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This blog will be suspended until Monday 20 October.  I will be going to Derry to take part in a Symposium organised by the Carmelites at...

On this the feast day of our newest Doctor of the Church, John Henry Newman, I discover that there is a recent book which compares Newman...

I have been working for a long time now on a book on the legacy of St Teresa, and one of the most interesting parts of this book concerns...

“ T he Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught,unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls,precisely because it involves the...

The Office of Readings for today contains some pearls from the wonderful St Ambrose (c.339-397), Bishop of Milan.  I often remember him...

Fr Matt Blake shocked us all when he was addressing our Central Regional Day last Saturday:  he told us that when someone complained to...

‘ When one loves, one does not calculate’.  My thanks to S, a Secular I saw last Saturday at the OCDS Central Regional Day, for this...

When I first came to Carmel it was St John of the Cross and St Teresa who inspired me most.  I had read Story of a Soul by St Therese...

We celebrate the feast day today of a man who was an important friend of St Teresa – St Francis Borgia SJ (1510-1572) .  A college of the...

The news that Pope Leo is to pronounce St John Henry Newman a doctor of the Church on 1 November incites me to revisit St Teresa...

In the Virtual (Zoom) Carmel meeting last night we were looking at Chapter 38 of Teresa’s Way of Perfection.  She talks there about how...

Prayers are asked for the soul of Sue Burton who has just died.  She was the wife of our marvellous webmaster Tim Burton OCDS.  Having...

Yesterday I came across mention of a wonderful Carmelite congregation previously unknown to me:  The Handmaids of Our Lady of Mount...

I love this comparison I found on the net (Suzie Andres on 'Catholic Exchange') between today’s saint, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, and our...

I caught this news item on Catholic internet sites.  It is a reminder that some of our fellow Carmelites are victims of persecution....

In preparation for the triennial OCDS Presidents’ Conference in Leeds that begins tonight, I have been pondering the impact of the...

A saint who shared the levitation experience with our Teresa, and who suffered for it - St Joseph of Cupertino (1603-1663) - whose feast...

Sad news from Tanzania, where four members of the Carmelite Missionary Sisters of St Therese of the Child Jesus were killed in a road...

I am looking forward to the triennial OCDS Presidents’ Conference next weekend at Hinsley Hall in Leeds, although I am not looking...

I see that the current issue of our journal Mount Carmel (produced by the Friars at Boars Hill) is on the interesting theme ‘Carmel and...