Celebrating at Home: Journey Into the Light4th Sunday of LentIn this Sunday’s Gospel we accompany the man who was born blind on his journey into the light. The first thing we read in the full version of this Gospel is that Jesus announces that the man is sinless – he has been born blind so that God’s glory can be seen at work in him. Then Jesus gives the blind man sight. Notice that the man didn’t ask to be healed – this is Jesus’ initiative, taking the first step and reaching out in love. That’s how Jesus ap ...Continue Reading

  Celebrating at Home: Come and Drink3rd Sunday of LentThe Gospels of the first two Sundays describe what Lent is about and what Christian life is about: a constant 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.The Gospels of the next three Sunday make clear that the Way from temptation to transfiguration is in and through Jesus Christ ...Continue Reading

 March  –  Marzo  –  Marzo 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 - March 2026[*]Lectio Divina March 2026 [Pdf] (1.07 MB)[*]Lectio Divina March 2026 [ePub] (490 KB)[*]Lectio Divina March 2026 [Mobi] (259 KB)  If you wish to receive updates on current news from the Carmel ...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.Transfiguration means to be shot-t ...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. We know that evil can do the same.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). We allow ourselves to be tempted out of the ash of selfishne ...Continue Reading

 Celebrating at Home: Excessive Generosity6th Sunday in Ordinary TimeIn the Jewish tradition, guidance about how to be at rights with God and neighbor is found in the Torah, the teaching contained in the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament). It is especially important for St Matthew, writing his Gospel for Jewish believers, to show that Jesus is not opposed to Jewish teachings and traditions. He has not come to abolish the Law or the Prophets, but to comp ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Vulnerable Risk-Takers5th Sunday in Ordinary TimeLast Sunday, in the ‘Beatitudes’, Jesus called his disciples to be vulnerable risk-takers in the way they lived their lives.Continuing the Sermon on the Mount this week, Jesus goes on to say that if they live this way, they will be like the salt that transforms the flavour of food and the light that transforms the darkness.Undertaking this path of transformation produces the flavour and light of good works which lift burd ...Continue Reading

February –  Febrero – Febbraio  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 - February 2026[*]Lectio Divina February, 2026 [Pdf][*]Lectio Divina February, 2026 [ePub][*]Lectio Divina February, 2026 [Mobi]  If you wish to receive updates on current news from the Carmelite Order, subscribe to CITOC New ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: The Light Shines4th Sunday in Ordinary TimeLast Sunday’s Gospel introduced the beginning of Jesus’ ministry in Galilee, his call to repentance, the choice of some disciples and the spread of his fame.Now, over the next four Sundays, the church will take us on a journey through Jesus’ teaching in Chapters 5-7 of Matthew’s Gospel. These chapters form the Sermon on the Mount. Each Sunday’s Gospel builds on the one before – they are part of this first discourse in Matt ...Continue Reading

 Celebrating at Home: The Light Shines3rd Sunday in Ordinary TimeThe Sunday Gospels between now and the beginning of Lent will use the Sermon on the Mount to help us explore and reflect upon who this Lamb of God is and how we, as disciples, should respond to him. They will unfold for us how Jesus, the Lamb of God, is the source of true peace and how we can find our way to him and to one another – that is, how we can live faithful to the tradition of Jesus.This Sunday Jesus begins his ministry in an unexpected place ...Continue Reading