August – Agosto – Agosto  2024 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 - August 2024[*]Lectio Divina August, 2024 [Pdf][*]Lectio Divina August, 2024 [ePub][*]Lectio Divina August, 2024 [Mobi]  If you wish to receive updates on current news from the Carmelite Order, subscribe to CITOC News at ocarm.org----- ...Continue Reading

  Celebrating at Home: We Are Fed That We Might Feed17th Sunday in Ordinary TimeUnusually, our reading of St Mark’s Gospel will be interrupted for the next five weeks during which we will read the ‘Bread of Life’ passages from Chapter 6 of St John’s Gospel. These passages form a kind of meditation about who Jesus is and what is happening when we gather for Eucharist - we are being nourished by Jesus in Word and Sacrament, and we are being sent to feed and nourish one another.When God answers needs and provides ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Shepherding Each Other With God's Love16th Sunday in Ordinary TimeIn the first reading the prophet Jeremiah laments the poor leadership given by those to whom the flock of God has been entrusted. He tells of the days to come when God will raise up true shepherds look after the flock and pasture (feed) them.In the Gospel Mark shows Jesus to be a true shepherd whose heart is moved by the needs of both the people and his own disciples. The disciples have returned from their preaching and tell Jesu ...Continue Reading

 BVM de Monte Carmelo -- BruggeIN SOLLEMNITATE B.V. MARIAE DE MONTE CARMELO/Flos Carmeli, vitis florigera,//splendor caeli, Virgo puerpera singularis. Mater mitis, sed viri nescia, Carmelitis esto propitia, stella maris./ *MÍĊEÁL PRIOR GENERALIS DOMUSQUE GENERALIS COMMUNITAS*16.VII.2024 Video Message of the Prior General  |  Written Message of the Prior General  Mensaje en vídeo del Prior General  |  Mensaje por escrito del Prior General  Video ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Living Sacraments of God's Love15th Sunday in Ordinary TimeThe first reading today tells the story of Amos, an ordinary man who was called by God to be a prophet. Amos, who had been happily looking after his sheep and his sycamore trees when God called him, was sent to preach to people. Like Amos, the disciples in the Gospel are ordinary men. None, not even Jesus himself, is a formally commissioned or ordained rabbi, yet they are called and commissioned to preach and to heal.The Gospel nee ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: True Faith: Seeing the Sacred Everywhere14th Sunday in Ordinary TimeCommon to all the prophets is the conviction that the Word of the Lord must be spoken to the people ‘whether they listen or not’ - the prophet must remain faithful to his vocation even if it costs him his life.In the Gospels Jesus is presented as the prophet par excellence. In this Sunday’s Gospel we find Jesus in his home town, Nazareth, teaching in the synagogue - faithfully fulfilling his mission to proclaim the Good Ne ...Continue Reading

 June – Julio – Luglio  2024 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 - July 2024[*]Lectio Divina July 2024 [Pdf][*]Lectio Divina July 2024 [ePub][*]Lectio Divina July 2024 [Mobi]  If you wish to receive updates on current news from the Carmelite Order, subscribe to CITOC News at ocarm.org------ocarm.org---- ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Being Healing and Life for Each Other13th Sunday in Ordinary TimeIn the longer version of this Sunday’s gospel (Mk 5:21-43) Mark presents two stories of healing and restoration worked by Jesus for two women. One is a mature woman suffering from a haemorrhage for a long time, and the other is a young girl who has just died.Over the last few Sundays Mark has been showing us the reign of God’s grace (the Kingdom of God) at work in the person of Jesus. In the calming of the storm Mark has alre ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Life in the Kingdom of God12th Sunday in Ordinary TimeIn Mark’s Gospel the Kingdom is not something yet to come, it is a present reality. It is the presence and action (reign) of God among his people. That may not always been readily seen, but it is there none the less.Over the next few Sundays he begins to talk about the mystery of the Kingdom present in Jesus and what living in the Kingdom requires. None of Mark’s stories are about some awesome display of power. Mark’s stories make it clear that J ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: What is the Kingdom of God Like?11th Sunday of Ordinary TimeParables are meant to leave the hearers wondering. They are not straight-forward answers to questions. They are food for thought. By using parables Jesus is trying to engage his listeners at a deeper level. He wants his teaching to seize their hearts. He wants them to discover the truth of what he is saying for themselves. It is part of the business of conversion - coming to see with new eyes.In Mark’s Gospel the Kingdom is not somethi ...Continue Reading