SECULAR ORDER OF DISCALCED CARMELITES
England, Wales and Scotland

I love it when I come across the quiet saints who have never become globally famous. Today in the Carmelite calendar we celebrate...

Last night we had the latest edition of our 'Virtual Carmel'. Set up mainly for Seculars who have become isolated from groups for...

Yesterday we had a meeting of the presidents of the Oxford Secular Communities. Technically there are four, although one of them (the St...

It's easy to get discouraged as time passes when we think we will be growing in our resistance to the devil and all his works and we...

I have just joined in Morning Prayer on screen with a group based in Devon. This is the kind of thing many of us take for granted in...

In a Seculars group meeting on Saturday the discussion turned to spiritual sharing and we agreed that it is often difficult to raise...

A while ago my friend and Secular Carmelite colleague Tony, co-owner of a Christian bookshop, was facing along with his business partner...

I spent part of yesterday with an inspirational person, a lady with an unusual story. After a marriage annulment, she tried her vocation...

Last night we had a 'Going Deeper' meeting in our parish. It's a small group that gathers once a month to say evening prayer, to study a...

How many spiritual teachers operate the way St John of the Cross does? I mean, writing a poem and then providing an extensive commentary...

We started the new Coventry Seculars Group on Saturday last at Christ the King, Coventry. Two of the persons attending were formerly...

Our Secular community met last night and we started on the discussion of the first materials of Story of a Soul to be sent out this year...

I am working on a talk about Blessed Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus (1894-1967), to be given on 3 February, the eve of his Feast Day. ...

I have been continuing to read about Archbishop Fulton Sheen in a book simply entitled America's Bishop. He was probably the most famous...

Leafing through the Christmas Newsletter of the OCD Home Regions I came across a reminder of one of my favourite stories about Therese...

It's always exciting when a new group begins. That is happening at Christ the King church in Coventry on Saturday next, 13 January. ...

The readings at this season remind us not just of the illustrious Epiphany visitors to the cradle of Our Lord, but of the flight of the...

If you have Universalis on your computer, you can follow the Carmelite option in the calendar, and then you are alerted to Carmelite...

Among the multitude of admirers of St Therese (whose birthday was yesterday) may be found not a few famous names, including Archbishop...

Materials have just arrived from Rome to help us continue our studies of the thinking of St Therese of Lisieux into 2024. Secular groups...