Community Profile

Carmelite Nuns, Monastery of Seattle Vocation Contact 2215 NE 147th St Shoreline, WA 98155-7393 206-363-7150 seattlecarmel@att.net

Community Information

No. in community (professed members) 9 Year founded 1908 Generalate/ motherhouse Autonomous Province/federation Autonomous Represented in US (Arch)dioceses Seattle, WA

About Us

Mission statement/description The call to Carmel is a call to serve the Church through prayer and sacrifice. Their apostolate is contemplative prayer for the Church within enclosure. The Order of Carmel dates to its spiritual founder, the prophet Elijah on Mount Carmel, 900 years before Christ. These nuns 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. Their charism is guided by their foundress, St. Teresa of Avila, and by St. John of the Cross. Qualifications for entry Sound mental and physical health; good judgment and common sense. Formation program Formation consists of postulancy, novitiate, temporary profession, and then permanent profession. Age range/limit Consider belated vocations? No Belated/late vocations explanation