Celebrating at Home: Love Revealed in the PassionGood FridayPilate wrote out a notice and had it fixed to the cross; it ran: ‘Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews’. This notice was read by many of the Jews, because the place where Jesus was crucified was not far from the city, and the writing was in Hebrew, Latin and Greek. So the Jewish chief priests said to Pilate, ‘You should not write ‘King of the Jews’, but ‘This man said: I am King of the Jews’. Pilate answered, ‘What I have written, I have writt ...Continue Reading

  Celebrating at Home: Washing Feet, Sharing Bread and Wine: Love Poured Out in ServiceHoly ThursdayOn this night we recall Jesus’ commandment to love one another, his washing of the disciples’ feet and the breaking of the bread of his own life, not just at table, but also on the altar of the Cross, for the healing and nourishment of the world.We are the ones who make ‘real’ the presence of Jesus in every smile, kind word and loving action.Read more ...[*]Celebrating At Home - Holy Thursday [PDF][*]C ...Continue Reading

   Celebrating at Home: Love RevealedPalm Sunday of the Passion of the LordIn the Roman Empire people used palm branches and other greenery as a sign of welcome and respect as important people entered the towns and cities. The Gospels record that this is what many people in Jerusalem did for Jesus.The greenery is a reminder that the story of Jesus does not end in death, but life.Read more ...[*]Celebrating At Home - Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord [PDF] (1.50 MB)[*]Celebrating At Home - Palm S ...Continue Reading

     Celebrating at Home: Freedom and Forgiveness7th Sunday of LentWe know the story of the woman caught in the act of adultery so well that we usually miss the fact that it is not only the woman who experiences God’s forgiveness through Jesus in this story.The Gospels of the last two Sundays were parables about God’s forgiveness and tender care in nurturing us back to life. In today’s Gospel we see God’s lavish forgiveness in action as Jesus deals with a concrete human situation of life-threate ...Continue Reading

 April –  Abril – Aprile  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 - April 2025[*]Lectio Divina April 2025 [Pdf] (940 KB)[*]Lectio Divina April 2025 [ePub] (374 KB)[*]Lectio Divina April 2025 [Mobi] (437 KB)  If you wish to receive updates on current news from the Carmelite Order, subscribe ...Continue Reading

     Celebrating at Home: The Forgiving Father4th Sunday of LentThis Sunday’s Gospel is a parable of lavish and unexpected forgiveness and reconciliation. It is one of three parables in which God’s mercy breaks through all human and religious restrictions about how God should act toward sinners.The Gospel offers not just the hope of God’s forgiveness but the certainty of it. The message today is: Rejoice in God’s abiding mercy!Read more ...[*]Celebrating At Home - 4th Sunday in Lent [P ...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.Our life as Christians ...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.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).Read more ...[*]Celebrating At Home - 1st Sunday in Lent [PDF] (2.83 MB)[*]Celebrating At H ...Continue Reading

March –  Marzo– Marzo  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 - March 2025[*]Lectio Divina March, 2025 [Pdf] (1.85 MB)[*]Lectio Divina March, 2025 [ePub] (191 KB)[*]Lectio Divina March, 2025 [Mobi] (783 KB)  If you wish to receive updates on current news from the Carmelite Order, subscribe to ...Continue Reading

 Celebrating at Home: Sound Tree, Good Fruit8th Sunday of Ordinary TimeWe live in a world of words thanks to modern mass media and, particularly, social media. We have seen the extremely harmful way in which words can be used in harsh judgement against other people, and the sheer vitriol of some on social media gives us pause for thought. It begs us to ask the question, implied in the first reading for today (Eccl 27:4-7), ‘What do my words reveal about who I am?’Read more ...[*]Celebrating At Home - ...Continue Reading