SECULAR ORDER OF DISCALCED CARMELITES
England, Wales and Scotland

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...

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...