On October 18, 2025, the feast of St. Luke, the Betica Province in Spain celebrated the 34th Carmelite Family Gathering. On this occasion, the event took place in El Viso del Alcor (Seville), in the centenary year of the founding of the Brotherhood and Confraternity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in that town.
More than one hundred people attended, not counting the religious of the province who accompanied the different groups from seventeen different locations throughout our geography (Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, TOC, confraternities, teachers from our schools, and parishioners). Of particular note was the presence of the prior general of the Order, Fr. Desiderio García Martínez, who, in addition to presiding over the Eucharist of the meeting, gave a beautiful and moving lecture on the life and experience of faith of Fray Pablo María de la Cruz.
