“Stella Maris” Monastery
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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 […]
The bells of Mount Carmel
The bells with their festive ringing always call us to the church. In ancient times, the bell was the signal and sound to communicate. There was a way of ringing which is called tocsin for announcing an imminent danger, with a quick and steady touch. Then there is the sound to announce a deceased in […]
Week of prayer for the unity of Christians
The week of prayer for Christian unity is approaching. Here in the Holy Land the diversity and unity of the different religious creeds is felt. He who writes, on Sunday 5 celebrated the Eucharist at 8.00 in the morning at the Basilica of Mount Carmel accompanied by the Melkite-Greek bishop of Galilee, who attended the […]
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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 […]
We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God
Dear Brothers and Sisters, This year the Lord grants us, once again, a favorable time to prepare to celebrate with renewed hearts the great mystery of the death and resurrection of Jesus, the cornerstone of our personal and communal Christian life. We must continually return to this mystery in mind and heart, for it will […]
Peace as a path of hope: dialogue, reconciliation and ecological conversion
On December 12, 2019, at 11.30 a.m., the press conference of the Holy Father’s Message for the 53rd World Day of Peace was held at the Press Office of the Holy See, to be held on 1 January 2020. It is divided into five points. Way of hope The first of these is called «Peace, […]
Synod in the Amazon
According to the directives of the Second Vatican Council, the church is putting into practice the guidelines of a pastoral ministry embodied in the world. The Amazon is a place that concerns everyone, where many global challenges of our time concern everyone. Among the topics addressed were the tragedy of drug trafficking and its consequences. […]
«Chistus vivit»: Apostolic Exhortation to young people and to the entire people of God
« Christ is alive! ». He is our hope, and in a wonderful way he brings youth to our world. If Christ is young, the Church is young too. The Pope asks the Lord to free the Church from those who would make her grow old, encase her in the past, hold her back or […]
Abu Dhabi : Sign Historic of the Declaration for World Peace and Living Together
His Holiness Pope Francis and His Eminence the Grand Imam of Al Azhar Dr. Ahmed At-Tayyeb have signed the historic Abu Dhabi Declaration – a document on Human Fraternity in the United Arab Emirates. The «Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together» seeks to encourage stronger relationships between people to promote coexistence among peoples […]
Spirituality
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 […]
Joy, freedom and beauty in the itinerary to God
Now that we are so close to Christmas, we remember so many texts of Luke where the characters that in themselves do not have much to exult … but finding the child Jesus -God-with-us- was filled with great joy. The Magi also experienced great joy, the shepherds were still the first … the joy of […]
St. Teresa of Avila: «I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever!»
The evangelical realism of Therese shows us how close God is to man and that the reality of him attracts his mercy. Faced with the need of the man, Therese brings the transcendent answer of the divine mercy. The world is the place of the concrete liberation of man by God. Faced with a broken […]
The Relics of Little Therese in Egypt
«I would like to travel the earth, to preach your name, but O my Beloved God, one mission alone would not be enough, I would like to announce the Gospel in the five parts of the world and even in the most remote islands … not only for a few years. I would like to […]
The Assumption of the Virgin Mary … source of hope
Our love for Mary, figure of the Church wife, is a way of reminding us that holiness is not just an individual matter. Mary welcoming the One who gives his life for his wife and who unites her as his own Body, makes visible in her person the fullness of the gift of the Holy […]
The imitation of the «Sister» – Our Lady of Mount Carmel
On this feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, let’s rethink a little bit about what means the title of «Sister». The first text where the Carmelites give to Mary the title of «Sister» was «The institution of the first monks», famous work published at the end of the XIV century. This name, so sympathetic, […]
