Author: Mary Ryan

(This prayer is used by the Carmelites during the Feast Day Novena) St. Therese, Flower of fervor and love, please intercede for us. Fill our

As Queen, whenever we seek the right path, she guides us. As Mother, whatever we encounter, she watches over us. As Sister, wherever life leads,

The Center for Carmelite Studies at the Catholic University of America is co-sponsoring with the Carmelite Institute of North America the following summer symposium.  For

Into the Land of Carmel Retreat is a five day retreat in the Carmelite Tradition in Darien, Illinois. For all the details click here carmelitespiritualcenter.

Topic: “Jesus and the End: The Problem of Contingency”  Sponsored by the Center for Carmelite Studies and the Biblical Area of the School of Theology

Topic: “Jesus and the End: The Problem of Contingency”  Sponsored by the Center for Carmelite Studies and the Biblical Area of the School of Theology

In this Year of St Joseph, Patron and Principal Protector of the Carmelite Order, the Center for Carmelite Studies is co-sponsoring an event with the

 Professor Keith Egan, Ph.D. T.O.Carm. attracted a wide and very  appreciative audience to the First Annual Lecture in Carmelite Studies. In a very scholarly and

In Carmelite depictions of Mary there is very rarely a crown?  A well-known quotation from Saint Thérèse of Lisieux explains this: “Mary is more mother than queen.” 

On the Feast of St. John of the Cross, Rev. Prof. Steven Payne, O.C.D., gave the inaugural (virtual) lecture entitled The Dark Night of the Soul,