SECULAR ORDER OF DISCALCED CARMELITES
England, Wales and Scotland

I have had an extraordinary fortnight.  First, to the Benedictines at Douai Abbey near Reading for a Carmelite retreat led by the...

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...

Tomorrow afternoon I will be going on retreat for the rest of the week with fellow Carmelites to the Benedictines at Douai Abbey near...

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...

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...

Friends in Devon have invited me to go on their Plymouth Diocesan pilgrimage to Crediton at the end of August.  Crediton is by tradition...

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...

Last week I wrote about the Norbertine Seculars whose existence I had just discovered.  Today I have discovered the existence of the...

On this feast day of St Norbert (1080-1134), I discover that the Norbertines (Premonstratensians/Canons Regular of Prémontré) also have a...

I have just come across an extraordinary new French book containing the correspondence between a duo of Lisieux Carmelite nuns - St...

Our new Holy Father has already referred to our St Therese!  On 28 May he sent a message to the French Bishops celebrating the...

Among the most extraordinary of stories that I have come across in researching the astonishing legacy of St Teresa is that of an opera...

I mentioned the National Council of the Secular Carmelites meeting last week.  The National Council is composed very simply of the...