SECULAR ORDER OF DISCALCED CARMELITES
England, Wales and Scotland

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...

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. ...