SECULAR ORDER OF DISCALCED CARMELITES
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Delighted to discover the beautiful and inspiring website of an enclosed community of Carmelite friars in Wyoming in the USA.  It is good to end the calendar (natural) year on a positive note.  I quote from their website: ‘The Monks of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel is a monastic, cloistered Roman Catholic community founded in the Rocky Mountains in the Diocese of Cheyenne, Wyoming. In the solitude and silence of the mountain wilderness, the Carmelite monks of

I like this quote from Fr François de Sainte-Marie, a twentieth-century French Discalced Carmelite who was a prolific author and editor.  ‘Jesus continues to be born, to grow, and to die in the course of history, according to the very rhythm of the liturgical year, which takes up and gives voice to all the aspirations, the sufferings, the joys, and all the love of his own. And the Virgin, beside her Son, continues her watch of love through the souls who are devoted to her.’  

Great and encouraging news from Australia!  The Aleteia website informs us of a new Carmelite monastery in New South Wales – the Carmel of Elijah: ‘Cardinal Mykola Bychok of Sydney and Bishop Columba Macbeth-Green of Wilcannia-Forbes will preside over the groundbreaking of a new monastery for an order of Discalced Carmelite nuns on January 10, as the order officially establishes a presence in the town of Mathoura, New South Wales, Australia.  The Discalced Carmelites arrived

Christmas greetings to all readers. Although I have visited Carmel City in California, I have never been to the city of Carmel, Indiana, but you might like to know that they claim to have 'the best Christmas Market in the US'! Wikipedia says ' this town, founded in 1837, was originally called 'Bethlehem'. A post office was established as "Carmel" in 1846 because Indiana already had a post office called Bethlehem .  The name Carmel is a reference to 1 Samuel 25:2 mentioning