SECULAR ORDER OF DISCALCED CARMELITES
England, Wales and Scotland

We have a small ‘Going Deeper’ group in our parish.  We meet monthly, and our meetings are devoted to saying Evening Prayer together,...

Looking forward to the annual Carmelite pilgrimage to Walsingham on Saturday 28 June.  This pilgrimage has been struggling for numbers in...

I know that our new Pope Leo is rightly commanding our attention and interest right now, but I just came across this report on a talk...

St Simon Stock (feast day today) was elected the sixth general of the Carmelites in 1247 at the first Chapter - held at Aylesford in...

It is my firm conviction that life in Carmel is good for a person’s mental health.  For example, our trust in the Divine Providence helps...

St (Mother) Teresa of Calcutta and St Therese of Lisieux – what on earth could they have had in common?  The saint of Calcutta, having...

I wrote about the Carmelite connection of English Catholic convert musician Sir Lennox Berkeley yesterday, and that made me think of...

We were talking about musicians with Carmelite connections in one of our groups recently.  Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) was actually...

By coincidence, we had an OCDS meeting yesterday evening in Oxford, so we were gathered together when the white smoke was reported from...

I have been invited to a Conference for Catholic Converts towards the end of June in the magnificent setting of Ampleforth Abbey.  More...