Celebrating at Home: Freedom and Forgiveness7th Sunday of LentWe know the story of the woman caught in the act of adultery so well that we usually miss the fact that it is not only the woman who experiences God’s forgiveness through Jesus in this story.The Gospels of the last two Sundays were parables about God’s forgiveness and tender care in nurturing us back to life. In today’s Gospel we see God’s lavish forgiveness in action as Jesus deals with a concrete human situation of life-threate ...Continue Reading

 April –  Abril – Aprile  2025 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 2025[*]Lectio Divina April 2025 [Pdf] (940 KB)[*]Lectio Divina April 2025 [ePub] (374 KB)[*]Lectio Divina April 2025 [Mobi] (437 KB)  If you wish to receive updates on current news from the Carmelite Order, subscribe ...Continue Reading

     Celebrating at Home: The Forgiving Father4th Sunday of LentThis Sunday’s Gospel is a parable of lavish and unexpected forgiveness and reconciliation. It is one of three parables in which God’s mercy breaks through all human and religious restrictions about how God should act toward sinners.The Gospel offers not just the hope of God’s forgiveness but the certainty of it. The message today is: Rejoice in God’s abiding mercy!Read more ...[*]Celebrating At Home - 4th Sunday in Lent [P ...Continue Reading

   Celebrating at Home: Transfiguration2nd Sunday of LentThis Sunday’s Gospel of the Transfiguration completes the ‘little parable’ formed by the Gospels of the first two Sundays of Lent.These Gospels tell us what Lent is about and what Christian life is about: a journey from temptation and doubt to transfiguration and faith. A journey away from allowing ourselves to be tempted to evil, and towards allowing ourselves to be tempted to good by the action of God’s Holy Spirit within us.Our life as Christians ...Continue Reading

 Celebrating at Home: Temptation to Transfiguration1st Sunday of LentOur great Lenten journey has begun. It’s a journey which begins in ash and ends in water. Fire is a profound part of our experience. We know its power to destroy, blacken and reduce to ash.As always, the Gospels of the first two Sundays in Lent provide a road map for our Lenten journey from temptation (this Sunday) to transfiguration (next Sunday).Read more ...[*]Celebrating At Home - 1st Sunday in Lent [PDF] (2.83 MB)[*]Celebrating At H ...Continue Reading

March –  Marzo– Marzo  2025 ENGLISH | ESPAÑOL | ITALIANODownload English: ocarm.org/en/prayer/lectiodivina Descargar Español: ocarm.org/es/prayer/lectiodivina Scarica Italiano: ocarm.org/it/prayer/lectiodivinaENGLISHLECTIO DIVINA - March 2025[*]Lectio Divina March, 2025 [Pdf] (1.85 MB)[*]Lectio Divina March, 2025 [ePub] (191 KB)[*]Lectio Divina March, 2025 [Mobi] (783 KB)  If you wish to receive updates on current news from the Carmelite Order, subscribe to ...Continue Reading

 Celebrating at Home: Sound Tree, Good Fruit8th Sunday of Ordinary TimeWe live in a world of words thanks to modern mass media and, particularly, social media. We have seen the extremely harmful way in which words can be used in harsh judgement against other people, and the sheer vitriol of some on social media gives us pause for thought. It begs us to ask the question, implied in the first reading for today (Eccl 27:4-7), ‘What do my words reveal about who I am?’Read more ...[*]Celebrating At Home - ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Generous Relationships7th Sunday of Ordinary TimeLast Sunday we began to read Luke’s Sermon on the Plain. Luke has used Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount but changed and shortened it significantly. Today and next Sunday we will read the rest of the Sermon.This week, Jesus’ radical teaching focusses on lavish generosity in human relationships. The opening words, ‘Love your enemies,’ set the tone of the rest of the text.Again, at first glance the words of Jesus seem absurd and almost impossible to follow. ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Blessings & Woes6th Sunday of Ordinary TimeOver the next three Sundays we will listen to almost the whole of Luke’s Sermon on the Plain.Luke has used Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount but changed and shortened it significantly. It is important to realise that both Sermons are more than only the Beatitudes which begin them.In Luke, Jesus’ words are addressed to the disciples, not to the gathered crowd, so we might think of the sermon as a teaching about discipleship. The whole of the Sermon is q ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Here I Am, Send Me5th Sunday of Ordinary TimeAs if to balance the rejection Jesus experienced in last week’s Gospel, this week’s episode tells two stories of people who welcome his message.Firstly, an enthusiastic crowd has gathered on the shore of the lake, eagerly pressing forward to hear Jesus’ teaching. Jesus seems to be in danger of being crushed or at least being pushed into the sea! He takes the unusual step of teaching from Simon’s boat.Secondly, Luke tells us that Simon and his companions a ...Continue Reading