NEW BOOK : AND IT YIELDED A HUNDREDFOLD “In
the Liturgical Year A in the Catholic Church’s
lectionary of Scripture readings for Mass, the
Gospel passage almost every Sunday is taken from St.
Matthew. In the New Testament we meet St. Matthew
only indirectly through the Gospel that bears his
name. Matthew’s Gospel is one of the longest books
in the New Testament and has exercised great
influence in Christian life over the centuries. It
has even been called the most important book ever
written. Fr. Rudolf has already published Homilies
for Cycle B and C and now with this publication the
Cycle becomes complete. Though there are a number of
books published to assist Catholic Preachers, the
compendium of Fr. Rudolf is one of its kind, a
treasure to be stored in the book shelf of every
preacher.”: Rev. Dr. Archibald Gonsalves, OCD,
President: IPCI; Provincial: Karnataka Goa Province.
Click here for more
MUSINGS FROM NORTHEAST INDIA Historically CRI was the initiative of Pope Pius XII
who called a Congress of Religious in Rome in 1950
and recommended setting of National Conferences of
Religious. The first meeting of Indian Religious was
at Delhi in 1962. In 1963 the Holy See formally
erected CRI by approving its Statutes. The Golden
Jubilee Celebration of this event was solemnized
from 7-9 November 2013 in Guwahati, aptly dubbed as
the Gateway to the Northeast. The event was attended
by nearly 500 Major Superiors, besides, several
other delegates and religious from around India.
Click here for more
Farewell Programme and Eucharistic Celbration,
Actonville, South Africa Catholic Primary School. On this day the school had
organized a thanksgiving Eucharistic Celebration and
a send-off programme for the 7th grade children. The
liturgy was creatively animated by the children with
a moral skit. During the mass all the outgoing
children were felicitated. Fr. Boniface D’ Souza,
the parish priest presided over the mass and gave an
inspiring homily which touched the hearts of every
children. Fr. Boniface in his homily highlighted the
goals in the life of children, the responsibility of
the children towards the parents, teachers and the
society.
Click here for more
RAISED TO THE PRIESTHOODThe Karnataka-Goa Province has another Priest! The
place was Our Lady of Hope, Chinchinim, Salcette-Goa.
The day was 11th October, 2013, and the person at
the centre of it all was Deacon Mark Peter Furtado.
He had landed in Goa a couple of months ago, after
completing his theological studies in Teresianum,
Rome.
Most Rev. Filipe Neri Ferrão, the
Archbishop-Patriarch of Goa and Daman conferred the
Sacrament of Holy Orders during the Eucharisitic
celebration concelebrated by around 80 Priests in a
Church packed to capacity.
Click here for more
CARMEL FEST 2013 - a mega gathering of our
formees! The maiden attempt to bring together our seminarians
from different stages of formation was a land mark
in the history of the Karnataka-Goa Province. The
planning had begun in February 2013 with a little
seed sown by the Provincial. The Formators along
with the Provincial Councillor in-charge of
formation, formed a core-committee pooling in their
ideas and resources. By August 2013, the four groups
(Mt. Carmel, Avila, Duruelo and Lisieux,) were
formed by diving all the formees from each stage of
formation (EXCLUDING THE NOVICES).
Click here for more
OCDS SPIRITUAL RENEWAL
CONFERENCE AND LOWER MAINLAND OCDS COMMUNITIES
CEREMONIES at St. Edmund’s Parish, North Vancouver,
B.C. It was the First Friday and First Saturday of the
month and a perfect weekend to hold the OCDS
Spiritual Renewal Conference and the Ceremonies of
the Lower Mainland OCDS Communities which was held
at St. Edmund’s Parish, North Vancouver, B.C.
Indeed, great blessings and graces poured down from
heaven on members of the Secular Order of Discalced
Carmelites, Western Canada as they gathered on
October 4 and 5, 2013. Approximately fifty ocds
members together with a few family and friends
participated.
Click here for more
A Memorable day with 600 Senior citizens Miraroad: Senior Citizen's Day was celebrated in the
Community Hall at St. Joseph Church, Mira Road on
Sunday Oct. 13th. The program began with the
Eucharistic Celebration. Rev. Fr. Ivan D'souza
celebrated the solemn mass at 9.30am. Fr. Dominic
Vas preached an inspiring homily. Soon after the
mass a renowned Speaker Mr. Goshal gave a talk on
Health Tips. It was really an enriching and
meaningful insight to the Senior Citizens. The
cultural program began with a prayer song. Later SCC
members entertained the crowd with dance and songs.
