A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke 14:25 – 33 Great crowds accompanied Jesus on his way and he turned and spoke to them. ‘If any man comes to me without hating his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes, and his own life too,...
https://www.thecarmelitecentremelbourne.org/wp-content/uploads/28-Aug-25-Meditation-AUDIO.mp3 Meditation for Thursday 28th August 2025 Meditation begins with sitting, that’s pretty obvious although I have heard about traditions where people stand. But for the vast...
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke 14:1, 7 – 14 On a sabbath day Jesus had gone for a meal to the house of one of the leading Pharisees; and they watched him closely. He then told the guests a parable, because he had noticed how they picked the...
https://www.thecarmelitecentremelbourne.org/wp-content/uploads/21-Aug-25-Meditation-AUDIO.mp3 Meditation for Thursday 21st August 2025 Celebrated spiritual author, psychologist and priest Henri Nouwen wrote extensively about living in the present moment. One of his...
What can the Carmelite Order contribute, from its heritage and according to its charism, to Pope Francis’s call for an “integral ecology”? In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis defined an integral ecology as including more than just environmental elements, such as the land and...
