+     +     ++ 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 Monastery of  Santa Teresa de Jesús in Santo Domingo Celeb ...Continue Reading

CAUSA NOSTRAE LAETITIAE *PROFESSIO TEMPORANEA* 02-07-22  Joseph Caleb Maingi (Ken) Nkoroi, Kenya 02-07-22  Michael Reagan Onyango Agutu (Ken) Nkoroi, Kenya 02-07-22  Thomas Mwanzia Muange (Ken) Nkoroi, Kenya 08-09-22  Mary Veronica Katei of the Holy Spirit (MAC) 08-09-22  Mary Virginia Ndungwa of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (MAC) 01-10-22  Mercedes Mediatrix of Jesus Divine Master Justo (BUR) Burgos, Philippines 01-10-22  Teresita of Good Shepherd Nguyen Thanh Hao (BUR) Burgos, Philipp ...Continue Reading

Elective Chapter of the Monastery Monte Carmelo in Vetralla, Italy The elective chapter of the Monte Carmelo Monastery in Vetralla, Italy, took place on October 15, 2022. The monastery was founded in 1669 by Servant of God Benedetto Baldi with Carmelite nuns from Rome, commonly called Le Barberine. The original monastery was located in a medieval castle, but this was completely destroyed during World War II. Mother Maria Angelica di Gesù secured a new location with the help of Cardinal Domenico Tardini, Vatica ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: We've All Met Them! 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time* We’ve all met them: people who only seem to be able to bolster their self-image by putting everyone else down. We meet such a character in the Pharisee in the Gospel for this Sunday.  Like the Pharisee in this week’s Gospel, we can sometimes see religion as a set of personal rituals, actions and prayers that cause us to think we have been faithful to God’s calling because we have done this or that. Spirituality, however, is about practising ...Continue Reading

  St. Teresa of Avila, Virgin and Doctor of the ChurchOctober 15 | FeastOctober 15th is the feast of St. Teresa of Avila or Teresa of Jesus. We join with our Discalced brothers and sisters in celebrating the life of this remarkable Carmelite. On March 12, 2022, we celebrated the 400th anniversary of the canonization of St. Teresa of Avila. Perhaps there has never been a canonization celebration at the Vatican matching the one held on March 12, 1622!_Read more from ocarm.org_Read St. Teresa's bio hereRecommende ...Continue Reading

  Celebrating at Home: Don't Give Up!29th Sunday of Ordinary Time*Jesus tells this story of a persistent widow who wins the day against an unjust judge. St Luke says that the story is “about the need to pray continually and never lose heart.” God is not like the unjust judge, who delays in answering and finally gives in only when threatened. God will hear and answer the persistent cry of his people. We, too, can be tempted to lose heart as we live in the midst of the evils of our own day. When will there ...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 ++     +     + Relic of St. Titus Brandsma Placed in Rome's Sanctuary of New MartyrsThe General ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: An Invitation for All 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time* A major theme in St Luke’s Gospel is that the message of Jesus is for all: men and women, rich and poor, old and young, healthy and sick, gentile and Jew. No one is excluded. It is no accident that the one grateful leper in this week’s Gospel is not a Jew but a Samaritan – an outsider, excluded by race, religion and his illness. He joins the others in asking a Jewish Rabbi for mercy. Read more .... [*]Celebrating At Home - 28th Sunday in ...Continue Reading

 Elective Chapter of the Monastery of the Anunciación in Porlamar (Isla de Margarita), Venezuela The elective chapter of the Monastery de la Anunciación in Porlamar, Venezuela, took place on September 23, 2022. The monastery was founded on January 7, 1983, by four nuns from the Barcelona monastery, one from Tarrega and one from Vilafranca del Penedés. Permission had been obtain from the Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes on November 18, 1982. The monastery now has 7 nuns with thr ...Continue Reading

 Elective Chapter of the Monastery of the Purísima Concepción in Utrera (Seville) Spain The elective chapter of the Monastery of the Purísima Concepción in Utrera, Spain, took place on September 28-29, 2022. The monastery was founded in 1580 by the nuns of the Ecija monastery. In 1956, nuns from the Utrera monastery founded a monastery in Kakamega, Kenya. Although that monastery closed, seven sisters left to found a new community in Machakos, Kenya, in 1999.The results of the elective ch ...Continue Reading