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
Carmelite pastors and parish workers gather for three days
By Fr. Ritche T. Salgado, O.Carm. The Order of Carmelites in the Philippines recently gathered together the brothers assigned in the different parishes managed by the Order together with lay representatives from these parishes. The colloquium was convened by Fr. Modesto Malandac, O.Carm., convenor of the pastors’ group. The prior of Agusan Carmelite Monastery, Fr. Marvin Diongzon, O.Carm., welcomed the
Memorial of the Blessed Martyrs of Drina
Today, December 15, is the memorial of the Blessed Martyrs of Drina. Blessed Jula Ivanisevic, Berchmana Leidenix, Krizina Bojanc, Antonija Fabjan, and Bernadeta Banja were all members of the Daughters of Divine Charity. They served the poor in the Serbian village of Pale. Anti-Christian Serb soldiers burned their convent in late 1941. The sisters were kidnapped by these soldiers and
Hands off our truth-tellers – Carmelites
HANDS OFF OUR TRUTH-TELLERS “The press, second only to the churches, is the principal pulpit for teaching truth. It holds the power of the word against the violence of arms.”St. Titus Brandsma The Order of Carmelites – Province of St. Titus Brandsma (Philippines) strongly denounces the red-tagging and eventual censorship of alternative online news outfits, Bulatlat.com and Pinoy Weekly, as