On Carmel’s Height, Day & Night, Someone prays for you By Sr. Clare Joseph, O.C.D. Celebration of our Foundation Mother Agnes and Founding Sisters On October 8, 2022, a day after our actual Foundation Day on the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary, our community will mark the 75th Jubilee year since our foundation from the Carmelite monastery in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1947.  We will honor this joyful event with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.  Our Archbishop Charles Thompson will preside while several of our Carmelite friars will join him to concelebrate.  Pending the COVID res ..read more

On March 1, 2021, the Carmelite Monastery of the Mother of God in San Rafael, California, officially closed its doors after 55 years in Marin County.  The four remaining nuns were informed in May after a decree of closure was issued to the archdiocese by the Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life. The sisters range in age from 59-98, the oldest being Mother Dolores Sullivan, OCD, 98, one of the founding sisters of the monastery, founded from the Carmelite monastery in Carmel, California. The monastery resides on 45 acres studded with 400 redwood trees worth millions of ..read more

J.M. ♰ J.T.                                                                                   April 2019 Carmel of the Holy Face of Jesus Discalced Carmelite Nuns 2051 91st. St. SE Hague, ND ..read more