2024-2025 Solar Installation
Let There Be Light!
Praised Be Jesus Christ!
Dear our beloved supporters,
We are happy to announce the completion of our “Let There Be Light” capital campaign!! Through your generosity, you have provided our beloved Monastery and Sisters with a source of funds to install the solar power system, which is much needed to mitigate the growing cost of our electric bills.
This momentous milestone was achieved by your support and generosity and through the collaborative efforts of our volunteers. Therefore, we express our profound gratitude to you and all our volunteers. As we begin to prepare to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of our Monastery, your gift allows us to continue our cloistered contemplative community and life of prayer. We recognize the Carmelite’s journey is not for herself alone. Our life of prayer and friendship with God affects the lives of countless others, including you as one of our generous donors. Your support also shows a commitment that ensures the continuation of the spiritual Catholic practice by all of us.
We finished the “discovery stage” of the project and are underway in starting the main part of the solar power system installation. Please stay tuned for more information and status updates as the project progresses.
We extend our profound gratitude and promise of prayers for your generous support. We will have a Mass of Thanksgiving for your intentions. Details of the Mass will be shared with you soon!
2012 Renovations
Chapel and Monastery Grounds Renovations
Thanks to the generosity of our good friends and benefactors, we were able to complete the major renovation project, which began and completed in 2012. There were many surprises along the way! One of the Sisters wanted to ride the boom up to take some close-up pictures of the terra-cotta Calvary Statues on the pinnacle of our Chapel façade, only to discover that it was badly damaged after 81 years of coastal weather. That meant that it had to be dismantled and taken down for restoration, and it meant another $40,000 added to the project! It is reinforced and better than new!
All the architects and experts were very impressed at how well the terra-cotta on the exterior and interior of the Chapel has held up all these years. We now know the best technology to use to keep up good maintenance on it for the future.
