The Prior General's 2025 Christmas Greeting to the Carmelite FamilyDear brothers and sisters of the Carmelite Family: I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in 2026! May the Child Jesus fill you with his blessings and grant you peace.      Read more ...+           +           + Christmas Greetings from Carmel Around the WorldWe share some videos sent in from Carmel ...Continue Reading

  The Prior General's 2025 Christmas Greeting to the Carmelite FamilyDear brothers and sisters of the Carmelite Family: I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in 2026! May the Child Jesus fill you with his blessings and grant you peace.      Read more ...+           +           + Christmas Greetings from Carmel Around the WorldWe share some videos sent in from Carmel ...Continue Reading

  General Council Names New General Delegate for the Carmelite NunsThe General Council has appointed Fr. Francisco Daza Valverde of the Bética Province (Spain) of the Most Holy Name of Mary as Delegate to the Nuns. The Prior General and his Council thank Fr. Francisco for his willingness to serve the Order and will keep him in their prayers.Read more ...+           +           + El Consejo General no ...Continue Reading

  General Council Names New General Delegate for the Carmelite NunsThe General Council has appointed Fr. Francisco Daza Valverde of the Bética Province (Spain) of the Most Holy Name of Mary as Delegate to the Nuns. The Prior General and his Council thank Fr. Francisco for his willingness to serve the Order and will keep him in their prayers.Read more ...+           +           + El Consejo General no ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: The Promise Fulfilled4th Sunday of AdventThe great Christmas feast is almost here. As always in Advent, what is promised in the first reading is brought to fulfilment in the Gospel reading. We began Advent with the cry, ‘Come, Lord Jesus’. We will end it with the joyful shout, ‘God is with us!’Our Advent journey has called us to: stay awake to the coming of God, prepare ourselves to receive the Lord, rejoice that he is not afraid to make his home with us, and to receive him with ...Continue Reading

CAUSA NOSTRAE LAETITIAEINITIUM NOVITIATUS*02-12-25  Erçio Manuel Freitas (Aust-TL) Hera, Timor-Leste02-12-25  João Martinho Falo (Aust-TL) Hera, Timor-Leste02-12-25  Celestino Exposto (Aust-TL) Hera, Timor-Leste02-12-25  Ricardo Carvalho Saldanha (Aust-TL) Hera, Timor-Leste02-12-25  Lorenço Colo (Aust-TL) Hera, Timor-Leste02-12-25  Zeferino José Carvalho (Aust-TL) Hera, Timor-Leste02-12-25  Domingos Do ...Continue Reading

  The General Council Names a New Secretary GeneralThe General Council has appointed the Rev. Giampiero Molinari of the Italian Province of the Carmelites of St. Elijah the Prophet, St. Albert of Trapani, and St. Andrew Corsini as Secretary General. The Prior General and his Council thank Fr. Giampiero for his willingness to serve the Order and keep him in their prayers.Read more ...+           +           +&nbs ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Are You the One?3rd Sunday of AdventThis Sunday marks the turning point in the Advent Season. Traditionally called Gaudete Sunday it is a day of rejoicing that the Saviour is near. The focus shifts from the final coming of Christ at the end of time to the first coming of Christ at Bethlehem.The words of Jesus clarify his identity and that of John the Baptist. Jesus comes, not as the kind of warrior-messiah, slaughtering and slashing, but as ‘the kindness of God’, tending the sheep, he ...Continue Reading

 Bl. Bartholomew Fanti, priestDecember 5 | Optional MemorialHe was born in Mantua, Italy, in 1420. At the age of seventeen, he entered the Carmelite Order. After his ordination, he distinguished himself as a preacher. He was extraordinarily devoted to the Blessed Sacrament. With oil from the lamp of the Blessed Sacrament, he miraculously healed several people. He established a lay confraternity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Mantua, for which he himself wrote the statutes and prescribed the devotional exercises.It ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Prepare A Way For The Lord 2nd Sunday of Advent The magnificent first reading from the prophet Isaiah this weekend looks forward to the appearance of one ‘on whom the spirit of the Lord rests – a spirit of wisdom and insight, counsel and power and knowledge of the fear of the Lord’. John the Baptist sits at the centre of this week’s Gospel and next week’s. He is the ‘one who cries in the wilderness: Prepare a way for the Lord; make his paths straight’. John was preparing the p ...Continue Reading