Individual men began to assemble on Mount Carmel during the Crusades, largely because that place was associated with the great prophet Elijah. We know that most of these individuals were Europeans who had come east with the crusaders, but there is no evidence how many may have been knights, hermits, pilgrims, merchants, sailors, or ordinary soldiers.
Immediately after her conversion she wanted to join a Carmelite convent. However, her spiritual mentors, Vicar-General Schwind of Speyer, and Erich Przywara SJ, stopped her from doing so. Until Easter 1931 she held a position teaching German and history at the Dominican Sisters' school and teacher training college of St. Magdalen's Convent in Speyer.
Titus Brandsma, Dutch priest, educator, journalist and modern mystic, has much to say to Twenty-first Century Christians. His joyful countenance in the face of chronic illness and finally, at the torturous hands of the Nazi’s, is a study in humankind’s sharing of its portion of the Cross of Christ.
John Soreth is a Prior General who dramatically changed Carmelite life for the better. Some even credit his reforms for enabling the Carmelite Order to survive the spiritual earthquake of the Reformation.
Vatican Radio's Veronica Scarisbrick convinces popular 'Latin Lover', Father Reginald Foster OCarm who spent almost all of his life as papal Latinist, to explain all things Carmelite,
In honor of today's Feast of the Solemnity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel we have created a series of eight excerpts/prayer cards from the sequence read during the liturgy before today's gospel.
In a world known for its callous disregard for the poor and downtrodden, the example of Angelo Paoli is a refreshing breath of air. Angelo cared so well for his unfortunate brothers and sisters that he was known as “Father Charity” or “Father of the Poor.”
The Provincial Council meets six times a year at different locations throughout the province. This week the meeting is taking place in Lima, Peru. The slide show below highlights the council's visit to these dynamic Carmelite missions.
On a busier-than-usual Tuesday morning recently, I find myself loading my car with cases of bulky camera equipment before driving to an important event
Many Carmelite saints have come from colorful backgrounds, but very few from the highest ranks of the nobility. Frances d’Amboise is one of the exceptions.
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