Take, beloved son this scapular of thy order as a badge of my confraternity and for thee and all Carmelites a special sign of grace;...

After the most blessed servant of God had been anointed king, he was not satisfied with the anxieties of his realm; so, in order...

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in...

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature, which an outside observer notices in the West in our days.  The Western world...

To live without faith, without a heritage to defend, without battling constantly for truth, is not to live but to ‘get along’; we must...

Faith is an act of the intellect, assenting to the divine truth, by command of the will, moved by God, through grace (Saint Thomas...

Laugh and grow strong (Saint Ignatius of Loyola)

Land of our ancestors, Glorious deeds circle your brow, For your arm knows how to wield the sword, Your arm knows how to carry...

The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church - Tertullian (+240 A.D.)

We are celebrating a feast day, consecrated for us by the blood of the apostles. Let us love their faith, their lives, their labours,...