Participating and contributing with the nuns were Father Abdo (Assistant for the Association of the Carmelites in the Holy Land), Msg. Jean Sleiman (Latin Archbishop of Baghdad), Fr. Enrique (Delegate for Israel), Fr. Patrizio (Delegate for Egypt),…
The little Arab, our holy Carmelite of Bethlehem, never ceased to radiate prayerful fervor, especially since her canonization on the 17 May 2015. The pilgrimage of her relics was an occasion embracing a message of prayer…
This quotation from the preface of the Solemnity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, explicitly expresses the meaning of the Carmelite habit. The hermits of Mount Carmel, from the very beginning of their life in Palestine,…
On the 6th of August we will celebrate Our Lord’s Transfiguration: the day when his body, similar to ours, was clothed in a radiant and brilliant light. We read, as described in St. Mark, that Jesus…
It’s a good time to awaken our hearts to what should be our ordinary attitude. But the liturgy is at the service of our normal way of being a Christian “always ready to give an account…
There is, as underlying in the doctrine of St. John of the Cross, this thrust, this need to go to God. This is a point that is not usually mentioned, which seems to me essential. There is…
“To celebrate Christmas, then, is to receive on earth the surprises of Heaven. We cannot simply live an earthly existence when Heaven has brought its news to the world. Christmas inaugurates a new epoch where life is…
It is a text that has been given honest and serious thought so as to be a joint declaration of good and heartfelt aspirations. It is a document that invites all persons who have faith in God and faith in human fraternity to unite and work together so that it may serve as a guide for future generations to advance a culture of mutual respect in the awareness of the great divine grace that makes all human beings brothers and sisters.
“Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen.” (Lk. 24,5)
Haifa 1919-2019
“Spes nostra, salve”, these words of the Salve Regina that we sing every Saturday in Carmel, repeat to the Blessed Virgin that she is our hope.