Carmel News
Welcome to Carmel News online! As part of our social-pastoral communication ministry, we are featuring selected articles and messages that are relevant to our times and can invite reflection on the part of our readers. Our aim is to help bring people together in this virtual space and offer our experiences in Philippine Carmel to our Carmelite family and friends worldwide. This is our modest contribution to the pursuit of a just and peaceful world where respect and solidarity among nations and love for the whole creation reign.
Preparing to Ascend
Text and photo by Maria del Espiritu Deciding to enter the narrow and steep road and staying on it is a difficult decision to take.
Philippine Carmel Provincial appointed to Carmelite Institute in Rome
By Marc Lester Hallig, O.Carm. Fr. Rico Ponce, O.Carm., Prior Provincial of the Philippine Carmelite Province of St. Titus Brandsma, has just been appointed member of the Scientific Board of the Institutum Carmelitanum. The appointment, made by the General Council, was announced during the Session 158 last May 31. It was formally given on June 13 and signed by Prior
Message: Seek, report, and reveal the truth
Message on the Canonization of St. Titus Brandsma Thank you for inviting us to be here with you tonight and as his excellency Archbishop Charles Brown said during the Thanksgiving Mass, it is a very special occasion and I’m especially happy to be here together with my colleague Monique van Daalen, our temporary ambassador as representatives of the home country
Catechism on Labor
By Church People – Workers Solidarity Overview What is Church Social Teaching? Church social teaching is an instrument for “action in behalf of justice” and “participation to transform the world” in all its dimensions according to the vision of Jesus Christ. (St. Paul VI and St. John Paul II). It is a declaration of the beliefs and principles of the