By: Father William Harry, O.Carm., NGO Director of Communications Representatives from four branches of the Carmelite Family and five different Carmelite provinces participated in the 61st Annual DPI/NGO Conference at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, on September 3-5, 2008. The event celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. The ten Carmelites participating joined some 1400 members of over 535 NGOs from around the world. It was the first time the conference was not ...

by Erika Hayasaki, Los Angeles Times October 20, 2003 Nearly 75 people, carrying candles and flags and singing “hallelujah,” marched slowly down Florence Avenue in South Los Angeles on Sunday morning to deliver a 300 pound wooden statue of el Cristo Negro, or the Black Christ, to a nearby church. The Religious symbol, a dark-skinned, intricately carved depiction of Jesus, is a reproduction of a 16th-century bronze sculpture. Thousands of Roman Catholics from throughout Central America and ...

By: Beau Donnelly, Melbourne Weekly Eastern March 1, 2011 Donvale's Brother Sean Keefe never married, but he likes to joke it wasn’t only because he took a vow of chastity. The other reason is that there weren’t enough girls called Janet Lee. ‘‘Both my brothers are married to women called Janet Lee,” he says. It’s a trademark comment from the Kentucky-born larrikin, who this year won Manningham’s Citizen of the Year. “I’m not sure what to think ...

The Carmelite Province of the Most Pure Heart of Mary welcomes the incoming men into our formation program

Alfredo Guillen, O.Carm., professed solemn vows on Wednesday, July 20th, at the parish of Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, In San Salvador Alfredo is our first Salvadoran to profess final vows in the Order. Congratulations, Alfredo! For the upcoming year Alfredo will be residing at Carith House (pre-novitiate) in Chicago, doing a program in spiritual formation at CTU and serving at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Joliet.

Fr. Carl Markelz stands to accept his election as our new Provincial Superior. May God bless him in this new work.

David Genders, O.Carm., was ordained to the priesthood, at Saint Jane's in North Hollywood, California, with Bishop Gerald Wilkerson, auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles presiding.

"It's like opening your gifts before Christmas," was how one member of Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish in Tenafly, New Jersey, described the December 19, 2009 ordination at which one man committed himself to God, to his Carmelite family and to the people of God. Here, in the very space where hundreds step forward each weekend to receive the Eucharist, was the young, diminutive and visibly nervous Marlon Mateo, his face buried in his ...

Young men follow their heart and God's voice on Vocation Discernment Retreat On a cold winter Friday in Chicago, six young men made their way to Carith House, the Pre-Novice community, from across the United States. They came for the annual Carmelite Vocation Discernment Retreat. Those who participated were: Carl Caceres (age 21) from Teaneck,, New Jersey; Devin Ballard (20) from Mission Viejo, California; David Brickman (40) from Los Angeles, California; Mark McGuire (21) from Ann ...

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Tenafly, New Jersey