Senior citizens also shook their hips to peppy filmy
numbers. This was followed by spot prizes conducted
by the SCC animators.
Click here for more
World mental health day 10th October 2013, Thursday. Carmel Jyothi public
charitable trust and the taluk advocates association
Hadagali conducted world mental health day. The
whole program was conducted in the campus of Carmel
Seva Sadan. Mr. C.K.M. Basavalinga Swamy, president
of the lawyers association Hadagali, was the
president. Mr. Jagdish G. Bisirotti , Public
Prosecutor of Hadagali taluk, Mr. A.B. Vijay Kumar,
Thasildar of Hadagali taluk, Fr. Rajesh D’Souza,
director of Carmel Jyothi public charitable trust,
Sr. Ida, ASMI and Sr. Dr. Shilba ASMI were the guest
of honor.
Click here for more
Ayuda Pooje 13th October 2013, Sunday, Huvina Hadagali, Carmel
Jyothi Public Charitable Trust conducted Ayuda Pooje.
On the occasion of Ayuda Pooje all the vehicles of
Carmel motor driving school. Carmel Seva Sadan,
Carmel Jyothi Public Charitable Trust and Mount
Carmel school were blessed. At the same time the
computer systems, tailoring machines, impliments of
Carmel automobile training centre and the impliments
of Carmel welding training centre were blessed.
Click here for more
Child labor work shop 30th September 2013, Monday, Carmel Jyothi Public
Charitable Trust conducted one day work shop on the
child labor to the Anganavadi workers. Mr. Vijay
Kumar, Thasildar of Huvina Hadagali taluk was the
president of the program. Mr. Mohanesh, officer of
child labor project Bellary district was the chief
guest. Mr. Eshwaraiah, field officer of child labor
project Bellary district, Fr. Rajesh D’Souza,
director of Carmel Jyothi child labor school and Mr.
Ravi Kumar, labor inspector, Hadagali were the guest
of honor. Around 30 anganavadi workers participated
in the work shop.
Click here for more
GATHERING FOR VOLUNTEER AT ST. THOMAS MORE
PARISH, CALGARY - CANADA St.
Thomas More parish is one of the mega parishes in
the diocese of Calgary, Alberta, Canada whose
pastoral care is taken by the Carmelites. The parish
has a great number of volunteers helping the parish
in different ministries. As usual every year the
parish office hosts a dinner to appreciate these
parishioners who render their voluntary service.
This year the appreciation dinner was held on 11th
of October 2013 in the church hall and around 225
volunteers attended the function.
Click here for more
Annual Feast of Guardian Angels’ Church –
Vancouver Guardian Angels Church feast was celebrated on 5th
October after 4 pm mass. The celebration was held in
the Millennium Hall of the parish. Fr. Rudolf V.
D'Souza felicitated all the volunteers and
benefactors of the Church with a flower bouquet
each. A sumptuous dinner was served and Fr. Boniface
D'Souza graced the meal with a spontaneous prayer.
That was 64th Birthday of the Church. We thank the
parishioners for making this occasion memorable.
Click here for more
Ryshivana
Institute of Indian Christian Spirituality
Inauguration and Blessing of the Retreat Block and
the New Chapel An additional Block of the Retreat Centre and a new
chapel was inaugurated and blessed at Ryshivana,
Institute of Indian Christian Spirituality and
centre for Inner Silence and Contemplative Prayer on
3rd October 2013 at 5-30 pm. Rev. Fr. Dr. Archibald
Gonsalves, the Provincial of the Discalced Province
of Karnataka-Goa Province inaugurated the additional
block and Rt. Rev. Dr. Aloysius Paul D’Souza, Bishop
of Mangalore Blessed the New Chapel and presided
over the Eucharistic Celebrations.
Click here for more
Feast of Little Flower and the 80th Birth Day
Celebration of Fr. Paul at Pushpashrama The feast of our patroness, St. Therese of the Child
Jesus (Little Flower) and the 80th birthday of Rev.
