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

 Celebrating at Home: The Gentleness of the Lamb2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time*Ordinary Time in the church’s year begins with the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord which celebrates his identity as the ‘beloved Son’. On this second Sunday in Ordinary Time we move from the baptism to the mission of the one baptised. As the first reading this Sunday says, this servant has a universal mission to gather and restore God’s people, to be the ‘light of the nations’ and to proclaim God’s salvation ‘to the ends of the earth’ ...Continue Reading

January – Enero – Gennaio 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 - January 2023 [*]Lectio Divina January 2023 [PDF] Download here [*]Lectio Divina January 2023 [ePub] Download here [*]Lectio Divina January 2023 [Mobi] Download here If you wish to receive updates on current news from the Carm ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: God is With Us! Nativity of the Lord* We began Advent with the cry, ‘Come, Lord Jesus’.  Now we end it with the joyful shout, ‘God is with us!’ Reflecting on the historical birth of Jesus, the Church proclaims the truth that God is, and has always been, with his people. And if God is with us, then God is for us. God is on our side. Read more ... [*]Celebrating At Home - Nativity of the Lord [PDF] [*]Celebrating At Home - Nativity of the Lord [ePub]  .     .   &n ...Continue Reading

 Celebrating at Home: The Promise Fulfilled4th Sunday of Advent* The great Christmas feast is almost here. As always in Advent, what is promised in the first reading is brought to fulfilment in the Gospel reading. We began Advent with the cry, ‘Come, Lord Jesus’. We will end it with the joyful shout, ‘God is with us!’Our Advent journey has called us to:stay awake to the coming of God,prepare ourselves to receive the Lord,rejoice that he is not afraid to make his home with us, and toreceive  ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Are You the One? 3rd Sunday of Advent* This Sunday marks the turning point in the Advent Season. Traditionally called Gaudete Sunday it is a day of rejoicing that the Saviour is near. The focus shifts from the final coming of Christ at the end of time to the first coming of Christ at Bethlehem. The note of joy is symbolised by the inclusion of the colour rose among the purple of the Season. The joyful first reading from the prophet Isaiah proclaims that God is on his way to save his people. Thi ...Continue Reading