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SECULAR ORDER OF DISCALCED CARMELITES
England, Wales and Scotland
Blog suspended until Monday 30 June
I will be in retreat at Douai Abbey near Reading from today and for the rest of the week; next Monday I will be travelling to Ampleforth...
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14 hours ago
The Orders helping each other
Tomorrow afternoon I will be going on retreat for the rest of the week with fellow Carmelites to the Benedictines at Douai Abbey near...
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2 days ago
A children's party
Last night in a Carmelite group we were discussing a letter Therese wrote to one of the missionaries she was in regular contact with, Fr...
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4 days ago
A Pope and a Carmelite martyr
I am struck by the fact that Blessed Alfons Maria Mazurek OCD (1891-1944) whose feast is today, was beatified by a Pope who had actually...
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6 days ago
A Dutch Carmelite honours an Englishman
Friends in Devon have invited me to go on their Plymouth Diocesan pilgrimage to Crediton at the end of August. Crediton is by tradition...
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7 days ago
The Hurly-Burly of life
I shall be attending a Carmelite Retreat in a couple of weeks. I am in a minority of one among my fellow Carmelites because they all...
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Jun 10
Another Secular Saint
Last week I wrote about the Norbertine Seculars whose existence I had just discovered. Today I have discovered the existence of the...
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Jun 9
Our debt to St Norbert
On this feast day of St Norbert (1080-1134), I discover that the Norbertines (Premonstratensians/Canons Regular of Prémontré) also have a...
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Jun 6
Enclosed Nuns evangelising a politician
I have just come across an extraordinary new French book containing the correspondence between a duo of Lisieux Carmelite nuns - St...
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Jun 5
Pope Leo XIV and Therese
Our new Holy Father has already referred to our St Therese! On 28 May he sent a message to the French Bishops celebrating the...
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Jun 4
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