“Stella Maris” Monastery
Local Church
Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Patriach of Jerusalem
Most Reverend Excellencies Your Excellencies the Consul Generals of Jerusalem Dear priests, religious and faithful, The Lord give you Peace! “Non est hic, surrexit enim sicut dixit” (Mt 28,6). Al Masih kam, haqan kam “He is not here! He is risen as He said” (Mt. 28:6) Here we are, again, in front of the Empty […]
A Carmelite interpretation of the Jewish holiday of Sukkoth
The word «sukkoth» is the plural of the Hebrew word sukah which means «hut». The term sukah in the common language indicates precisely the hut that is built for the celebration of the feast in memory of the period “in the desert” after the biblical Exodus of the Jewish people after having been in Egypt. […]
Prayer to the Mother of Carmel
Dear Virgin of the Scapular, I have to say that our humble brother and great worker Luigi Poggi so many years ago, when he thought of you and manufactured you, leaned on his personal devotion, expressing the sense of beauty: and this year it is one hundred and once you come down from Mount , […]
Prosper of the Holy Spirit, restorer of the Holy Mount Carmel
The baptismal name of Father Prosper of the Holy Spirit[1] was Martín Garaizabal Jiménez who was born in Nalda (La Rioja) Spain on May 22, 1583. He was baptized on June 17, 1583 in the church of his hometown. We know a little about his childhood and youth from a letter he wrote from Mount […]
Chile and the monument to the Mother of Carmel
In the esplanade between the convent of Mount Carmel and the Stella Maris lodge, a bronze statue of the Virgen of Carmen has been found since 1894, which was a gift from the nation of Chile to its patron and protector the Virgen of Carmel. In fact we read this in the plaque of the […]
The convent of Jerusalem
We had to wait until the 20th century for Discalced Carmelites Fathers had a convent in the capital of the Holy Land. On March 9, 1934, the new convent of Discalced Carmelites Fathers in Jerusalem is blessed. The chosen place was provisional, and it belonged to Dominicans Fathers. (The figure of Fr. Lagrange, OP appears […]
The fauna of Mount Carmel
When I was a young philosophy student, I remember the sentence of an Asturian Carmelite father who spoke to us about the fauna of Carmel to refer to the brothers of the Discalced Carmelite Order. It was a kind of joke to make us see the variety of people and styles that were and are […]
Current news
Earth Day: “We have the means to face the challenge”
In a video message, the Pope warns: the movement to destroy nature is very difficult to curb, but “there is still time” if “we work together instead of doing it alone”. For a long time now, we have become more aware that nature deserves to be protected, and that human interactions with the biodiversity that […]
PATRIS CORDE, Apostolic Letter about Saint Joseph, patron of the Universal Church
On the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of Saint Joseph as patron of the universal church. WITH A FATHER’S HEART: that is how Joseph loved Jesus, whom all four Gospels refer to as “the son of Joseph”.[1] Matthew and Luke, the two Evangelists who speak most of Joseph, tell us very little, yet enough for […]
«All brothers» – the latest Encyclical letter from Pope Francis
What are the great ideals but also the concretely practicable ways for those who want to build a more just and fraternal world in their daily relationships, in society, in politics, in institutions? With this Encyclical, signed on 3 October 2020, in Assisi, on the vigil of the feast of St. Francis, the Pope intends […]
WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE CARE OF CREATION
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Each year, particularly since the publication of the Encyclical Laudato Si’ (LS, 24 may 2015), the first day of September is celebrated by the Christian family as the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation and the beginning of the Season of Creation, which concludes on the feast of Saint Francis […]
In streaming with the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel
Dear brothers, sisters, friends, We inform you that from our website carmelholylanddco.org in a testing phase you can watch 24/24 in streaming… the central altar of our Basilica of Stella Maris and pray and contemplate the Virgin of Mount Carmel and the cave of the Prophet Elijah in real time from any place in the […]
5th anniversary of the Laudato sì
Loving God, Creator of heaven and earth and all that is in them, You created us in your image and make us stewards of all your creation, of our common home. You blessed us with the sun, water and bountiful land so that all might be nourished. Open our minds and touch our hearts, so […]
A shining witness in the time of the corona-virus
Never in the darkest nightmares did I imagine that I could see and experience what has been going on here in our hospital for three weeks. The nightmare continues, the river is getting bigger and bigger. At first a few came, then dozens and then Hundreds and now we are no longer doctors, but we […]
Spirituality
The Week of Christian Unity in confinement mode
Prayer for Christian unity is of course not a 20th century initiative: Christians have never ceased to pray, in so many ways, for their reconciliation. But it was in 1908, in the United States, that this prayer took the particular form that we know today, that of an “octave” between January 18 (which was the […]
Walking with St. John of the Cross – Meditations from the Muhraqa
God, you love me even in the night, because in the night you speak to me. You, O God, are the center of my soul, you are there, in a very mysterious and very incomprehensible way, but you are there! Something good must happen, in the life of each of us, to discover your loving […]
Walking with Saint Teresa
I have never liked saints who follow certain guidelines and whose qualities have been defined from an early age. St. Teresa is a woman with an impressive range of possibilities and she surprises us at every turn, and precisely for this reason, I think she is a great help for those of us who, especially […]
Elijah in the life of Saint Mariam of Jesus Crucified
The Carmelite Sisters of Bethlehem give us the joy of sharing with the readers of Carmel’s magazine, these texts from the reserved notebooks in which Elijah manifests himself to Mariam. Elijah lives! He continues to act in the Church, in Carmel and in the lives of the saints. Just as Saint Elijah was close to […]
An ancient prayer to the Virgin Mary to invoke her protection in this time of the corona virus
It is an ancient prayer, recited in the past, in difficult times for Christians, which is still used today by people of different languages and origins to invoke the powerful intercession of Mary. This prayer, which we know in Italian and other languages, is actually a translation of an ancient Latin prayer that dates back […]
Way of the cross
O merciful Lord, our Master, we want to faithfully follow you; we want to imitate you in our life in an ever more perfect way. Through the meditation of your passion, grant us the grace to better understand the mysteries of the spiritual life. Mary, Mother of Mercy, always faithful to Christ, guide us on […]
Love, the source of all conversion
Millions of people call themselves Christians, believing, in many cases, to have converted to Christianity. Now, is this the case? What is conversion exactly? To convert is to change. Consider the shimmering color butterfly. Before becoming this beautiful insect, it looked like something else. It was, to begin with, a tiny egg practically invisible to […]
