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St. Teresa of Jesus ’de Los Andes’ (OCD), Virgin
13 July Optional Memorial in Latin America
Juana Fernandez Solar was born on 13th July 1900 at Santiago in Chile, to Christian middle-class parents. Two days after her birth, she was baptized. The example and the teaching of her parents were the foundation of her Christian education. She was confirmed on 22th October 1909 and made her First Communion on 11th September 1910.
On 7th May 1919, to the joy of her parents, she joined the Discalced Carmelite nuns in the city of Los Andes, taking the name of Teresa of Jesus.
A Carmelite Incunabulum from 1499
From the General Archives …
A Carmelite Incunabulum from 1499
The General Carmelite Library houses a precious incunabulum containing the Constitutiones Fratrum Ordinis Carmelitarum, edited by the Carmelite Giovanni Maria Polucci and printed in Venice on April 29, 1499, by the renowned printer Lucantonio Giunta.
The volume still displays the graphic and book features typical of contemporary manuscripts: on the opening page, in fact, we can see the beginning of the text in red ink, a calligraphic initial letter, a paragraph mark also in red, and the use of typefaces derived from Gothic script. The text is accompanied by an illustrative woodcut depicting the Annunciation [photo 1].
The same skilled woodcut artist is most likely responsible for the image preceding the opening page, which depicts the Vexilum Carmelitarum, supported by two angels, with the exquisitely crafted effigy of the Virgin of Mount Carmel in the center [photo 2].
The volume closes with a rich and detailed colophon providing information on the content, the printer, the place and date of printing [photo 3].
Novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Province of Australia & Timor-Leste Make Our Lady of Mount Carmel Novena Available to Carmelite Family
The Province of Australia & Timor-Leste had made a novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel available on its website for the wider Carmelite Family. The novena is in English.
For nine days before the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on July 16, we pray for the following intentions for all those in need throughout the world. The novena can be prayed at any time of the year for these intentions or for your own asking Our Lady of Mount Carmel to intercede and pray with us. You are invited to light a candle each day, reflect with the intention and prayer, and spend a few moments in silence with Our Lady. For more information, go to: https://carmelites.org.au/
- Novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel
- Click here to download the prayers and intentions.
Carmelite NGO Communications
One Page
Link to Main Site of the Carmelite NGO
One Page is a periodic newsletter from the Carmelite NGO. It keeps people up-to-date on the issues the NGO is advocating for.
To read or download One Page:
pdf One Page #2 - March, 2026 (162 KB)
pdf One Page #1 - March, 2026 (118 KB)
pdf One Page - February, 2026 (95 KB)
pdf One Page - December, 2025 (126 KB)
pdf One Page - October, 2025 (116 KB)
News and Publications
“For a just transition from fossil fuels”. From carbon domination to the experience of communion
Vice President of the Carmelite NGO
Let’s imagine for a moment that the house where you grew up, the one that holds your most sacred memories, is starting to crack. These are not just stains on the wall; the foundations are giving way.
This is the image Pope Francis presented to us in his 2023 apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum (LD), in which he warned: “The world that welcomes us is crumbling and may be approaching a breaking point” (LD 2).
We are no longer talking about distant climate change or cold statistics; we are talking about a system in clear decline that undermines the sustainability of life as we have known it. For decades, our economy has functioned as if the goods of the earth (“resources,” some call them) were infinite, trapped in what the Church calls the technocratic paradigm (Laudato Si' (LS), 101), believing that unlimited power and consumption are the only way forward.
Carmelite NGO Urges Renewed Global Action on Poverty and Inequality at UN Social Development Meeting
I am writing this from the United Nations headquarters in New York just as the 64th annual meeting of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD64) approaches its conclusion. While here, I have attended various plenary sessions and side events.
A recurring theme during this year’s gathering was the importance of the Doha Political Declaration, the document that came out of the Second World Summit for Social Development, held in Doha, Qatar, this past November.
From the Silence of Belém to the Hope of Santa Marta: Reconfiguring Climate Multilateralism
— Eduardo Agosta Scarel, O. Carm.
