OCD Confraternity of the Brown Scapular - National Office

08/09/2026

Message of Condolence from our Provincial Superior to His Eminence Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Pro-Prefect for the Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches

07/09/2026

Happy Birthday, dearest Mama Mary!

Today, the Discalced Carmelite Family rejoices with gratitude as we honor you, our Mother and Queen, Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

You are the Mother who gathers us beneath your mantle, the model of prayer and contemplation, and the faithful woman who teaches us to keep all things in our hearts and remain attentive to the voice of God.

On your birthday, we ask you to continue forming us in the spirit of Carmel: to seek the face of God in silence, to remain faithful in prayer, to live in loving union with Jesus, and to offer our lives for the Church and for the salvation of souls.

Mother and Beauty of Carmel, protect our friars, nuns, secular Carmelites, confraternities, priests, families, and all those who wear your Holy Scapular with faith and devotion. Lead us ever more deeply into friendship with your Son.

Our birthday gift to you is our renewed desire to know you more, love you more, imitate your virtues, and serve Jesus with a generous and undivided heart.

Happy Birthday, Mama Mary!

Flos Carmeli, ora pro nobis.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mother and Queen of Carmel, pray for us. 🤎🙏

02/09/2026

25/08/2026

25/08/2026

𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐭 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 | 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟐𝟔

“𝑂 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑, 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙! 𝑂
𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑; 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒
𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙!”
— 𝑆𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝐽𝑜ℎ𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠

On this day Discalced Carmelites celebrate the feast of the Transverberation (or Transpierecing of the Heart) of St. Teresa of Avila, Virgin, and Reformer of the Carmelite Order. The transverberation is a mystical grace wherein the Saint’s heart was pierced with a “dart of love” by an angel.

St. John of the Cross writes that “It will happen that while the soul is inflamed with the Love of God, it will feel that a seraph is assailing it by means of an arrow or dart which is all afire with love. And the seraph pierces and in an instant cauterizes this soul, which, like a red-hot coal, or better a flame, is already enkindled. The soul is converted into an immense fire of Love. Few persons have reached these heights.”

St Teresa describes the experience in the Book of her Life “I saw an angel beside me toward the left side, in bodily form. He was not very large, but small, very beautiful, his face so blazing with light that he seemed to be one of the very highest angels, who appear all on fire. They must be those they call Cherubim…I saw in his hands a long dart of gold, and at the end of the iron there seemed to me to be a little fire. This I thought he thrust through my heart several times, and that it reached my very entrails. As he withdrew it, I thought it brought them with it, and left me all burning with a great love of God. So great was the pain, that it made me give those moans; and so utter the sweetness that this sharpest of pains gave me, that there was no wanting it to stop, nor is there any contenting of the soul with less than God”.

[Caption from Carmel of the Immaculate Heart of Mary - Launceston, Tasmania]

25/08/2026

As we celebrate today the Centenary of Saint John of the Cross, his Jubilee Pilgrim Relic comes home to a place deeply connected with the missionary history of the Discalced Carmelites in the Philippines: the Prelature of Infanta!

We joyfully welcome Saint John of the Cross back to Infanta, where the Discalced Carmelite Friars once carried out their missionary apostolate with great dedication.

Our heartfelt gratitude to Bishop Dave Capucao, TOCarm., for warmly welcoming Saint John of the Cross to the Prelature of Infanta.

May this historic homecoming inspire us to rediscover the wisdom, prayer, and burning love for God taught by the Mystical Doctor of the Church.

Welcome home, Saint John of the Cross! Pray for us!

25/08/2026

✨ 100th Anniversary of Saint John of the Cross as Doctor of the Church ✨

Today, we joyfully commemorate the centenary of the proclamation of Saint John of the Cross as a Doctor of the Church.

A great teacher of prayer, holiness, and the spiritual life, Saint John of the Cross continues to guide us along the path of deeper union with God through faith, purification, and love.

May his life and teachings inspire us to seek Christ above all things and to persevere faithfully even through the “dark nights” of life.

Saint John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church, pray for us! 🙏