SECULAR ORDER OF DISCALCED CARMELITES
England, Wales and Scotland

I was talking to a friend who is setting up a new Secular group in a cafe in the middle of Manchester. I must confess, I looked a bit...

Last night was the night for the monthly meeting of our Carmelite Virtual Community. A small group of us meets on zoom for an hour and a...

Something seems to be happening out there. I hear of a new group starting up in Manchester in April (see 'latest news' on the website.) ...

The Secular Carmelites are not generally organised in parish groups, for members come from different parishes, sometimes at quite a...

At the Seculars meeting in Romsey, Hampshire last Saturday we enjoyed a visit from Sister Veronica of the Dominican Sisters of St Joseph,...

Yesterday I learned that the Carmelite convent in Ronda in Southern Spain is likely to close down soon. They are down to four Sisters. ...

Today's Office of Readings contains a passage from and Early Church Father that looks as if it is designed specially for us Seculars...

Today is the feast of St Claude de la Colombiere (1643-1682). This French Jesuit should be especially close to the hearts of British...

I worked for a Catholic Charity as a fund-raiser for twenty-three years. I was tasked with travelling round the parishes and appealing...

I have recently heard sad stories from one or two Secular Carmelite groups of destructive conflict and clashes that have led to decline. ...

Some of our Secular meetings devote time to one or other version of lectio divina, a traditional method of meditation on Scripture...

We had our St Elijah Seculars Community meeting last night and we were talking about how to make the meetings better known. We started...

Yesterday I had the great delight of attending a new Carmelite meeting in Northampton. Yes, we were only five - but we did an impressive...

News comes of one of Teresa's devoted early followers, Anne of Jesus (Ana de Lobera y Torres (1545-1621), whom Teresa called 'The...

The Communicationes, bulletin sent out from Rome to Secular Carmelites with news from around the world makes fascinating reading. Today...

In my last post I wrote about the South African-born poet Roy Campbell (1901-1957), translator of the poems of St John of the Cross, and...

I have only just discovered the extraordinary story of how during the Spanish Civil War the South African-born poet Roy Campbell,...

I recently had the privilege of meeting Paul Weindling, a scholar who has written a marvellously sensitive and meticulous biography of...

We are approaching the Feast Day of Blessed Marie-Eugene on Sunday 4 February. Notre Dame de Vie - the worldwide Carmelite movement...

When you take your first steps in Carmel you have a mentor, and then you spend five years in formation; you make your first promise after...