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3 days ago · Saint Teresa of Avila. Feast Day: October 15 – CNA. On Oct. 15, Roman Catholics celebrate the Spanish Carmelite reformer and mystic St. Teresa of Avila, whose life of prayer enriched the Church during the 16th century counter-reformation.
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8 hours ago · On May 13, 1949, the first Carmelite Sisters arrived in Cebu City, central Philippines. Four years earlier, World War II had ended, and the Philippines was still trying to recover from its ravages. Jaro Carmel, believed to be the oldest monastery in the Philippines, inspired the founding of Cebu Carmel. In November last year, the Carmelite ...
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3 days ago · Canonically, each Carmelite monastery is under either the jurisdiction of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, or under the jurisdiction of the local ordinary. The “local ordinary” is the bishop in whose diocese the monastery is established. In order to make a foundation, a Carmel needs, among other things, the permission of the local ordinary.
1 day ago · The four monks explained their project to Miss Elizabeth Pierce, a lay woman who later became a Carmelite nun, who was moved by the monks’ intention and provided them with 500 acres of land in ...
3 days ago · v. t. e. Teresa of Ávila, OCD ( Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada; 28 March 1515 – 4 or 15 October 1582), [a] also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Carmelite nun and prominent Spanish mystic and religious reformer . Active during the Counter-Reformation, Teresa became the central figure of a movement of spiritual and monastic ...
