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“Rejoice and Be Glad,” Pope Francis’s new apostolic exhortation on “the call to holiness in the modern world,” will be released on April 9, the Vatican has announced. The document, called “Gaudete et Exsultate” in Latin, will be presented at a Vatican news conference by Archbishop Angelo De Donatis, the papal vicar for the Diocese…

When the days in a normal winter, become gradually shorts and the first snowflakes begin to fall, the first thoughts of Christmas arise timidly and quietly.  From the single word, a special charm already emerges, to which hardly a heart can resist. Those who do not share our faith and even non-believers, for whom the…

Elizabeth is an attentive reader of the Word of God.  She discovers in The Word, the designs of God on her and on those whom He calls to follow him. In the last retreat, which she wrote in August 1906, a few weeks before she died, Elizabeth spoke very loudly: «His word –says St. Paul-…

The correspondent of the Vanguard in Beirut, Tomás Alcoberro, reminds us that a friend of his (Antoine Khater), in a corner of the kitchen of his house on the days when the city was being bombed, was totally committed to the translation of the teresian work. Teresa of Avila is difficult to translate. Their language…

Mariam, like all the saints of Carmel, returns us to the requirement of union with God, which is obtained by giving our nothing to his incandescent Love. God wants to do great things in us, yet we want to live and surrender to Him without return. The «little Nothing of Galilee» thus reminds us of…

Elijah’s house is Carmel, an ancient tradition emphasizes that the prophet, called in Arabic, Khader (meaning the green, the living, the one who never dies and is everywhere) still dwells on Mount Carmel, doing so A sacred and venerable place. An ancient legend says that the Family of Nazareth on their return from the exile…

Nazareth is not only the place where Jesus lived during his childhood and adolescence, it is also and especially the place where he became flesh, in the womb of Mary. In the cave is venerated the very special moment in which the angel announced to Mary that in her womb the Son of God would…

At the end of his fast, Jesus saw the spiritual struggle against the Adversary, the Satan who comes to tempt him. During the mission, which takes place in Dijon from 4 March to 2 April 1900, Elizabeth notes in her Journal the strengths of the teaching received. Following the instruction of Saturday, March 18 at…

Saint Mariam of Jesus-Crucified is often called the «little Teresa of the Arab world» in the Holy Land. Born about the same time as Therese, Mariam essentially shared a parallel message of confidence and love in the total gift of self, yet in a different way. One way is completely Western and the other Oriental.…

Friday 23: In the beginning of this time of Christmas, with an ambiance of pluralism,  joy and party, the teaching staff of our «Carmel School» is assembled to exchange the Christmas wishes. First, the teachers of the superior classes and after, those of the elementary ones. In the early morning the superior classes still had…