On February 24, 2025, during the audience granted to H.E. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State, and H.E. Msgr. Edgar Peña Parra, Substitute for General Affairs, the Holy Father Francis authorized the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to promulgate a number of Decrees, including the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Cunegonda Siwiec, a faithful laywoman, member of the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites (OCDS), born May 28, 1876 in Stryszawa - Siwcówka (Poland) and died there on June 27, 1955.

On Sunday, 23 February, at the Discalced Carmelite nuns' monastery in Santa Fe (Argentina), the opening session of the diocesan inquest on the “life, virtues, fame of holiness and signs” of the Servant of God Cecilia Maria of the Holy Face (born Cecilia María Sánchez Sorondo), a professed nun of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, will be held.

Today, during the Audience granted to His Most Reverend Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, the Supreme Pontiff decided to extend the cult of Blessed Teresa of Saint Augustine (born: Mary Magdalene Claudia Lidoine) and 15 companions of the Order of the Discalced Carmelites of Compiègne, martyrs, killed in odium Fidei on 17 July 1794, in Paris (France), registering them in the catalog of Saints (Canonization Equipollent).

«I pastori che vegliavano nei campi
ricevettero una luminosa visione
che li lasciò sbigottiti:
la gloria di Dio rifulse intorno a loro,
e un angelo gridava:
“Inneggiate, perché il Cristo è nato.
O Dio dei padri, tu sei benedetto”.

“Che discorso è questo?”,
si dissero i pastori;
“Andiamo a vedere l’evento,
il Cristo divino”.
Raggiunta Betlemme,
insieme alla Madre adoravano cantando:
“O Dio dei padri, tu sei benedetto.” ».

[Tropario bizantino]

Tanti auguri di buon Natale e buon principio d’anno a tutti dalla Postulazione generale dei Carmelitani Scalzi!

On Tuesday, 10 December, at the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, the diocesan inquest on the ‘life, virtues, reputation for holiness and signs’ of the Servant of God Adeodatus of St. Peter, professed priest of the Order of the Discalced Friars of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel will be opened.

Tomorrow, Tuesday 19 November, the diocesan enquiry on the "life, virtues, reputation for holiness and signs" of the Servant of God Adeodatus of St Peter, professed priest of the Order of the Discalced Friars of Mount Carmel, will be presented to the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.

Tomorrow, Tuesday 19 November, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints will open the diocesan enquiry into the "life, virtues, reputation for holiness and signs" of the Servant of God Pura Rosa del Carmen (née Secundina Guadalupe Olmos, 1896-1965), a professed religious of the Congregation of the Carmelite Sisters of Saint Teresa of Jesus (Argentina).

Antonino Cottone, a reliquary by profession, participated in the ‘Di Buon Mattino’ programme, making relics of the Order.

These liturgical texts and the possibility of celebrating Blessed Anne of Jesus are reserved exclusively for the houses of the Order of Discalced Carmelites and the Diocese of Malines-Brussels (Belgium), because the cult of the Blessed is geographically limited.

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Liturgical texts