Fr. Paul D’ Souza was celebrated on the 1st of
October, 2013 at Pushpashrama College of Philosophy,
Mysore. The Holy Eucharist was presided over by Rev.
Fr. Leslie Moras, Principal of St. Philomena’s
Degree and PG College, Mysore. He in his homily
highlighted the desire of little Therese to follow
Jesus in her life. Her sincere desire and love for
Jesus made her a powerful instrument in God’s
vineyard.
Click here for more
SEMINAR ON THE BOOK OF FOUNDATION – MYSORE
CARMELITE FAMILY A
Seminar on the Book of Her Foundations was held on
the 22nd of September 2013 for the Carmelite Family
Mysore in Flos Carmeli Convent, Hale Kesare. Fr.
Wilfred Rodrigues was the resource person for the
whole day except for a little intervention by
another scholar Fr. Jeevan Tauro. As many as 80 to
85 members of various Carmelite congregations
participated and profited a lot from it. They were
divided into 8 equal groups for discussion on the
chapters they were allotted by the resource person
covering the whole book, which was later reported.
Click here for more
VESTITION OF TWO NOVICES AT SAN JOSE - CALIFORNIA
PROVINCE September 7, 2013 was a great day for the Canadian
Carmelites as two of the candidates to our region
entered the novitiate after their successful
Postulancy experience for 6 months. Bro. Josef
Giroux and Fr. Alfredo Pereira along with three
member of California province officially began their
novitiate with a solemn ceremony of vistition. Rev.
Fr. Mathew with a homily invited the members to pray
for them. Rev. Fr. Archibald R. Gonsalves received
the two members of our Province into Novitiate.
Click here for more
MONTI FEST IN VIENNA The Mangalorian Community in Vienna celebrated the
Nativity of Mother Mary (Monti Fest) on the 14th of
September. The festivity commenced at 4.30 p.m. with
the solemn Eucharistic celebration presided over by
Fr. Rathan Nicholas Almeida, OCD. In his homily, he
reminded the faithful that we all have to contribute
generously, try and reform our families so that they
reflect and demonstrate qualities, seen in the Holy
Family of Nazareth. The role of a mother in the
family was highlighted and certain awareness was
created as regards respect towards her.
Click here for more
This website was launched in 2006 during the silver
jubilee celebrations of the Karnataka-Goa Province of
the Discalced Carmelite Order.
The ancient Carmelites founded in the thirteenth century
were reformed in the sixteenth by two great doctors of
the church, Saints Teresa and John of the Cross. These
spiritual geniuses, while re-enforcing the contemplative
dimension of the Carmelites, inserted a decidedly
apostolic thrust into their spirituality, with special
emphasis on the missions.
During the seventeenth century, we find Carmelite
missionaries in several pockets along the west coast of
the Indian sub-continent : Surat, Diu, Goa, Verapoly. In
the eighteenth, Carmelites were appointed vicars
apostolic of "the Great Mogul" and Verapoly. They are
invited to attend to the pastoral needs of the Catholics
in Mumbai. In the nineteenth century, the sees of
Mangalore and Quilon were entrusted to the sons of St.
Teresa.
Finally, in the twentieth century, the Discalced
Carmelites opened their doors to Indian natives, who
would henceforth draw more freely from the rich
spiritual treasures of Sts. Teresa, John of the Cross,
and other Carmelite interreters of the Good News of
Jesus.
As Indian vocations multiplied, more and more
foundations were made, and grouped into "provinces".
Today among more than thirty provinces world-wide, there
are five Indian provinces . One of these is the
Karnataka-Goa province.
The aim of this web-site is, primarily to acquaint
readers with Carmelite history and tradition; to share
the spiritual insights of the great Carmelite saints and
also give glimpses of the life within the province to
all our associates. Articles of topical interest have
also been included.
“In
the Liturgical Year A in the Catholic Church’s
lectionary of Scripture readings for Mass, the
Gospel passage almost every Sunday is taken from St.
Matthew. In the New Testament we meet St. Matthew
only indirectly through the Gospel that bears his
name. Matthew’s Gospel is one of the longest books
in the New Testament and has exercised great
influence in Christian life over the centuries. It
has even been called the most important book ever
written. Fr. Rudolf has already published Homilies
for Cycle B and C and now with this publication the
Cycle becomes complete. Though there are a number of
books published to assist Catholic Preachers, the
compendium of Fr. Rudolf is one of its kind, a
treasure to be stored in the book shelf of every
preacher.”: Rev. Dr. Archibald Gonsalves, OCD,
President: IPCI; Provincial: Karnataka Goa Province.
