Sisters of Our Lady Immaculate
Our earnest desire is to live the religious life faithfully and to teach the Faith correctly and courageously. We strive to do this by offering our lives, works and prayers that our Catholic people, adults as well as children will come to know their Faith again, what it means to be a Catholic, to live a Catholic life.
The Carmel of St. Joseph
The Carmel of St. Joseph belongs to the Discalced Carmelite Order. The word, ‘Discalced’ means ‘without shoes’.
The Discalced Carmelite Nuns are a cloistered contemplative community rooted in the biblical tradition of the solitary prophet Elijah of Mount Carmel. His challenging cry: “The Lord lives, in Whose Presence I stand” (1 Kings 18:15) has become a model of life.
Reformed to its original Rule and austerity by St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross, our religious family blends the hermit-life of those early prophets with a supportive community atmosphere. All this is oriented to a deep personal friendship with (and imitation of) Christ, characterized by its hidden apostolic fruitfulness for the Church and the world – So much so that if our prayers, self-immolation and whole manner of life are not according to these high ideals, we fail to live up to the vocation for which God brought us together.