Victimae Paschali laudes
immolent Christiani.

Agnus redemit oves:

Christus innocens Patri

reconciliavit peccatores.

Mors et vita duello

conflixere mirando:

dux vitae mortuus,

regnat vivus…

Scimus Christum surrexisse

a mortuis vere:

Tu nobis, victor Rex miserere

Amen. Alleluia.

In Pascha Domini

A.D. 2010

Fernando Prior Generalis

Domusque Generalis Communitas

Image: Ivan Rupnik, La discesa agli inferi, Sacrestia della Cattedrale di Santa Maria Reale dell’Almudena (Madrid)

Carmelitae Sancti Eliae

In July 1985, three young men joined Fr. Yohannes Indrakusuma to live as hermits. After a year of discernment, the group decided to form a new religious community with the name Carmelitae Sancti Eliae. Weathering initial difficulties, the group has grown steadily.

The Congregation of Carmelitae Sancti Eliae was also affiliated to the Order on December 19, 2002.

Thirty years have passed since the death of Oscar Arnulfo Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, killed whilst at the altar celebrating Mass on 24th March 1980.  The Prior General, Fr. Fernando Millán Romeral, O. Carm., remembered the anniversary in the celebration of the Eucharist during his canonical visit to the Province of Arago-Valentina in Onda, Spain. Last November, the Prior General visited the members of the Carmelite family in El Salvador and, accompanied by many lay Carmelites, celebrated the Eucharist in the crypt of the Cathedral of San Salvador near the tomb of Mons. Oscar Romero.  In his address, the Prior General also recalled the famous homily of Mons. Romero on the Carmelite Scapular.
On the occasion of the visit to El Salvador the Prior General received as a gift a picture portraying Mons. Oscar Romero with the scapular together with Our Lady of Mount Carmel (see the website of the Order: www. ocarm.org). As a reminder of his commitment to Justice and Peace and his devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the painting can now be found in front of the General Council meeting room in the General Curia.

Terenure College is the oldest Carmelite school of modern times and a significant history of the school entitled "Terenure College 1860-2010 - A History" written by Emeritus Professor of History at University College Dublin, Fergus A. D'Arcy, has been published to mark the anniversary. At the end of January, the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese will pay an official visit to the school, and in April of this year the first International Carmelite Schools Congress will take place in Terenure.