Celebrating at Home: Strangers Share a Journey, Hearts Begin to Burn and They Recognize HimThird Sunday of EasterLuke’s wonderful story of the two disciples on the way to Emmaus is another story of transformation through personal encounter with the risen Jesus.It is a heart-warming story and we can easily identify with the two disciples feeling crushed by the weight of their shattered dreams. They don’t believe the story of the women that Jesus is alive. They don’t recognise the stranger when he walks beside ...Continue Reading

 Celebrating at Home: Strangers Share a Journey, Hearts Begin to Burn and They Recognize HimThird Sunday of EasterLuke’s wonderful story of the two disciples on the way to Emmaus is another story of transformation through personal encounter with the risen Jesus.It is a heart-warming story and we can easily identify with the two disciples feeling crushed by the weight of their shattered dreams. They don’t believe the story of the women that Jesus is alive. They don’t recognise the stranger when he walks beside ...Continue Reading

 Celebrating at Home: Strangers Share a Journey, Hearts Begin to Burn and They Recognize HimThird Sunday of EasterLuke’s wonderful story of the two disciples on the way to Emmaus is another story of transformation through personal encounter with the risen Jesus.It is a heart-warming story and we can easily identify with the two disciples feeling crushed by the weight of their shattered dreams. They don’t believe the story of the women that Jesus is alive. They don’t recognise the stranger when he walks beside ...Continue Reading

  Celebrating at Home: A Joyful Meeting, the Spirit Received, Doubts TransformedSecond Sunday of EasterThe great Easter feast of last Sunday began the Church’s fifty-day celebration of the Resurrection which concludes with the feast of Pentecost in six weeks. The Gospel of each Sunday is a meditation on Jesus as: the resurrected Christ, made known in the scriptures and the breaking of the bread, the bearer of life in all its fullness, our way, truth and life, pledge of God’s love.In today’s Gospel reading ther ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: An Empty Tomb, Lives Changed For Ever, Enduring PresenceEaster SundayIt’s not hard for us to share Mary’s sense of emptiness and bewilderment when she arrives at the tomb.If we were to read the next few verses from John’s Gospel, we would read a story of overwhelming joy as Mary Magdalen meets the risen Jesus. When Jesus speaks her name, Mary recognises him and sadness and emptiness give way to joyful reunion.It’s a story of transformation - how things can change when we meet the risen Jesus.Re ...Continue Reading

  Celebrating at Home: Love Revealed in the PassionGood FridayJoseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus though a secret one because he was afraid of the Jews asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave permission, so they came and took it away. Nicodemus came as well - the same one who had first come to Jesus at night-time and he brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds. They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it with the spices in linen cloths, following ...Continue Reading

  Celebrating at Home: Washing Feet, Sharing Bread and Wine; Love Poured Out in ServiceHoly ThursdayOn this night we recall Jesus’ commandment to love one another, his washing of the disciples’ feet and the breaking of the bread of his own life, not just at table, but also on the altar of the Cross, for the healing and nourishment of the world.The liturgy on Holy Thursday is a meditation on the essential connection between the Eucharist and Christian love expressed in serving one another. Christ is not only pr ...Continue Reading

 April  –  Abril  –  Aprile 2026 ENGLISH | ESPAÑOL | ITALIANODownload English: ocarm.org/en/prayer/lectiodivina Descargar Español: ocarm.org/es/prayer/lectiodivina Scarica Italiano: ocarm.org/it/prayer/lectiodivinaENGLISHLECTIO DIVINA - April 2026[*]Lectio Divina April 2026 [Pdf][*]Lectio Divina April 2026 [ePub][*]Lectio Divina April 2026 [Mobi]  If you wish to receive updates on current news from the Carmelite Order, subscribe to CI ...Continue Reading

  Celebrating at Home: Love RevealedPalm SundayMatthew presents the passion, not as a gruesome act, but as the means of salvation. The Cross is part of God’s plan, not a tragic mistake."The veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; the earth quaked; the rocks were split; the tombs opened and the bodies of many holy people rose from the dead, and these, after his resurrection, came out of the tombs, entered the Holy City and appeared to a number of people."Meanwhile the centurion, togethe ...Continue Reading

  Celebrating at Home: Let Him Go Free5th Sunday of LentThe final of the three great Gospels of Lent is ours today - a Gospel story of life and freedom. Like the Gospels of the last two Sundays, the dramatic story of Jesus raising his friend Lazarus from the dead is a story of love, faith and belief.In this Gospel Jesus proclaims himself ‘the resurrection and the life’. We see him deeply moved by the death of his friend. We find him in earnest prayer with God. We see him full of strength as he commands Lazarus ...Continue Reading