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The Carmelites are a religious order within the Catholic Church. We are descended from
a community of medieval hermits who gathered together on Mount Carmel in Palestine near
the end of the 12th century to devote themselves to a life of deeper prayer. Our
order, the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, received its Rule at the beginning of the 13th century
from Albert, the patriarch of Jerusalem, and takes the prophet Elijah and Mary, the Mother
of God, as its models for following in the footsteps of Christ (in obsequio Jesu Christi).
Our community was reformed in the 16th Century by Sts. Teresa of
Avila and John of the Cross, and our vocation is to foster the contemplative life and to show people the way to
friendship with God. Therese of Lisieux,
Elisabeth of the Holy Trinity, Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, and Edith Stein,
along with many other holy Carmelite men and women, both guide us and serve as shining
examples of our spirit.
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