Nice Website from the Carmelites!

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ā€œIn the heart of the young men of today, there is an ardent desire to live the ancient way of life of the glorious Carmelite Saints in its full splendor and beauty. The Carmelite monastery in Wyoming is living proof of this powerful reality, having attracted more than five hundred inquiries in the last four years from young men throughout the United States and the entire world.ā€

carmelitemonks.org/Vocations.html

Even though the website doesnā€™t seem to mention it, these Monks do celebrate the Traditional Latin Liturgy. One of the things so amazing about all the inquiries is that there is so little ā€œadvertisingā€ for this monastery that one wonders how anyone has even heard of it. Must be the grace of Godā€“thanks be to Him!
 
Thereā€™s an awesome Carmelite convent in Pennsylvania which doesnā€™t even have a websiteā€“I discovered it by accident. They have a little gift shop and you ring a bell and a nun comes to this little screen, you put your money in this turnstyle thing that she turns to retrieve what is in itā€“so no part of her body leaves the convent. They have a really beautiful church with a huge raredos and great stain glass of Carmelite saints. They were founded in the 1930sā€“they were trying to be more hardcore than other Carmelites at the timeā€“they have the same discipline as they did then, but they donā€™t use the extraordinary form there as far as I know.
 
It is good to see religious communities of men like this.
ā€œIn the heart of the young men of today, there is an ardent desire to live the ancient way of life of the glorious Carmelite Saints in its full splendor and beauty. The Carmelite monastery in Wyoming is living proof of this powerful reality, having attracted more than five hundred inquiries in the last four years from young men throughout the United States and the entire world.ā€
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It is very good to see religious communities of men like this (and of women too, but there are fewer male religious). The Carmelite order has a very powerful spirituality, and even though the monks are contemplative and have withdrawn from the world, they set good examples of how men can live deeply spiritual, prayerful lives.
Brennan Doherty:
Even though the website doesnā€™t seem to mention it, these Monks do celebrate the Traditional Latin Liturgy. One of the things so amazing about all the inquiries is that there is so little ā€œadvertisingā€ for this monastery that one wonders how anyone has even heard of it. Must be the grace of Godā€“thanks be to Him!
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Iā€™m not sure what all they have available, but I know they have a chant CD- Iā€™m sure this catches peopleā€™s interest, and they tell their friends about it.
 
Thanks for this link. Itā€™s good to know that there are communities that are thriving when so much has become secularized.

Very cool site. I felt peaceful just reading it.
 
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