How Green is Carmel?

In the April-June, 2007 issue of CITOC (the Central Information Carmelite newsletter) there are a series of articles about global warming and the need for the world populace to reduce, reuse and recycle to reclaim our world.

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Saint Rafael’s Plants a GardenBy: Reverend Gregory Houck, O.Carm.

The neighborhood around Saint Raphael’s in south central Los Angeles is a neighborhood in flux—with new construction, new groups (mostly immigrant) moving in, and lots of renovations. The parish reflects all this with its new buildings, new groups registering, and lots of renovations.

The Voice of the Voiceless
By: Luis Jesus Paz Acosta

Joining a religious order has many facets. It starts with a call within your heart, and begins in reality when you take that first step to answer the invitation. Before becoming a novice in profession with your new brothers, there is a period of time when the candidate lives within the community and begins to understand the call of his future as a Carmelite.

Father Jeff’s Journey to God
By: Lauren Fitzpatrick

Jeff Smialek has tended to sailors returning to port, injured troops recovering from foreign wars and ordinary high school students. He has run up to docking ships with invitations to pray, soothed young combat veterans through their pain and quietly served as a tangible example of Catholicism to teenagers asking a slew of “eternal questions.”

Five Profess Vows
By: Reverend Gregory Houck, O.Carm.

On Monday morning, June 11th, the Very Reverend Michael Kissane, O.Carm., Prior Provincial of the Saint Elias Province, reminded the five novices planning to make their first profession of vows...

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The Potter Priest
By: Dora Walters

When the Reverend Leo McCarthy of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Osprey, Floriday, isn’t busy talking to parishioners or taking care of administrative matters, you will find him in his “other place.”

Mount Carmel H.S. Grad Becomes Priest
By: Sal Lema

Memorial Day weekends in Illinois are not always bright and sunny, and this year was no different. Even though it rained on Saturday, May 26, it was as though God was pouring down his blessing on Father Jeffery Robert Smialek, O.Carm., welcoming him to His table as a newly ordained priest.

Crespi High School Adds Fine Arts/Media Center
By: Sal Lema

The silver shovels were digging deep on June 1, 2007, signaling the official ground-breaking ceremony for the new Fine Arts and Media Center for Crespi Carmelite High School in Encino, California—the firstsuch addition since the late 1960s.

Cancer Survivor Cooks Up Hope for Sufferers

Jill Schultz knows her gumbo. The Louisiana native, housekeeper and cook at Saint Bernadette Catholic Church in Clear Lake (Houston) has been feeding the parish for more than 17 years. And as a CanCare volunteer, she knows first-hand the importance of feeding the soul, too.

On Communion
By: Fr. Bob Colaresi, 0. Carm.

St. Therese of Lisieux, one of our shining stars, learned through an intense search of many dreams and listening deeply to God that her "vocation is love, in the heart of the Church."

They Call Me Carmelite
By: Renato Cisneros, Alumnus

In the history of the Carmelites in Peru, he has the place of legend, and even more he is the only one left of the three fathers who came in 1949, and founded the first parish of the Carmelite Order in Peru. We believe that his memory is a kind of black box which holds the collected memories of long ago.

Old Faithful Set to Retire
By: Reverend Gregory Houck, O.Carm.

If an automobile could take Vows, then the Toyota Rav4, one of the house cars at the pre-novitiate house in Houston, Texas, should be given perpetual vows. This car has attended almost every Carmelite event for the past ten years.