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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…