This call to intimate friendship with God is a mystery and a gift. 

The call to Carmel is an invitation to a life-long journey of transforming union in Christ through a life of prayer for the needs of the Church and the world.

St. Thérèse speaks of the life of a Carmelite in these words: “Everything I do, my actions, my looks, everything. . . Is done through love.”  We believe the call to follow Jesus as a Carmelite Nun is a call to give oneself in unconditional love to LOVE.   We believe a life of prayer is a life of love.

We know the goal: union with God. You may ask, “what is union with God and how do I attain it?” Union with God means seeking to do the will of God with every choice we make.  Our growth in union with God can’t be seen, but it happens as surely and as slowly as the germination of an acorn and its maturing into an oak tree.