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SECULAR ORDER OF DISCALCED CARMELITES
England, Wales and Scotland
cpblamires
3 days ago1 min read
Teresa's two ladies
We were looking at Chapter 10 in the Way of Perfection last night and I was struck with the delightful Teresa’s way of expressing...
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cpblamires
4 days ago1 min read
A new book especially for Seculars
'Called to Carmel, Called to Community: Reflections on the Carmelite Rule, Secular Constitutions, and Statutes' by Tim Bete Grateful...
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cpblamires
5 days ago1 min read
While there is life, there is hope
The rich treasury of the Catholic saints and blesseds often seems to me to be inexhaustible. I don’t know how many there are, I expect...
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cpblamires
6 days ago1 min read
A reforming spirit
I learnt quite a bit from reading about St Joseph of Leonissa Ofm. Cap (1556-1612), whose feast is today. First about himself – he was a...
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cpblamires
7 days ago1 min read
Carmel and Technology
Among the most endearing of the many new technologies to me are What’s App groups. A What’s App group has just been started for the...
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cpblamires
Jan 312 min read
Teresa of Avila - a popular patroness
I googled ‘St John Bosco Carmelites’ to find any connections between the saint of today’s feast with Carmel, and I came up with the...
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cpblamires
Jan 301 min read
Carmel and the Inklings?
The Boars Hill Carmelite friars have a plot in Wolvercote Cemetery, on the northern edge of the city of Oxford. This same cemetery...
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cpblamires
Jan 291 min read
Carmel as a greenhouse
In recent years I have found myself – to my complete astonishment – involved in founding new OCDS groups. There are of course many...
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cpblamires
Jan 281 min read
Carmel and Israel
In the Office of Readings, we have been looking recently at St Paul’s Letter to the Romans. I can’t help but be struck by the way that...
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cpblamires
Jan 271 min read
A saint with the spirit of Carmel
I found this about St Angela Merici (1474-1540, today's feast) on an Ursuline website – it seems she was very close to us Carmelites in...
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cpblamires
Jan 242 min read
A gentle saint and Carmel
Quite a few years ago in my Protestant days I discovered the Treatise on the Love of God by St Francis of Sales (1567-1622) - whose feast...
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cpblamires
Jan 231 min read
A saint beloved in Carmel
Today’s saint offered to us by the Church - St Emerentiana - was a favourite of Blessed Marie-Eugène, founder of the Carmelite Institute...
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cpblamires
Jan 221 min read
St Therese consoling Jesus
In a Carmelite prayer group last night, we were discussing the ‘Act of Self-Offering to Merciful Love’ (you can google it to see the...
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cpblamires
Jan 211 min read
The divine intimacy
I was talking to a friend the other day about how in my youth I was always craving intimacy with a woman. When I married my late wife, I...
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cpblamires
Jan 201 min read
'How was the meeting?'
‘How was it?’ – we sometimes get asked by others after one of our Carmelite meetings; or we ask someone else that question after such a...
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cpblamires
Jan 172 min read
An ancestor of Carmel
The story of St Antony made a great impression on me when I first read about him as a young man. This call he had to a life of solitude...
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cpblamires
Jan 161 min read
Boars Hill and the writers
After his funeral mass at Boars Hill Carmelite Priory today, Fr John Hughes OCD will be laid to rest in Wolvercote Cemetery. This is...
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cpblamires
Jan 151 min read
The marvels of technology
This morning we shall be having an OCDS National Council meeting on Zoom. The National Council is composed of the Regional...
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cpblamires
Jan 141 min read
Called to Hope
I have received notification of a big conference on S t Therese of Lisieux to be held at the Boars Hill Carmelite Priory in...
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cpblamires
Jan 131 min read
Sisters in the Spirit
I have been reading a book about the influence of St Teresa of Avila on St Therese of Lisieux. We are so used to thinking of Therese as...
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