SECULAR ORDER OF DISCALCED CARMELITES
England, Wales and Scotland

A theme of some of my recent conversations with individuals in Carmel or interested in Carmel has been the importance of spiritual...

I have just completed an article for our magazine Mount Carmel on a remarkable classic book by Gertrud von le Fort, a German baroness who...

Belonging to wider communities has always been a problem for individuals living in remote or semi-remote locations. The Seculars...

To my shame, I confess that I have only just discovered the website of the British Carmelite nuns - carmelitenuns.uk It is rather...

St Teresa cherished St Joseph and named him as patron of her first foundation in Avila. I found an article on the net devoted to the...

Having got involved in setting up new groups in recent times, I have been struck by the number of persons out there who want to go deeper...

It's hard to resist comparing the saint of today, St Catherine of Siena, with our St Teresa of Avila. Two utterly indomitable women who...

'Let us love, - since our hearts are made for nothing else'. I love this saying, because it reminds us that when we practise what Jesus...

Delighted to report that our new leaflets have arrived. We have used the theme of 'launch out into the deep', fronted by a design...

Appropriately enough on this St George's Day, we have a mass intention today in our parish for Mgr George Hay, a much-loved priest who...

I came across this quote attributed to 'Mother Teresa' - I guess that is St Teresa of Calcutta: 'Suffering is a sign that you have come...

In Rome representatives of the Discalced Carmelite Sisters have been meeting to discuss revision of their Constitutions, and they were...

The spread of the Teresian Reform outside Spain is an amazing story in itself. A Frenchman called Jean de Bretigny (1556-1634) whose...

I was taught in my young Protestant days that the Church in the era prior to the Reformation had fallen into a universal and hopeless...

I will never forget my first visit to Lourdes: I am thinking about it because today is St Bernadette's feast day. Those nightly...

I came across this quotation from St Teresa of the Andes, whose Feast Day was last week. I found it on the Facebook site of The Friends...

One of the most fascinating aspects of our faith is the veneration of so many persons who lived 'hidden' lives and died young. We are...

I have mentioned the passing of Fr Aloysius before - he left us on 14 March. Now I learn a little bit more about him from the bulletin...

I have been reading the recently-published and well-publicised book by Catherine Coldstream about her time in a Carmelite monastery -...

The latest issue of Communicationes, the bulletin sent out at intervals from our Rome HQ, contains the news that our current celebration...