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We invite young women to join us for an Open Week End. Just contact us at 051/421076 and this can be arranged. Bring a friend!.
We are Carmelite Sisters and belong to the same family as St.Teresa, St. John of the Cross, St. Therese. St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein) and Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity and many more! Our Lady of Mt Carmel is our Patroness. The Order was founded on Mt. Carmel in the Holy Land. Devotion to the Mother of God is the inspiration of our lives. As Mary lived in the presence of Jesus and treasured his every word, we too try to live constantly in God's presence and meditate on the Word of God.
Our Day Our day revolves around prayer. An hour of quiet prayer early in the morning and an other in the evening. We come together for the Prayer of the Church (Divine Office). There is time for reading and study.
We meet daily for recreation and of course there is time for work. There is a good blend of time for solitude and time for community. St. Teresa wanted small communities where "all must be friends, all must love one another, all must be cherished and all must help one another."
St. Teresa understood the importance of relationships. She chose to describe prayer also in terms of friendship with Jesus. Her advice is to be alone with Him who we know loves us and to have frequent conversations with Him.
St. John of the Cross sums up our life in one very challenging sentence - "Become like God". He says of our life of union with God "One moment of this pure love is more precious to God and the soul and more beneficial to the Church even though it seems one is doing nothing than all these other works put together."
The Church herself says of our life "Religious completely devoted to contemplation are in a special way an image of Christ praying on the mountain". And "In solitude and silence, by listening to the Word of God, participating in divine worship, personal asceticism, prayer and the communion of fraternal life they direct the whole of their lives and all their activities to the contemplation of God. In this way they offer the ecclesial community a singular testimony of the Church's love for the Lord and they contribute, with hidden apostolic fruitfulness, to the growth of the people of God."
erself says of our life "Religious completely devoted to contemplation are in a special way an image of Christ praying on the mountain". And "In solitude and silence, by listening to the Word of God, participating in divine worship, personal asceticism, prayer and the communion of fraternal life they direct the whole of their lives and all their activities to the contemplation of God. In this way they offer the ecclesial community a singular testimony of the Church's love for the Lord and they contribute, with hidden apostolic fruitfulness, to the growth of the people of God." 