Director of the Department of Integral Ecology, Spanish Episcopal Conference
COP30, held in Belém do Pará, Brazil, left behind a bittersweet taste. The Brazilian presidency managed to imbue the final document with a humanist narrative that recognized the rights of indigenous peoples, the vital importance of the Amazon, and the ecological debt derived from historical emissions. However, the summit once again stumbled over the usual obstacle: the consensus rule.
The result was a text that, despite its symbolic gestures, failed on two points essential to integral ecology. In terms of mitigation, the explicit reference to the need to abandon fossil fuels disappeared, replaced by vaguer goals of achieving carbon neutrality by mid-century. In terms of financing, although the scientific urgency of mobilizing $1.3 trillion annually was recognized, the political goal was set at a mere $300 billion, thus institutionalizing a financial gap that perpetuates injustice.
Carmelite NGO Presents at Socio-Environmental Dialogue for Peace: Adaptation and Just Transition
Ten years after Laudato Si’, the encyclical of Pope Francis that inspired a new environmental ethic and shaped the moral vision that accompanied the Paris Agreement, a renewed call emerges: there can be no lasting peace without harmony with nature.
At COP30 the organization Socio-Environmental Dialogue for Peace offered a meeting space to connect peace, climate adaptation, and a just transition, strengthening trust among communities, companies, and institutions. The objective is to move towards cooperation based on integrity and justice, reconciling people with one another and with the planet.
Carmelite NGO Has Active Presence at COP 30 in Brazil
The Climate Summit in Belém, Brazil: Just Another Summit?
— Eduardo Agosta Scarel, O. Carm. Director of the Department of Integral Ecology, Spanish Episcopal Conference
(Published in VIDA NUEVA digital, Monday, November 3, 2025)
From November 6 to 21 this year, COP 30 will be held in Belém, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon. Ten years after the Paris Agreement, this climate summit transcends the usual diplomatic calendar to become an event of profound symbolism. As stated by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the summit will be an opportunity for the world to discuss the importance of the Amazon within the Amazon itself, listening directly to its peoples.1
The conference agenda is anchored in crucial mandates that will define the trajectory of global climate action for the next decade. It inherits from COP 28 the task of responding to the first Global Stocktake, which concluded that current efforts are insufficient to limit warming to 1.5°C and called for the submission of a new and more ambitious round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), or national climate action plans by February 2025. It will also need to build on the financial commitments established at the last COP 29, particularly with regard to the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG), which will replace the target of $100 billion per year in aid to countries affected by climate change.
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Bl. Giovanna Scopelli, virgin
July 9 | Memorial
Born in Reggio Emilia, Italy, in 1439, Bl. Jane Scopelli began her religious life at home living as a Carmelite mantellata (member of a Carmelite lay confraternity, wearing the white cloak or mantella). In 1480, after the death of her parents, she formed a community with a number of other like-minded women.
A few years later, in 1485, she acquired the house and the church belonging to the Humiliate in Reggio Emilia which she converted into a monastery. The nuns became known locally as "The White Nuns". The new community was affiliated to the Reformed Congregation of Mantua. Blessed Jane held the position of prioress in the community which grew to number twenty nuns. Many supernatural events were attributed to her and she was gifted with a great devotion to Our Lady, while living an intensely penitential life. She died on 9th July 1491 and her liturgical cult was approved by Pope Clement XIV in 1771.
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Celebrating At Home - 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Towards a Love Beyond Labels
(Luke 10:25-37)
Pope Francis said society creates “an adjective culture” that prefers to immediately label people as good or bad. Jesus, he said, breaks the mentality that separates, excludes, isolates and belittles the person.
A good example of what the pope said is found in the parable in today’s Gospel. The very fact that we know the story as, ‘The Good Samaritan’ seems to imply that he is the exception, that most Samaritans are ‘bad’. That’s certainly how Jesus’ audience would have viewed Samaritans.
Ideas of hospitality, welcoming the stranger and caring for those in need held a very high place in Jewish scriptures, spirituality and practice. The practise of these virtues was long recognised as responding to the Word (God’s Law) placed in the believer’s heart. That is, acting after God’s own heart.
