Prayer is the Heart of Carmel
Silence, Solitude, Practice of the presence of God
Two hours of silent prayer daily Spiritual Reading Once a week Confession Daily Rosary and other Devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary in Community Monastic fast and perpetual abstinence from meat Community and Private Hermit /Retreat days |
Fidelity to Holy Mother Church and to the Traditional Carmelite Spirit lived by our Holy Mother St. Teresa of Jesus
Daily Mass with Gregorian chant, Latin and English hymns carefully chosen for the Sacred Liturgy Divine Office 7 times a day in Community (Sung Vespers in Latin on Sundays and Solemn Feasts) Faithful to the LIfe of Papal Enclosure following the 1990 Constitutions given by St. Teresa to her Nuns in 1581 Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament on Sundays and Solemn Feasts/ Days of Eucharistic Adoration |