Community Profile

Discalced Carmelite Nuns Mother Rose Teresa O.C.D. Prioress 49 Mount Carmel Rd Santa Fe, NM 87505-0352 505-983-7232

Community Information

No. in community (professed members) 8 Year founded 1945 Generalate/ motherhouse Autonomous Province/federation Autonomous Represented in US (Arch)dioceses Santa Fe, NM

About Us

Mission statement/description This is a cloistered community of contemplative prayer in which the sisters live their lives for God and for His Church. The call to Carmel is a call to serve the Church through prayer and sacrifice. The sisters' charism is guided by their foundress, St. Teresa of Avila, and by St. John of the Cross. The essence of the Carmelite contemplative life is: living in the presence of God, in imitation of their most pure Mother Mary and the prophet Elijah, their spiritual founder who lived 900 years before Christ. Qualifications for entry Sufficient mental and physical health; high school education at least. Formation program Formation consists of postulancy, novitiate, temporary profession, and then permanent profession. Ongoing formation occurs within the community, both during the years of the novitiate and thereafter. Age range/limit 20-40 Consider belated vocations? Yes Belated/late vocations explanation There have been exceptions to the above received.