SECULAR ORDER OF DISCALCED CARMELITES
England, Wales and Scotland

Everything about her is a miracle.  This slip of a girl only ever once travelled any distance outside her home territory of Normandy to...

Tonight our Virtual Carmel meets.  These monthly internet Seculars sessions are so much part of my routine now that it is easy to forget...

I am lifting today’s blog from one published by Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim the other day.  He is a Cistercian monk who used to be...

Yesterday I blogged about pilgrimages and the wholly unexpected graces I had received from them.  It’s actually a feature of life that...

I have just heard about a pilgrimage to Lisieux to be held next May and I am pondering joining it.  After all, it will be the centenary...

I was in the Post Office a few months ago and I picked up a leaflet about Meditation Classes.  I wasn’t surprised to see that it was a...

I came across this quote from the renowned Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988).  ‘ W hat you are is God’s gift to you.  W...

I have always delighted in the closeness to others that comes with spiritual sharing – conversation about our experiences of God, about...

Today’s Carmelite saint, Raphael of St Joseph Kalinowski (1835-1907) deserves to be much better known that he is in the UK.  A glance at...

OCDS Headquarters in Rome have sent out an inquiry about Seculars’ commitment to devotion to Our Lady - and there is a questionnaire to...

I hear warnings about Facebook as a channel for cybercrime, but I notice that there are many good Catholic groups using it, and in...

Many years ago I was privileged to meet Mother Mary Garson (1921-2007), foundress of the wonderful Benedictine Grace and Compassion...

I usually try to keep a Carmelite focus in these blogs, but today I cannot forbear from telling the hugely dramatic story of a...

We met, just the three of us, at the beautiful Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour in Northampton yesterday.  We are putting heart...

On this solemn Remembrance Day when our minds turn towards the terrible wars of the twentieth century, it is good to be reminded too of...

On this Feast of St Elizabeth of the Trinity OCD (1880-1906), I will content myself with presenting a couple of quotes from her.  First,...

More about the Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother whom I wrote about yesterday in connection with Sister Clare Crockett.  On...

Today news reaches us of a potential new young saint, and a British one (from Derry) – Sister Clare Crockett (1982-2016), whose cause is...

Today's contribution comes from Andrea Cope OCDS: 'Our Holy Father Elijah’s motto and for the Carmelite Order is “with zeal have I been...

I first encountered St Charles Borromeo (1538-1584) whose feast day is today before I became a Catholic.  I was particularly struck by...