SECULAR ORDER OF DISCALCED CARMELITES
England, Wales and Scotland

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...

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...

‘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...

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...

After his funeral mass at Boars Hill Carmelite Priory today, Fr John Hughes OCD will be laid to rest in Wolvercote Cemetery.  This is...

This morning we shall be having an OCDS National Council meeting on Zoom.  The National Council is composed of the Regional...

I have received notification of a big conference on S            t Therese of Lisieux to be held at the Boars Hill Carmelite Priory in...

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...

Philippa Hodges died at Christmas.  A member of the St Elijah Secular Community in Oxford, she had been connected with the Carmelites...

Somebody I was with very recently told me ‘I was wild in my youth’, so I was intrigued to learn a little from Wikipedia about the Italian...