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| Community Profile |
| Carmelite Nuns of Port Tobacco |
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| Community Information |
No. in community (professed members) | 10 |
Year founded | 1976 |
Generalate/ motherhouse | Autonomous |
Province/federation | Autonomous |
Represented in US (Arch)dioceses | Washington, DC |
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| About Us |
Mission statement/description
This community's apostolate is prayer - for the Church, especially priests, and for the whole world. Their charism is guided by their foundress, St. Teresa of Avila, and by St. John of the Cross. St. Therese of Lisieux has also influenced many who have been drawn to this life of total giving of self to God. They are cloistered Carmelite nuns, following strict papal enclosure. 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. |
Qualifications for entry
Women need to have a minimum of one year of work or college experience, good health, maturity to make a life-long commitment, prayerfulness, and some knowledge of Carmelite spirituality, obtained by reading one or more of their saints' writings. |
Formation program
Live-in experience: one-three months; postulancy: six-twelve months; receive Carmelite habit and then two-year novitiate; make first profession and stay three more years in the novitiate; make solemn profession and then receive the black veil. |
Age range/limit
20-40 |
Consider belated vocations?
No |
Belated/late vocations explanation
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Institute on Religious Life, P.O. Box 7500, Libertyville, IL 60048-7500
Tel: (847) 573-8975 - Fax: (847) 573-8960 |
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