J.M.J.

The Carmel in St. Louis has a new and very beautiful website.

Carmel

The pictures of the chapel are beautiful. It makes me want to go visit . I believe this Carmel follows the 1991 Constitution. They are part of the St. Teresa Association.

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Thanks. But, does anyone wonder when they're going to stop calling calced carmelites discalced?!

Ohhhh...I'm so slow! For a minute I thought it was about nuns! It's about the lay people's group [not that I'm looking down my nose on this wonderful vocation at all!!]

Please come to St. Louis and visit this monastery--it is absolutely beautiful, not too spare and not too ornate--just right!
We are fortunate to have several active monasteries in the St. Louis area, Pink Sisters, Redemptoristines, Poor Clares, Passionists, too.

After I had started our parish vocation committee in St. Joe, MO, I had planned a Monastic Tour of St. Louis--had even booked rooms at Kendrick Seminary with permission to use their monastic-style chapel. The bus tour would've been four hours to St. Louis, and we planned movies like "The Nun's Story" and some other vocation videos which were shorter. The three day event would've taken us from the heart of St. Louis out to Liguori, Flourissant, Ellisville, and would've ended at the shrine of St. Rose Phillippine (sp?) in St. Charles.

If anyone wants to hear more about the itinerary, just post here, and I can tell the world about it.

Blessings,
Gemma

I just noticed this but I pasted the secular link. And then when I went to check I noticed that the link to the OCD nuns in St. Louis is the same somehow as the secular... ok go to "links" on the secular page and click on the first link. This is the new website for the Carmelite nuns in St. Louis. It is really great. I wonder how the two websites are the same... hmm. I don't know, but the nuns' new website is awesome. Check is out. It is the first link.

I love their chapel. It's a little oasis of Joy and Love in a very posh area of St. Louis. (Their land must be worth millions! I love that they're where they are, it shows where our real treasure is!)

They have a wonderful podcast as well

I know it's just from the website and pictures, but
I
am in love
with this Carmel.


(And I live so close! Oh, I want to go visit! Visit/discern. I will have to see about weekend retreats/discernment periods there once I'm in college...)

Yes, this Carmel is under the 1991s. They do have an incredibly beautiful monastery and public chapel! They're the second oldest in the US.

There are many great Carmels out there though that have no web presense - here's my album page with a few great Carmels I've heard of - http://picasaweb.google.com/ocdnuns

You know, we have 3 Carmels in Missouri--St. Louis, Jefferson City, and Springfield. They all have room for one more !

The Jefferson City Carmel of the Sacred Heart & St. Joseph is under the 1990s. Both them & the Springfield, MO, Carmel of St. Anne are in the St. Joseph's Association - http://carmelitenunsstjoseph.org/

It's neat having the Carmel in the US book, with all the official names of the Carmels, and a few pictures of each one. :j Jefferson City was founded in 1960 from the Santa Fe Carmel (Mexican line) & Springfield was founded in 1965 from St. Louis (Belgian/French line) Their monasteries and public chapels though, I admit, are definitely no where in comparison to St. Louis' - theirs is incredible!