Asking who is my neighbour (who is ’in’ or ‘out’) is the wrong question according to Jesus. Rather, one should ask, “How should a member of God’s chosen people act?” In the parable it is not a member of the Chosen People who acts after God’s heart, but an outsider, a Samaritan. It is he who shows how a member of God’s people should act towards those in need. He does not ask, “Who is my neighbour”; he shows himself to be a neighbour and a person after God’s own heart by the lavish way he helps the man in need.
This is ‘loving with all one’s heart’. Can we go and do the same?
- pdf Celebrating At Home - 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time [PDF] (3.44 MB)
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- pdf Celebrando en Familia - XV Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario (473 KB)
- pdf Celebrando in Casa - XV Domenica del Tempo Ordinario (457 KB)
- pdf Celebrando em família - XV Domingo do Tempo Comum (467 KB)
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Carmelite Nuns in Jesi Holds Elective Chapter
Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Jesi Holds Elective Chapter
On Friday, June 20th the Carmelite community of the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Jesi (Italy) held their elective chapter.
The monastery was founded in 1684 by Cardinal Pietro Matteo Petucci († 1701), bishop of Aesinate. He changed the Franciscan Tertiaries, Aesinate ascetics, founded in 1660 into Carmelites. A few years later, in 1697, they received the papal cloister, passing to the Second Order. Around 1822, the Carmelite nuns of Montecarotto were received when their monastery was extinguished. Pope Pius IX visited the Aesinate monastery in May 1857. In 1965, a daughter monastery was founded in Montegnacco di Cassacco, and in 1979 the monastery of Carpineto Romano was founded.
The website for the Jesi monastery is: www.carmelitanejesi.com
Those elected to leadership are:
Prioress | Priora | Priora:
Sr. Alma M. Joseph di Gesù Crocifisso
1st Councilor | 1ª Consejera | 1ª Consigliera:
Sr. M. Giovanna Francesca Dei Verbum
2nd Councilor | 2ª Consejera | 2ª Consigliera:
Sr. M. Chiara dell'Eucaristia
Treasurer | Ecónoma | Economa
Sr. M. Chiara dell'Eucaristia
Formator | Formadora | Formatrice
Sr. Alma M. Joseph di Gesù Crocifisso
Sacristan | Sacristán | Sacrestana:
Sr. M. Giovanna Francesca Dei Verbum
Carmelite Nuns Held Elective Chapter in Barcelona
Elective Chapter Held in the Monastery of the Incarnation in Barcelona, Spain
The Carmelite nuns of the Monastery of the Incarnation in Barcelona, Spain, recently held their triennial, elective chapter.
The monastery was founded in 1649 by Srs. Gertrude of the Infant Jesus and Teresa of Jesus, two nuns from the monastery of Vilafranca del Penedès. Ven. Eulalia of the Cross, a mystic and author of several works, lived there, dying in 1721. This monastery founded the Carmelite monasteries in Valls, Vic, and Tarrega. In 1983, the community founded the monastery of Porlamar on the Isla Margarita.
The monastery is part of the Virgo Flos Carmeli Federation. The webpage of the monastery is: www.carmelitasbcn.org. The Facebook page is: carmelo.laencarnacion
The following nuns were elected to leadership:
Prioress | Priora | Priora:
Sr. Hna. María Jacinta Mutio Muithya
1st Councilor | 1ª Consejera | 1ª Consigliera:
Sr. María del Carmen Izquierdo Marín
2nd Councilor | 2ª Consejera | 2ª Consigliera:
Sr. Maria Joana Josa
Treasurer | Ecónoma | Economa
Sr. María Jacinta Mutio Muithya
Formator | Formadora | Formatrice
Sr. María del Carmen Izquierdo Marín
Sacristan | Sacristán | Sacrestana:
Sr. María Elizabeth Mbovi Mutisya
Bl. Maria Crocifissa Curcio, Virgin
4 July Optional Memorial in the Italian provinces
Mother M. Crocifissa Curcio was born on 30 January 1877 in Ispica (Rg), Italy. From the time of her adolescence she realised that she was called to follow Christ in a radical manner, Christ whose loving Mother of Carmel was entrusting her with the task of making Carmel flourish once more in her town as well as in others.
