Tag: Carmelite

Their distinctive habits might evoke a galaxy far, far away, but the Little Friars and Little Nuns of Jesus and Mary draw deeply on the Franciscan and Carmelite spiritual traditions. Now they've come from Louisiana to Gymea to give a radical witness to faith.

The Discalced Carmelite nuns in Mathoura in country New South Wales are building their new monastery using a little-known method called rammed earth, a gentle and ancient method proven to stand the test of time.

Five years since five Carmelite nuns from the US founded a strictly enclosed convent in a NSW Riverina town, the convent is celebrating its first fully home-grown vocation—with hundreds travelling from around Australia for the veiling ceremony.

Sr Kathleen Lee is a postulant at the Carmel of Goonellabah, a suburb of Lismore in north-eastern New South Wales. The community is dedicated...

I believe we come to Carmel for our own reasons and stay for God’s reasons. Many Carmelites live outside the walls of friaries and monasteries....

Women flocking to 'joy-filled' convent in country NSW Not long after the Carmelite sisters arrived in the drought affected central west, so did the much-needed...

The Discalced Carmelite community will share their spirituality with a new social media outreach.

As Sydney prepares for the visit of the relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux and her parents Sts Louis and Zélie Martin, her brothers...

There is “nothing" magical about saints' relics, they can help us to connect with God, says bishop.