The next annual Carmelite Summer Seminar, sponsored by the Center for Spirituality at St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, has been scheduled for June 9-15, 2013 at St. Mary's College.

See details of the most recent seminar, held in June 2012.

Save the dates and look for details in December. 

 Pilgrims reach to touch the reliquary of St. Therese of Lisieux during its second visit to the Philippines in 2008.  Photo  by Japa Gavino, courtesy of the Shrine of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus in Pasay City.

 The Shrine at Lisieux has announced that the Centenary Reliquary of St. Therese (the "Brazilian Reliquary") will make its third visit to the Philippines from December 15, 2012 through April 15, 2013. 

Please enjoy this beautiful short meditation on Blessed Louis and Zelie as parents and saint-makers.  It is by Fr. Jim Kubicki, S.J., one of the most fervent friends of St. Therese and of Blessed Zelie and Louis in the United States. He is the national director of the Apostleship of Prayer, of which St. Therese is co-patron.

On July 29, 2012 the feast of Blessed Louis Martin will be celebrated in Alencon.  The liturgical feast of Blessed Louis and Zelie is on July 12.  The anniversary of his death on July 29 will be celebrated in Alencon with a Mass, Eucharistic adoration, Vespers, and a conference:

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10:30 a.m. - Mass at the Basilica of Notre-Dame; Mgr Habert, bishop of Sees, presides.

2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. - Eucharistic adoration in the chapel of the House of the Martin Family, 50 rue Saint Blaise; exposition of the relics of Blessed Louis and Zelie.

4:30 - Vespers

5:00 p.m. - Conference - "The link between Franciscan spirituality and the Martin family," presented by a member of the Franciscan family at the House of the Martin Family on rue Saint-Blaise.