The Elective Chapter of the Carmelite Monastery of Camaná, Peru, was held 14 March 2018. The following were elected:

• Prioress:  Sr. : M. Máxima Ranilla Huamaní, O.Carm.
• 1st Councilor:  Sr. M. Eucaristía Solsona Granel, O.Carm.
• 2nd Councilor:  Sr. M. Trinidad Huamani Condo, O.Carm.
• 3rd Councilor:  Sr. M. Hilda Condori Marca, O.Carm.
• 4th Couniclor:  Sr. Gabriela de Jesús Ramos Mamani, O.Carm.
• Director of Novices:  Sr. Gabriela de Jesús Ramos Mamani, O.Carm.
• Treasurer:  Sr. M. Trinidad Huamani Condo, O.Carm.
• Sacristan:  Sr. Carmen Teresa de la Cruz Cruces Montoya, O.Carm.

The Elective Chapter of the Carmelite Monastery of Ostuni, Italy, was held 6-7 March 2018. The following were elected:

• Prioress:  Sr. M. Daniela Denitto, O.Carm.
• 1st Councilor:  Sr. M. Maria Andrisani, O.Carm.
• 2nd Councilor:  Sr. M. Giuseppina Cardone, O.Carm.
• 3rd Councilor:  Sr. M. Agnese Menolascina, O.Carm.
• 4th Couniclor:  Sr. M. Bernardetta Spagnuolo, O.Carm.
• Director of Novices:  Sr. M. Teresa Sisto, O.Carm.
• Treasurer:  Sr. M. Agnese Menolascina, O.Carm.
• Sacristan:  Sr. Anna Visalli, O.Carm.

The Carmelite European Youth Committee (CEYC) met at the Curia Generalizia in Rome from the 2nd to the 4th of March last. They evaluated the work of the committee these past three years and they are now preparing for the next meeting of the “Awakening” project. This will take place at Aylesford, England from the 15th to 18th August, 2019. Details of which will be communicated to the European provinces later this year. This will be the third “Awakening” project for Carmelite youth in Europe, completing the projects that have already taken place at Fatima (Portugal) in 2014 and San Felice (Italy) in 2015. The project followed on from the European youth Pilgrimage of Hope in Rome in 2010 and the World Youth Day meeting in Madrid in 2011. The committee, with John Keating, O.Carm. as chair, are now developing a longer-term project to promote our spirituality among young people. To this end, the committee will meet again next November in Vila-Real, Spain. The members are: Sabrina Rubio Perez, Daniela Pereira, Tommaso Bacci and Carmelites;  Dave Twohig, Luca Sciarelli and João Costa. Collaborating with the committee, at this time, is David Oliver, O.Carm. of the ACV Province.

From the 25th of February to the 1st of March, some seventy Carmelites from the different sectors and groups that make up the Venezuelan Carmel met in the in the Convento San José in Mérida (Venezuela). The theme of the meeting was "La experiencia de Dios en tiempos difíciles... el sufrimiento como fábrica de santidad" (The Experiencie of God in Difficult Times- suffering as a workshop of holiness”, The meeting was directed by Fr. Javier Villegas, O.Carm., of the Titus Brandsma General Delegation in Colombia. In the sessions the participants looked, through Carmelite eyes, at all that is happening at the moment in Venezuela. To get this meeting off the ground took a lot of work and effort as there were many difficulties to be overcome.

The participants included friars from the two missions that exist in Venezuela, from the Bética and the Catalonian provinces; Carmelite sisters from the two congregations that have houses in Venezuela - Carmelite Sisters of Mother Candelaria, (HCMC) and Carmelite Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,(HCSCJ); Carmelite nuns and a broad representation of various groups of lay Carmelites.

At the end, the participants sent a message to the Carmelite Family in which they encourage everyone “to live in allegiance of Jesus Christ in the midst of every difficulty, (...) living out our spirituality authentically in the midst of the people, so in need of prophets of hope.”

The office of CITOC joins in this beautiful challenge, with prayer and fraternal affection.