SECULAR ORDER OF DISCALCED CARMELITES
England, Wales and Scotland

The sun shone gently and pleasantly on Saturday at Boars Hill Carmelite Priory for the friars' fund-raising day. They are needing to...

We have started a new section on the website. It comes under the 'Enrichment' heading. It is simply entitled 'Stories'. We want to...

Looking back on the years before the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, it is wonderful to see the great things that have happened in...

Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer (1902-1975) - whose feast day is today - was the founder of one of the most influential and effective...

The blog about the Carmelite foundation in Hulne, Northumberland the other day reminded me about a unique Carmelite site in Scotland. ...

On Saturday we had our annual Carmelite pilgrimage to England's national shrine at Walsingham in Norfolk. Fr Matt talked to us at the...

A famous figure in America, the Catholic social activist and writer Dorothy Day (1897-1980) is perhaps not so well known in the UK. One...

I have received this recommendation from an OCDS member: “The Prayers of St Teresa of Avila” Compiled by Thomas Alvarez OCD Pub: New City...

A fellow Secular recently sent me this account of an unusual pilgrimage to the historic Carmelite site of Hulne Priory near Alnwick in...

This is a much longer blog than usual but I make no apology for it because it is a lovely conversion story I have just found on the net,...

A fellow Secular points me in the direction of a video conversation between Fr Liam Finnerty OCD and Joanne Mosley on the subject of St...

I forgot to mention that those who aren't able to come on the Walsingham Pilgrimage can follow the Pilgrim mass at noon on the website...

June is the month for the annual Carmelite Pilgrimage to Walsingham. This will be taking place on Saturday 22nd - Saturday week. As we...

Talks are afoot with the aim of establishing a new group in Cardiff. If you are from that area or if you know of someone from that area...

On Saturday I attended an unusual ceremony. A friend of mine is a Lay Dominican and he had been studying for six years for a BA through...

We have produced a new leaflet to advertise the Secular Carmelites and explain what we do. It makes use of the famous picture by the...

When new individuals begin to attend meetings of Secular groups or communities, they first attend that particular group or community for...

I had been a Catholic for many years before I heard about 'the six-inch drop' - the short drop from head to heart, in other words the...

I keep discovering ever more historical figures who have loved our St Teresa. The other day a Finnish friend told me about Anastasie...

Today's feast of St Boniface (c675-754) is a reminder that prophets are sometimes less honoured in their own country than elsewhere. It...