Traduzione integrale da latino di Edmundo Coccia
Libreria Editrice Vaticana
Roma 2002

The new editor of the Institutum Carmelitanum’s scientific journal Carmelus, Edmund Coccia, translated this important foundational Carmelite work from the Speculum Carmelitarum. The Spaniard, Filippo Ribot, was not interested in creating an historical nor a spiritual formulation as we understand them today. Rather he wanted to give a poetic and mystical projection of the work of the Carmelite Order, where the figures of Elijah and Mary become allegorically represented and united in the events on Mt. Carmel.

Available from Libreria Editrice Vaticana: http://www.libreriaeeditricevaticana.com

Available from: Edizioni Carmelitane: http://carmelites.info/edizioni

This book is an interesting collection of remembrances of Sr. Maria della Trinità who was a novice of Thérése and had an important role to play in the canonization process. Her deposition at the process, until now has been published only in French. While her depositions have not been critically checked and are not considered precise chronologically, they are still of enormous value for their perspective of the saint.

A collection of a series of articles, many no more than two pages in length, this book recreates the life of the mainly Irish Carmelite missionaries in Africa from 1946 to 1966 through their own words. They relate their early people-to-people and people-to-environment experiences in a very frank, refreshing, and often humorous manner.

Available from The Carmelite Province in Ireland:  http://www.carmelites.ie 

Centro Stampa Carmelitano
Rome 2002

An 18 page document addressed to the Carmelite Family on the occasion on the celebration of the papal permission for the prior of the Carmelite house in Florence to aggregate lay people to the Order. It was considered the official recognition of nuns, lay associations, and eventually active sisters as members of the Order. While focusing on the importance to the Carmelite Family of our nuns and lay Carmelites, this document provides a good starting point for all Carmelites to reflect on the different ways of living the fundamental Carmelite values.

Copies available in English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese from Edizioni Carmelitane http://carmelites.info/edizioni

Constant Dölle, O. Carm.
Peeters-Fiery Arrow Series
Leuven 2002

A retelling of Titus Brandsma’s story with particular emphasis on Brandsma’s spirituality by a non specialist on Brandsma and reluctant author. However, Brandsma did play a role throughout the author’s life. This helps Dölle assist the reader in exploring not only Brandsma but also the reader’s own journey.

Joseph M. Malham
Peeters-Firey Arrow Series
Leuven 2002

The chronicles of the lives of Titus Brandsma, O. Carm., Jacques de Jésus, O.C.D., Karl Leisner, and Edith Stein, O.C.D.—a small selection of people, all of whom have in common that they died in the same decade in the same cause—the defense of the Faith. They teach us how to live the Faith and also how to die for the Faith. Rather than a theological reflection or scholarly, professional history, the author manages to enter into the spirit of dedication of their lives in order to breathe life into them for the reader.

Rafael Maria López Melúz, O. Carm.
Madres Carmelitas de la Encarnación - Valencia
Valencia 2002

During the last half millennium, with the exception of a short period when there were civil prohibitions, the Carmelite Monastery in Valencia has been filled with lives dedicated to the service of the Lord and to humanity. After two introductory chapters which help one better understand the lives of the nuns, the history of the monastery itself is explored. Includes a number of pictures.

Available from Edizioni Carmelitane: http://carmelites.info/edizioni

Johannes A. Huls, O. Carm.
Published by Peeters, 2002

A two volume study of the manuscripts of "Seven Ways of Love" attributed to Beatrice of Nazareth. Provides a detailed study of the structure and words chosen by Beatrice. Despite our distance from the 13th century when the text was written, the author contends that this work still has much to say to our time. The work resulted in the author receiving a doctoral degree.

Suore Carmelitane Missionarie di S. Teresa del B. Gesù
2002

Published on the 45th anniversary of the death of M. Mary Crocifissa Curcio, the foundress of the Suore Carmelitane Missionarie di S. Teresa del B. Gesù, this ‘spiritual diary’ is actually two years of spiritual writings. This was published as part of the postulation of her cause for sainthood.

Andrew Jotischky
Oxford University Press, 2002

This book, which is the first full-length study of the Carmelite historical legacy, examines the circumstances under which the traditions were constructed, describes the evolution of the traditions themselves from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, and places them within the wider context of historical writing by religious orders, and attitudes to the past more generally in the later Middle Ages.

Available from Spectrum Publications: spectpub@ozemail.com.au

Lucio Zappatore, O. Carm.

Short video showing scenes from the events in Rome celebrating the 750th Anniversary of the Scapular on September 11-12, 2001. Included is video from the audience with Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square during the regular weekly General Audience.

Available from zaplum@libero.it

HOMEMADE JELLIES, FUDGE, AND BREADS
Carmelite calendars and scapulars are also available

Available from Mt. Carmel Hermitage: www.carmelitehermits.org