continue Reading

VITAM COELO REDDIDERUNT Ortus P. Temp P. Soll. Ord. 31-12-22 Sr. Alberta della Croce Diana (CER) 15-06-32 18-08-73 26-03-90 13-01-23 Br. Gregorius Mitan (Indo-E) 11-12-00 20-07-22 16-01-23 Sr. Luigia di Maria Bambina Ducci (VET) 05-05-31 05-09-55 14-10-84 21-01-23 Fr. James Mueller (PCM) 24-03-44 14-06-82 25-05-85 24-05-69 02-02-23 Sr. Thérèse Nepplen ...Continue Reading

  Celebrating at Home: Vulnerable Risk-Takers5th Sunday in Ordinary Ttime*Continuing the Sermon on the Mount this week, Jesus goes on to say that if they live this way, they will be like the salt that transforms the flavor of food and the light that transforms the darkness.Undertaking this path of transformation produces the flavor and light of good works which lift burdens from our fellow human beings, not for the praise of the disciple but for the praise to God. Read more ...[*]Celebrating At Home - 5th S ...Continue Reading

Bl. Candelaria of St. Joseph, virginFebruary 1stOn February 1, the Carmelite Order celebrates Blessed Candelaria. The day is celebrated as an optional memorial in Latin America.Bl Candelaria was born Susana Paz-Castillo Ramírez in 1863. She enthusiastically welcomed the call of God to holiness, and since her youth, stood out in practicing living and effective charity, with which she cared for, consoled and healed the sick and wounded that strife had left on the streets of her birth city.She began the foundation o ...Continue Reading

  *February - Febrero - Febbraio 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 - February 2023[*]Lectio Divina February 2023 [PDF] Download here[*]Lectio Divina February 2023 [ePub] Download here[*]Lectio Divina February 2023 [Mobi] Download here.     .     ...Continue Reading