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In preparation for the 2025 Jubilee Year ‘Pilgrims of Hope’, 2024 has been designated a Year of Prayer by Pope Francis. The Carmelite Friars (Order…

Born in the town of Trino in Northern Italy about the middle of the fifteenth century, Archangela took the Carmelite habit in Parma and eventually…

During 2023 the Carmelites formed a partnership with the University of Divinity to take over the management of the Carmelite Library of Spirituality…

CIBI will be closed from Friday, 22 December - Tuesday, 02 January 2024. We would like to wish all our students and alumni a peaceful Christmas and a…

John was born at Fontiveros in Spain about 1542. He entered the a Carmelites and with the permission of his superiors began to live a stricter life.…

Carmelite Spirituality is one of the ancient traditions of the Roman Catholic church. Over the centuries ‘Carmel’ has produced some of the greatest…

This year, the Advent season is the shortest it can be, we just celebrate the Fourth Sunday of Advent as Christmas Day is on the following Monday.…

The highlight of our Academic Year, the graduation ceremony at St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth took place on Saturday 11 November 2023.…

The British Province of Carmelites is arranging a Young Adult Pilgrimage (for those in their 20s and 30s) during Easter week 2024. The walk will…

Elizabeth Catez of the Trinity was born in 1880 in the diocese of Bourges. In 1901 she entered the Discalced Carmelite monastery of Dijon. There she…

In Western Christianity Lectio Divina (Latin for "Divine Reading") is a traditional spiritual practice of scriptural reading, meditation,…

Begin Lent 2024 with two great saints…. Join the Religious of the Assumption and the British Province of Carmelites for a pilgrimage in the footsteps…