Communicationes ÁVILA-SPAIN (28-04-2012).- The Fourth Iberian Congress of the Secular Carmel began In the evening hours today. It will be celebrated in Ávila through next Tuesday, May 1, and brings together more than 150 participants.
Secular Carmelites, provincial delegates, and assistants from all over Spain and Portugal are meeting in the International Teresian-Sanjuanista Center of Avila (CITeS).
Communicationes ÁVILA-SPAIN (26-04-2012).- August 24 will be the 450th anniversary of the foundation of the convent of Saint Joseph of Ávila by Saint Teresa of Jesus. It was the first of a total of 17 Teresian foundations running up the length of Spain’s geography.
Communicationes ROME-ITALY (25-04-2012).- The Father General and the Definitory have appointed Father Alzinir Debastiani of the Province of Saint Joseph in southeast Brazil as the new General Delegate of the Secular Carmel.
Father Alzinir was born in 1962 in Abdon Batista, in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. He pronounced his first profession in 1984 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1991.
VOLUME EMBODIES THE INTERNATIONAL RECEPTION OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EDITH STEIN
Communicationes COLOGNE-GERMANY (22-04-2012).- The church of the Discalced Carmelites in Cologne was the meeting place of a distinguished group of people today, among whom were the auxiliary bishop of Cologne, Heiner Koch, to celebrate the 90th birthday of Sister Maria Amata Neyer, OCD.
The Mother prioress, Teresa Ancilla Wißling, gave an initial greeting after which Dr.
Communicationes ROME-ITALY (03-04-2012).- According to today’s news bulletin of the Holy See, Carmelite bishop, Cástor Oswaldo Azuaje Pérez, has been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as Bishop of Trujillo, in Venezuela.