Celebrating at Home: Not So Soon33rd Sunday of Ordinary TimePassages of Scripture, like today’s Gospel, can leave us feeling disturbed.Talk of destruction, wars, revolutions, persecution and betrayal by close family members can be quite unsettling. Looking at the world today many of us, too, are dismayed by the wars, persecutions and destruction in our own day.Like Luke’s community, perhaps we, too, long for a saviour to come to our rescue, to make it all right. Maybe that is why so many are prepa ...Continue Reading

    Celebrating at Home: A Living TempleDedication of the Lateran BasilicaToday’s feast celebrates the dedication of the Cathedral Church of St John the Baptist in Rome. This cathedral is often referred to as the ‘Lateran’ because it is built on the site of a palace once belonging to the Laterani family. This palace served as the official residence of the Popes from the 4th to the 14th centuries. It is the cathedral church of the diocese of Rome of which the Pope is the local bishop.We cele ...Continue Reading

    Celebrating at Home: A Living TempleDedication of the Lateran BasilicaToday’s feast celebrates the dedication of the Cathedral Church of St John the Baptist in Rome. This cathedral is often referred to as the ‘Lateran’ because it is built on the site of a palace once belonging to the Laterani family. This palace served as the official residence of the Popes from the 4th to the 14th centuries. It is the cathedral church of the diocese of Rome of which the Pope is the local bishop.We cele ...Continue Reading

    Celebrating at Home: Giving Thanks With Grateful HeartsCommemoration of All SoulsThis weekend we celebrate those who are now in God’s care.We pray for them with faith and hope.As St Paul says, what proves that God loves us is that Christ died for us while we were still sinners, and by his death we have been made righteous in the eyes of God (Romans 5:8-10).We thank God for the presence of our departed sisters and brothers in our lives. We recognise them as a gift and blessing to us. Even in the m ...Continue Reading

November –  Noviembre – Novembre  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 - November 2025[*]Lectio Divina November, 2025 [Pdf][*]Lectio Divina November, 2025 [ePub][*]Lectio Divina November, 2025 [Mobi]  If you wish to receive updates on current news from the Carmelite Order, subscribe to CITOC N ...Continue Reading

 Celebrating at Home: We've All Met Them!XXX Sunday of Ordinary TimeWe’ve all met them: people who only seem to be able to bolster their self-image by putting everyone else down. We meet such a character in the Pharisee in the Gospel for this Sunday. Like the Pharisee in this week’s Gospel, we can sometimes see religion as a set of personal rituals, actions and prayers that cause us to think we have been faithful to God’s calling because we have done this or that.The background for the Gospel is set in the Fir ...Continue Reading

 Celebrating at Home: Don't Give UpXXIX Sunday of Ordinary TimeJesus tells this story of a persistent widow who wins the day against an unjust judge. St Luke says that the story is “about the need to pray continually and never lose heart”.God is not like the unjust judge, who delays in answering and finally gives in only when threatened. God will hear and answer the persistent cry of his people. We, too, can be tempted to lose heart as we live in the midst of the evils of our own day.Read more ...  [ ...Continue Reading

 Celebrating at Home: An Invitation for AllXXVIII Sunday of Ordinary TimeA major theme in St Luke’s Gospel is that the message of Jesus is for all: men and women, rich and poor, old and young, healthy and sick, gentile and Jew. No one is excluded.It is no accident that the one grateful leper in this week’s Gospel is not a Jew but a Samaritan – an outsider, excluded by race, religion and his illness. He joins the others in asking a Jewish Rabbi for mercy.Read more ...  [*]Celebrating At Home - 28th Su ...Continue Reading

Celebrating at Home: Does God Listen?XXVII Sunday of Ordinary Time“Are you listening, God?” That’s the cry of the prophet Habakkuk in the first reading for this Sunday. Everyone can resonate with the Habakkuk’s feelings of frustration and anger at the appalling injustice he witnesses. ‘Why is God so slow to act?’, he complains. God’s response to Habakkuk is a call to greater trust and faithfulness.The idea of faithfulness links the first reading with the today’s Gospel and the apostles asking Jesus to increase ...Continue Reading

October –  Octubre – Ottobre  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 - October 2025[*]Lectio Divina October, 2025 [Pdf][*]Lectio Divina October, 2025 [ePub][*]Lectio Divina October, 2025 [Mobi]  If you wish to receive updates on current news from the Carmelite Order, subscribe to CITOC News at o ...Continue Reading