T he Carmelite nuns represent a significant and unique branch of the Roman Catholic Church, dedicated to a cloistered life of prayer and contemplation. This contemplative order has a rich history ...

Sis of the Diocese of San Angelo said. Sister Mary Grace Erl, Order of the Carmelites, and Sister Mary Michael Merlinger, Order of the Carmelites, came to the Diocese of San Angelo in 1989 from ...

a month after its residents were dismissed from the Carmelite order and religious life. The decree, issued Nov. 28 by the Vatican Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of ...

The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, celebrated on July 16, was first instituted in the late 14th century in commemoration of the approval of the rule of the Carmelite Order a hundred years earlier.