Teresian Carmel
The Teresian Carmel is a reform branch of the Carmelites . This branch of reform arose in 1568 from a renewal movement of the Spanish saints Teresa of Avila (1515–1582) and John of the Cross (1542–1591). They tried to return the Carmel to its sources and to develop it further.
The reform branch is also called Discalced Carmelites (Discalceaten) referred to; In addition to the Discalced Carmelites and the Discalced Carmelites, it includes various congregations of the Third Order , secular institutes and the lay movement of the Scapular Brotherhoods . The order of the Discalced Carmelites is designated with the abbreviation OCD (for Latin Ordo Carmelitarum Discalceatorum ); the older branch of the order, the Carmelites, has the order abbreviation O. Carm. The lay community of the Carmelite family is the Teresian Carmel Community TKG. It is also abbreviated to OCDS (Ordo Carmelitarum Discalceatorum saecularis)
In 2009 Father Saverio Cannistrà was elected as the new Superior General of the Teresian Carmel in Fátima .
history
In accordance with her personal spirituality, Teresa of Ávila began the renewal of the Order with herself in the sixteenth century. She made a vow to always follow the more perfect path and decided to keep the rule as perfectly as possible. A group of sisters gathered in Teresa's cell in September 1560. Inspired by the tradition of the Carmel and the reform of the Discalced by Peter of Alcantara , they proposed the establishment of a monastery , whose rule was hermitic ( meditation , living and working in silence and, if possible, in the solitude of one's own cell ) and communal elements (common hourly prayer and common recreation twice a day) should unite. On August 24, 1562 the convent was built, the monastery of which was dedicated to St. Joseph . In 1568 Teresa of Ávila founded the first convent of the "Discalced Brothers" with St. John of the Cross in Duruelo.
Among the saints and blessed , who emerged from the order of the Discalced Carmelites, belong: the hll. Therese of Lisieux , Elisabeth of the Trinity , Teresa de Los Andes , the Blessed Martyrs of Compiègne and St. Teresia Benedicta vom Kreuz , who was murdered on August 9, 1942 in a gas chamber at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp because of her Jewish descent . She is co-patron of Europe .
In 1990 there were around 3,700 brothers in 60 countries and around 11,400 sisters in around 80 countries who belonged to the Teresian Carmel. The Discalced Carmelites are therefore the largest contemplative women's order.
spirituality
For St. Teresa of Avila were "the primacy of prayer, solitude, silence, poverty, life in a small community and - as an apostolic goal - the intercession for the Church" key points of her reform. The spiritual life as "a path of growing friendship with the Lord" is a hallmark of Carmelite spirituality. Inner prayer and contemplation should be shaped by love as the driving force and lead to alignment with the will of God.
Web links
- Carmelite Order (worldwide)
- Carmelites in Austria
- Carmelnet (English)
- The Teresian Carmel in Germany
- Carmelite monastery in German-speaking Switzerland
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article: Saverio Cannistrà new General of the Teresian Carmel of April 23, 2009 on Order, accessed online on April 23, 2009
- ↑ Gemma Hinricher : Carmel. In: Christian Schütz (Ed.): Practical Lexicon of Spirituality , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1992, ISBN 3-451-22614-6 , Sp. 695 (697)
- ↑ Gemma Hinricher : Carmel. In: Christian Schütz (Ed.): Practical Lexicon of Spirituality Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1992, ISBN 3-451-22614-6 , Sp. 695 (698)