Celebrating at Home: God Enfleshed in UsMost Holy Trinity Sunday*A quick look at the readings for today shows very clearly that the Feast of the Trinity is a celebration of God's love for humankind. It is a day for reflecting on who God is, not for trying to figure out how there can be three persons in one God.The Church’s focus today is on experience, not theology.In intellectual terms, God remains a mystery. For people of faith, God is known not by the mind, but by the heart. That is what spirituality and m ...Continue Reading

VITAM COELO REDDIDERUNT 09-05-23 Sr. Ma Carmela of the Child Jesus Cayetano Necodino (TAN) 25-03-71 16-07-00 20-07-05 23-05-23 Fr. Frank O'Gara (Hib) 05-08-33 15-09-57 15-10-60 14-07-63 23-05-23 Fr. Donald Buggert (PCM) 01-08-40 15-08-60 05-02-64 28-05-66 www.ocarm.org http://www.facebook.com/ocarm.org https://twitter.com/ocarm_org ...Continue Reading

  +     +     ++ Welcome to the latest issue of CITOC News!  We invite you to read the 3 articles below + + Bienvenido al nuevo número de CITOC Noticias! Le invitamos a leer los 3 artículos que aparecen a continuación + + Benvenuti al nuovo numero di CITOC Notizie!  Vi invitiamo a leggere i 3 articoli qui sotto ++     +     + European Carmelite Youth Committee Holds First "In Person" MeetingAfter havi ...Continue Reading

 Portrait of the Prophet Elisha (19th century), Venice.Andrea Papaccio Napoletano, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Profeta_Eliseo.jpg *June - Junio - Giugno 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 - June 2023[*]Lectio Divina June 2023 [PDF] Download here[*]Le ...Continue Reading

 Celebrating at Home: Sent to Be God's Love in the WorldPentecost Sunday*At Pentecost we celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit to the first group of Christian believers - the disciples. This gift of the Holy Spirit is the culmination of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.The gifting of the Holy Spirit is a continuing event in the life of every believing person and, therefore, in every age of human history. The Holy Spirit is the presence of God with us - the enduring way in which Jesus remains present in the ...Continue Reading

  +     +     ++ Welcome to the latest issue of CITOC News!  We invite you to read the 2 articles below + + Bienvenido al nuevo número de CITOC Noticias! Le invitamos a leer los 2 artículos que aparecen a continuación + + Benvenuti al nuovo numero di CITOC Notizie!  Vi invitiamo a leggere i 2 articoli qui sotto ++     +     + Appreciation of the Ecclesiastical Heritage Days - 2023 The Opening of the Genera ...Continue Reading

St. Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, virginMay 25 - FeastFrom her childhood, she had a deep sense of the presence of God, a great love for the Eucharist and a longing to live a penitential life.In addition to her deep spiritual life, she observed conscientiously her religious vows and led a hidden life of prayer and self denial. She was filled with a burning desire for the renewal of the Church: keenly aware of the urgent need for reform, yearning to see it spread, and offering herself so that the "anointed ones" (i. ...Continue Reading

 CAUSA NOSTRAE LAETITIAE  *PROFESSIO *SOLEMNIS*20-03-23  José Lucas do Nascimento (Flum) Roma, Italia19-05-23  Francisco Javier Giraldes (ACV-Argentina) Lomas de Zamora, ArgentinaORDINATIO DIACONALIS*29-04-23  Ecson Gabriel Ramírez Alvárez (Baet) Jalí, Venezuela*ORDINATIO *SACERDOTALIS*16-04-23  Jefferson Ferreira Sousa (Flum)  São Paolo, Brasile 16-04-23  Lucas de Melo Pires (Flum)  São Paolo, Brasile 29-04-23  Oreste Maria Manz ...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 +  +     +     +  *Carmelite Youth Day Part of World Youth Day Celebrations in Lisbon*Today, May ...Continue Reading

  57th World Day of Social Communications - 2023Speaking with the Heart: "The Truth in Love"After having reflected in past years on the verbs “to go and see” and “to listen” as conditions for good communication, with this Message for the LVII World Day of Social Communications, I would like to focus on “speaking with the heart”. It is the heart that spurred us to go, to see and to listen, and it is the heart that moves us towards an open and welcoming way of communicating. Once we have practiced ...Continue Reading