In a world that moves quickly and grows noisier each day, there is a small monastery along Gilmore Avenue that has spent the last 99 years doing something radically different: praying in silence for the world.
The Order of Carmelites in the Philippines recently opened an exhibit in honor of its titular patron, Dutch Carmelite martyr Titus Brandsma, who will be canonized by Pope Francis in Rome on May 15.
A delegation of Order of Carmelites priests from the Philippines on May 11 left for Rome to attend the canonization of Dutch Carmelite martyr, Titus Brandsma, scheduled on May 15 at the Vatican.
