The great Easter feast of last Sunday began the Church’s fifty-day celebration of the Resurrection which concludes with the feast of Pentecost in six weeks.

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Fr Anthony Scerri has published his reminiscences of his long and varied life as a Carmelite.

St Titus, a Dutch Carmelite priest, was noted for his resistance to the Nazis, for which he was arrested and transported to Dachau concentration camp, where he died in 1942. He was canonised in 2022. Fr Fernando Millán Romeral, O.Carm. (an expert on Brandsma, based in Madrid), delivered the lecture at Trinity College, Dublin.

Some years ago, I visited the Pro Hart Gallery in Broken Hill. Tucked up in the upper reaches of the gallery, was a painting quite different to the others.

Fr Albino Dos Santos graduated with a Masters degree in Theological Studies and Br Anacleto Guterres Da Costa with a Bachelors degree in Theology on 24 March at St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne.

The Carmelites in Timor have elected Fr Roque Soares Da Cruz and Br Carlito Da Silva as members of the new Timor-Leste Council.

You can download and save the scripture texts, reflections and prayers for Lectio Divina for each day of this month. Lectio Divina is a traditional way of praying the Scriptures. Visit our Lectio Divina page for more information about how to pray using Lectio Divina. Join our Lectio Online group. We meet every Friday at 10am (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) [You are welcome to join from other time zones, eg. Perth/Singapore/Philippines: 7am; Timor-Leste/Tokyo: 8am; New Zealand: 12pm; Los Angeles: Thursday 4pm; New York/Toronto: Thursday 7pm] to prayerfully reflect on the Gospel of the coming Sunday.

According to the latest issue of America, a monthly magazine published by the American Jesuits, Pope Francis has expressed “full support” for naming St Titus Brandsma “a patron of journalists.”

This Sunday’s Gospel of the Transfiguration completes the ‘little parable’ formed by the Gospels of the first two Sundays of Lent.

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Fr Carlito Da Costa Araújo (Provincial Delegate for Timor-Leste) attended the Asian Continental Assembly on Synodality in Bangkok from 22-27 February, representing the religious in Timor-Leste.