Historically CRI was the initiative of Pope Pius XII
who called a Congress of Religious in Rome in 1950
and recommended setting of National Conferences of
Religious. The first meeting of Indian Religious was
at Delhi in 1962. In 1963 the Holy See formally
erected CRI by approving its Statutes. The Golden
Jubilee Celebration of this event was solemnized
from 7-9 November 2013 in Guwahati, aptly dubbed as
the Gateway to the Northeast. The event was attended
by nearly 500 Major Superiors, besides, several
other delegates and religious from around India.
The Karnataka-Goa Province has another Priest! The
place was Our Lady of Hope, Chinchinim, Salcette-Goa.
The day was 11th October, 2013, and the person at
the centre of it all was Deacon Mark Peter Furtado.
He had landed in Goa a couple of months ago, after
completing his theological studies in Teresianum,
Rome.
Most Rev. Filipe Neri Ferrão, the
Archbishop-Patriarch of Goa and Daman conferred the
Sacrament of Holy Orders during the Eucharisitic
celebration concelebrated by around 80 Priests in a
Church packed to capacity.
The maiden attempt to bring together our seminarians
from different stages of formation was a land mark
in the history of the Karnataka-Goa Province. The
planning had begun in February 2013 with a little
seed sown by the Provincial. The Formators along
with the Provincial Councillor in-charge of
formation, formed a core-committee pooling in their
ideas and resources. By August 2013, the four groups
(Mt. Carmel, Avila, Duruelo and Lisieux,) were
formed by diving all the formees from each stage of
formation (EXCLUDING THE NOVICES).
It was the First Friday and First Saturday of the
month and a perfect weekend to hold the OCDS
Spiritual Renewal Conference and the Ceremonies of
the Lower Mainland OCDS Communities which was held
at St. Edmund’s Parish, North Vancouver, B.C.
Indeed, great blessings and graces poured down from
heaven on members of the Secular Order of Discalced
Carmelites, Western Canada as they gathered on
October 4 and 5, 2013. Approximately fifty ocds
members together with a few family and friends
participated.
Miraroad: Senior Citizen's Day was celebrated in the
Community Hall at St. Joseph Church, Mira Road on
Sunday Oct. 13th. The program began with the
Eucharistic Celebration. Rev. Fr. Ivan D'souza
celebrated the solemn mass at 9.30am. Fr. Dominic
Vas preached an inspiring homily. Soon after the
mass a renowned Speaker Mr. Goshal gave a talk on
Health Tips. It was really an enriching and
meaningful insight to the Senior Citizens. The
cultural program began with a prayer song. Later SCC
members entertained the crowd with dance and songs.
Senior citizens also shook their hips to peppy filmy
numbers. This was followed by spot prizes conducted
by the SCC animators.
10th October 2013, Thursday. Carmel Jyothi public
charitable trust and the taluk advocates association
Hadagali conducted world mental health day. The
whole program was conducted in the campus of Carmel
Seva Sadan. Mr. C.K.M. Basavalinga Swamy, president
of the lawyers association Hadagali, was the
president. Mr. Jagdish G. Bisirotti , Public
Prosecutor of Hadagali taluk, Mr. A.B. Vijay Kumar,
Thasildar of Hadagali taluk, Fr. Rajesh D’Souza,
director of Carmel Jyothi public charitable trust,
Sr. Ida, ASMI and Sr. Dr. Shilba ASMI were the guest
of honor.
13th October 2013, Sunday, Huvina Hadagali, Carmel
Jyothi Public Charitable Trust conducted Ayuda Pooje.
On the occasion of Ayuda Pooje all the vehicles of
Carmel motor driving school. Carmel Seva Sadan,
Carmel Jyothi Public Charitable Trust and Mount
Carmel school were blessed. At the same time the
computer systems, tailoring machines, impliments of
Carmel automobile training centre and the impliments
of Carmel welding training centre were blessed.
