The Endowed Carmelite Chair and Center for Carmelite Studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, was inaugurated on Tuesday, October 15, 2019. Below are the homily given at the inaugural Mass by the Very Rev. William J. Harry, O. Carm., Prior Provincial of the Province of the Most Pure Heart of Mary, and the Chair Installation speech offered by Fr. Steven Payne, OCD. Homily at the Mass for the Inauguration of the Carmelite ...

We gather to give God thanks and praise for the blessings he has bestowed on us. Pause in silent prayer for a few moments LEADER 1: As with the earliest Carmelites who gathered together at the Garden of God, Mount Carmel, 800 years ago, this Thanksgiving let those of us who have much and those who have little gather at the welcoming table of the Lord. At this blessed feast, may rich and poor alike remember that we ...

On Tuesday, October 15, 2019, the Feast of St. Teresa of Avila, the Catholic University of America inaugurated an Endowed Carmelite Chair and Center for Carmelite Studies, a gift from the Carmelite Province of the Most Pure Heart of Mary, in the presence of various members of the faculty from the School of Theology and Religious Studies, as well as the deans from the various schools on campus. The inauguration began with a lecture by Fernando ...

In his seventy-two years of life, St. Raphael was a teacher, engineer, prisoner of war, royal tutor, and a  Discalced Carmelite friar and priest.  Jozef was born to a noble family on September 1, 1835 in Vilnuis, Lithuania, which was inside the Russian partition of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1853 he enlisted in the Russian Imperial Army and entered an engineering academy. From 1858 to 1860 he worked as an army engineer. Jozef also became ...