SECULAR ORDER OF DISCALCED CARMELITES
England, Wales and Scotland

I am allowing myself a gentle smile right now because on one of the (very helpful) Catholic websites I occasionally consult to learn...

Fascinated by St Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows (Francesco Possenti 1838-1862), whose feast is today: he repeatedly fought off a call to...

I was looking at what St Paul says in 1 Corinthians 12 about the diversity of gifts within the communities of the faithful and thinking...

Sometimes when looking at the saint of the day my thoughts are led on a bit of a dance from here to there.  Today we have an English...

I am a bit confused about our fellow Secular Carmelite Josefa Navel Girbés, because she seems to have two feast days – 24 February and...

I have recently discovered a fascinating book by Pablo Maria Garrido O.Carm ( St Teresa, St John of the Cross and the Spanish Carmelites...

To a funeral in Hampshire yesterday.  Anthony Kirke RIP produced a little Carmelite calendar every year with the feasts of the OCD...

Hopeful developments in South Wales.  We have been working on the establishment of an OCDS presence in the Cardiff area for a while: we...

I did not recognise today’s saint – Blessed John of Fiesole (c.1395-1455) – until I looked him up and then realised that this was the...

We had a wonderful celebration in the Romsey OCDS group on Saturday.  The first two of our number in this group (which is about three...

Yesterday afternoon I was on my way to the monthly meeting of my OCDS Community in Oxford, and just as I was about to exit my home town...

I cannot resist copying this absolutely delightful entry for today off the website catholicireland.net - though it does not have a...

When my OCDS community first began more than twenty years ago, there were four of us.  I was completely new to Carmel, I was just trying...

I never cease to be amazed at the attractive power of St Therese of Lisieux which takes this beautiful saint into people's hearts and...

I have been invited to give a talk on Therese in a few months’ time, and I was asked to provide the organisers with a title now for...

We were looking at Chapter 10 in the Way of Perfection last night and I was struck with the delightful Teresa’s way of expressing...

'Called to Carmel, Called to Community: Reflections on the Carmelite Rule, Secular Constitutions, and Statutes' by Tim Bete Grateful...

The rich treasury of the Catholic saints and blesseds often seems to me to be inexhaustible.  I don’t know how many there are, I expect...

I learnt quite a bit from reading about St Joseph of Leonissa Ofm. Cap (1556-1612), whose feast is today.  First about himself – he was a...

Among the most endearing of the many new technologies to me are What’s App groups.  A What’s App group has just been started for the...