30th September 2013, Monday, Carmel Jyothi Public
Charitable Trust conducted one day work shop on the
child labor to the Anganavadi workers. Mr. Vijay
Kumar, Thasildar of Huvina Hadagali taluk was the
president of the program. Mr. Mohanesh, officer of
child labor project Bellary district was the chief
guest. Mr. Eshwaraiah, field officer of child labor
project Bellary district, Fr. Rajesh D’Souza,
director of Carmel Jyothi child labor school and Mr.
Ravi Kumar, labor inspector, Hadagali were the guest
of honor. Around 30 anganavadi workers participated
in the work shop.
St.
Thomas More parish is one of the mega parishes in
the diocese of Calgary, Alberta, Canada whose
pastoral care is taken by the Carmelites. The parish
has a great number of volunteers helping the parish
in different ministries. As usual every year the
parish office hosts a dinner to appreciate these
parishioners who render their voluntary service.
This year the appreciation dinner was held on 11th
of October 2013 in the church hall and around 225
volunteers attended the function.
Guardian Angels Church feast was celebrated on 5th
October after 4 pm mass. The celebration was held in
the Millennium Hall of the parish. Fr. Rudolf V.
D'Souza felicitated all the volunteers and
benefactors of the Church with a flower bouquet
each. A sumptuous dinner was served and Fr. Boniface
D'Souza graced the meal with a spontaneous prayer.
That was 64th Birthday of the Church. We thank the
parishioners for making this occasion memorable.
An additional Block of the Retreat Centre and a new
chapel was inaugurated and blessed at Ryshivana,
Institute of Indian Christian Spirituality and
centre for Inner Silence and Contemplative Prayer on
3rd October 2013 at 5-30 pm. Rev. Fr. Dr. Archibald
Gonsalves, the Provincial of the Discalced Province
of Karnataka-Goa Province inaugurated the additional
block and Rt. Rev. Dr. Aloysius Paul D’Souza, Bishop
of Mangalore Blessed the New Chapel and presided
over the Eucharistic Celebrations.
The feast of our patroness, St. Therese of the Child
Jesus (Little Flower) and the 80th birthday of Rev.
Fr. Paul D’ Souza was celebrated on the 1st of
October, 2013 at Pushpashrama College of Philosophy,
Mysore. The Holy Eucharist was presided over by Rev.
Fr. Leslie Moras, Principal of St. Philomena’s
Degree and PG College, Mysore. He in his homily
highlighted the desire of little Therese to follow
Jesus in her life. Her sincere desire and love for
Jesus made her a powerful instrument in God’s
vineyard.
A
Seminar on the Book of Her Foundations was held on
the 22nd of September 2013 for the Carmelite Family
Mysore in Flos Carmeli Convent, Hale Kesare. Fr.
Wilfred Rodrigues was the resource person for the
whole day except for a little intervention by
another scholar Fr. Jeevan Tauro. As many as 80 to
85 members of various Carmelite congregations
participated and profited a lot from it. They were
divided into 8 equal groups for discussion on the
chapters they were allotted by the resource person
covering the whole book, which was later reported.
September 7, 2013 was a great day for the Canadian
Carmelites as two of the candidates to our region
entered the novitiate after their successful
Postulancy experience for 6 months. Bro. Josef
Giroux and Fr. Alfredo Pereira along with three
member of California province officially began their
novitiate with a solemn ceremony of vistition. Rev.
Fr. Mathew with a homily invited the members to pray
for them. Rev. Fr. Archibald R. Gonsalves received
the two members of our Province into Novitiate.
The Mangalorian Community in Vienna celebrated the
Nativity of Mother Mary (Monti Fest) on the 14th of
September. The festivity commenced at 4.30 p.m. with
the solemn Eucharistic celebration presided over by
Fr. Rathan Nicholas Almeida, OCD. In his homily, he
reminded the faithful that we all have to contribute
generously, try and reform our families so that they
reflect and demonstrate qualities, seen in the Holy
Family of Nazareth. The role of a mother in the
family was highlighted and certain awareness was
created as regards respect towards her.
Finally, in the twentieth century, the Discalced
Carmelites opened their doors to Indian natives, who
would henceforth draw more freely from the rich
spiritual treasures of Sts. Teresa, John of the Cross,
and other Carmelite interreters of the Good News of
Jesus.
