2024 Congress Schedule

Please note that itinerary time frames are subject to change prior to the Congress.
The website is updated frequently and contains the most updated Schedule. Check back often.

Thursday, August 22: Queenship of Mary

AFTERNOON

  • Hotel Check-in: 3:00 PM

  • Registration for Congress (3-5:30 PM) - LOBBY

  • Vendors’ Room open (3-4:15 PM) - WAKEFIELD ROOM

  • EARLY DINNER ON YOUR OWN (4:30-6:30 PM)

    • Optional: $25 early buffet dinner served 4:30 -6:30 PM in the FRANKLIN FOYER

      • Advance ticket purchase required for the buffet.

      • Buffet Tickets available at hotel Front Desk Thursday: 2-5 PM. ($25 Cash or Credit)

      • BUFFET MENU

    • Dine (on your own) at MarketStreet Lynnfield (Reservations highly recommended)

    • EVENING

  • Welcome/Opening of Congress (6:45 PM) - BALLROOM

  • Presentation: Fr. Ramiro Casale, OCD (OCDS General Delegate)
    “The OCDS in the World” (7:00-8:00 PM)

  • Evening Prayer (8:00 PM) / Office Leader: Br. Isaiah, OCD

  • Vendors’ Room open (8:30-9:30 PM) - WAKEFIELD ROOM

  • Concierge Desk Open for Late Registrants (8:30-9:30 PM)

    • Concierge Desk located opposite the Ballroom

Meals listed below (all dining located in the hotel) are included in your Congress Registration fee unless otherwise indicated.

Friday, August 23: St. Rose of Lima

MORNING

  • Concierge Desk Open for late registrants (7:00-7:30AM)

    • Concierge Desk located Opposite the Ballroom

  • BREAKFAST (7:00-8:15 AM) FRANKLIN FOYER

    MORNING/EVENING PRAYER, PRESENTATIONS & MASS: BALLROOM

  • Morning Prayer (8:30 AM) / Office Leader: Br. Joseph Teresa, OCD

  • Presentation: Sr. Jeanne Marie Graham, OCD (9:00-10:00 AM)
    “The Contemplative Stance: A Carmelite Perspective”

  • Presentation: Fr. Alex Ezechukwu, OCD (10:00-10:20 AM)
    ”Carmelite Spiritual Direction Degree Program”

  • MASS: Votive Mass of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (10:45 AM)

    Celebrant: Fr. Daniel Chowning, Provincial / Reposition of Blessed Sacrament in Chapel immediately following Mass

  • LUNCH (Noon-1:15 PM) FRANKLIN FOYER

    AFTERNOON

  • Optional excursion to Newburyport

    • Bus departs outside hotel lobby at 1:15 PM (Pre-Paid Tickets Required)

    • Bus returns to hotel from Newburyport at 5PM

    • Round Trip Bus tickets are $35 (includes gratuity).

    • JOIN BUS TRIP WAITLIST

  • Adoration Chapel open (1:30-5:00 PM) - PEABODY ROOM

  • Vendors’ Room open (2-5:00 PM) - WAKEFIELD ROOM

  • Concierge Desk Open (2-2:30 PM) / Opposite Ballroom

    EVENING

  • DINNER (5:30-6:45 PM)

  • Presentation: Fr. Steven Payne, OCD (7:00-8:00 PM)
    ”Joy in the Life of St. Teresa of the Andes”

  • Evening Prayer (8:00 PM) / Office Leader: Br. Jonathan Maria, OCD

  • Adoration Chapel open (8:30-10:30 PM) - PEABODY ROOM

  • Vendors’ Room open (8:30-9:30 PM) - WAKEFIELD ROOM

Saturday, August 24: St. Bartholomew

MORNING

  • Adoration Chapel open (6:00-7:00 AM) - PEABODY ROOM

  • BREAKFAST (7:00-8:15 AM) FRANKLIN FOYER

  • Morning Prayer (8:30 AM) / Office Leader: Br. Vladimir, OCD

  • Presentation: Fr. Daniel Chowning OCD (9:00-10:00 AM)
    ”The Secret of Joy According to St. John of the Cross”

  • Presentation: Fr. Thomas Otanga, OCD (10:00 - 10:20 AM)
    ”Update on our Kenya Mission”

  • Presentation: Fr. Steven Payne, OCD (10:20 - 10:40 AM)
    ”CINA & Carmelite Studies Presentation”

  • MASS - Celebrant: Cardinal Seán O’Malley OFM Cap., Archbishop of Boston (11:00 AM)

  • GROUP PHOTO: (Noon) with Cardinal Seán: Friars/Nuns/Congress Committee only

  • LUNCH (Noon - 1:15 PM) FRANKLIN FOYER

    AFTERNOON

  • Presentation: Fr. Pier Giorgio Pacelli OCD (1:30-2:30 PM)
    ”The Confident Joy of Sts. Thérèse and Elizabeth amid Chaos and Suffering”

  • Presentation: Fr. Thomas Otanga, OCD (2:30-3:00 PM)
    ”Update on our Kenya Mission”

  • Vendors’ Room open (3:15-5:00 PM) - WAKEFIELD ROOM

    • FINAL OPPORTUNITY: to make purchases and buy raffle tickets!

  • “Soul Stirrings” book signing with author Sr. Jeanne Marie Graham OCD, Boston Carmel (3:30-4:30 PM)

  • Adoration Chapel open (3:15-5:00 PM) - PEABODY ROOM

  • Vigil Mass at 5:00 PM - FRANKLIN ROOM

    • Strictly reserved only for those who have to leave the Congress before the Sunday Mass (Scheduled for 10:30 AM) because of early flights. Please do not attend the Vigil Mass if you are at all able to attend Mass on Sunday since space is limited. (Ballroom unavailable for Vigil Mass due to set up for Saturday evening banquet)

      • Fr. Fred Alexander, OCD, Celebrant

      • Vigil Mass Location: FRANKLIN ROOM

        EVENING

  • INVOCATION / BANQUET - BALLROOM

    • Cash Bar (6:15 PM) - Outside Ballroom

    • Banquet (Doors open at 6:30 PM). No early admittance.

    • Surprise Entertainment (Approximately 7:30 PM)

    • CARMELITE RAFFLE (Immediately following the Entertainment) at about 8:30 PM

  • Adoration Chapel open (9:30-10:30 PM) - PEABODY ROOM

Sunday, August 25

MORNING

  • Adoration Chapel open (6:00-7:00 AM) - PEABODY ROOM

  • BREAKFAST (7:00-8:15 AM) FRANKLIN FOYER

  • Morning Prayer (8:30 AM) / Office Leader: Br. John-Magdalene, OCD

  • Presentation: Br. John-Mary Winter, OCD (9:00-10:00 AM)
    ”Evangelii Gaudium (Joy of the Gospel) from a Carmelite Perspective”

  • MASS (10:30 AM)
    Celebrant: Fr. Ramiro Casale, OCD

  • Closing of Congress (11:30 AM)

  • Hotel Check out: 12:00 PM