Celebrating at Home: Come and Drink3rd Sunday of Lent*The Gospels of the next three Sunday make clear that the Way from temptation to transfiguration is in and through Jesus Christ who is Living Water, Light and Life for the would-be disciple. They are three great stories from John about responding in faith.The first of the three ‘great Gospels’ of Lent is ours this weekend: the encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman.Read more ...Celebrating At Home - 3rd Sunday in Lent [PDF]Celebratin ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Transfiguration 2nd Sunday of Lent* This 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. Read more ... Celebrating ...Continue Reading

March – Marzo – Marzo 2023 ENGLISH | ESPAÑOL | ITALIANO Download English: ocarm.org/en/prayer/lectiodivina Descargar Español: ocarm.org/es/prayer/lectiodivina Scarica Italiano: ocarm.org/it/prayer/lectiodivina ENGLISH LECTIO DIVINA - March 2023 Lectio Divina March 2023 [PDF] Download here Lectio Divina March 2023 [ePub] Download here Lectio Divina March 2023 [Mobi] Download here If you wish to receive updates on current news from the Carmelite Order, subscribe to CITOC ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Temptation to Transfiguration 1st Sunday of Lent* Our great Lenten journey has begun. It’s a journey which begins in ash and ends in water. We begin Lent in the ash of acknowledging our own part in harbouring, creating and doing evil - those places in our hearts where the fire of anger, bitterness, selfishness or narrowness of mind and heart has left nothing but cold ash. As always, the Gospels of the first two Sundays in Lent provide a road map for our Lenten journey from temptation (this Sunda ...Continue Reading

 Celebrating at Home: Going the Extra Mile7th Sunday of Ordinary Time*Vengeance, retaliation and violence seem part and parcel of the human experience. When we are hurt our first instinct is often to strike back, to take revenge on the one who hurt us - ‘pay back’, as we call it.In continuing his Sermon on the Mount in today’s Gospel, Jesus calls his disciples to a new way of handling violence and unjust treatment - not with revenge and retaliation, but with open-hearted generosity and forgiveness.Read more&nbs ...Continue Reading

 Celebrating at Home: Excessive Generosity6th Sunday of Ordinary Time*In 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 complete or fulfill them.Read more . ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Vulnerable Risk-Takers 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time* 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 flavor of food and the light that transforms the darkness. Undertaking this path of transformation produces the flavor and light of good works which lift burdens from our fellow human beings, not for the praise of the disciple but for the praise to God.  Read more ... Celebrating At Home - 5th Su ...Continue Reading

February – Febrero – Febbraio 2023 ENGLISH | ESPAÑOL | ITALIANO Download English: ocarm.org/en/prayer/lectiodivina Descargar Español: ocarm.org/es/prayer/lectiodivina Scarica Italiano: ocarm.org/it/prayer/lectiodivina ENGLISH LECTIO DIVINA - February 2023 Lectio Divina February 2023 [PDF] Download here Lectio Divina February 2023 [ePub] Download here Lectio Divina February 2023 [Mobi] Download here If you wish to receive updates on current news from the Carmelite Order ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Catching the Vision 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time* 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 Matthew’s Gospel and need to be understood in a connected sense, not as a series of isolated sayings. Read more ... [*]Celebrating At Home - 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time [PDF] [* ...Continue Reading

 Celebrating at Home: The Light Shines3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time*The 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 plac ...Continue Reading