Community Profile

Discalced Carmelite Nuns, Carmel of Mary Immaculate and St. Mary Magdalen Mother Anne of Christ, O.C.D. Prioress 26 Harmony School Rd Flemington, NJ 08822-2606 908-782-4802 www.FlemingtonCarmel.org

Community Information

International? Yes No. in community (professed members) 16 Year founded 1949 Generalate/ motherhouse Autonomous Province/federation Autonomous Represented in US (Arch)dioceses Metuchen, NJ

About Us

Mission statement/description The Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Flemington follow the ideal of life established by St. Teresa of Avila to support the Church by their contemplative lives of prayer. Their loving fidelity to the Magisterium is lived out in the cloister where prayer, solitude and the common life in a Marian spirit nourish an apostolic zeal. Qualifications for entry Indication of a divine vocation, good health, great desires, common sense, sufficient maturity. Formation program One year of postulancy, two years of novitiate, three years of temporary vows before solemn profession. Age range/limit 18-35 Consider belated vocations? No Belated/late vocations explanation Ordinarily no one over 35.