Blog | Religious Life
Evangelical to Anglican to Catholic…to Carmelite? Seeking Truth.
Leah DesGeorges has spent the last year praying and working with us as one of our Candidates (pictured with Mother Judith). A convert to Catholicism, she recently shared her conversion story…
“How is Your Soul?” A Reflection on Spiritual Motherhood
“How is your soul? Is it taking little steps toward heaven or is it flying there?” These are the words of Mother Luisita, our foundress – a woman who knew well and lived the meaning of the words, “spiritual motherhood.”
Crossing the Threshold of Holy Week…
Even after many, many years as a Carmelite Sister, I still marvel at Holy Week in Carmel. I won’t and shouldn’t write about everything, but I would like to give you a glimpse.
A Good Habit….
Our community was started in Mexico by our Foundress, Mother Luisita in the 1920's. Due to the religious persecution in Mexico at the time, it soon became not just illegal to wear the habit, but very dangerous. As a result, today our sisters wear the habit with deep...
80 Years in the Hands of God
By Sister Mary Jeanne, OCDIn 1924, just a few years before she had to leave her beloved Mexico in disguise as a refugee from religious persecution, Mother Luisita, the foundress of the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles, prepared a young girl...
Light of Love
The movie by Imagine Sisters, a movement that “wants to encourage and inspire a culture of vocations to women’s religious life by fostering a deep desire for holiness through the witness of religious sisters,” can be viewed here.
Watching and Waiting
To experience Advent in Carmel is to enter into a rarified atmosphere that is filled to the brim with Carmel’s living legacy of Advent customs and observances.
Give Thanks With A Grateful Heart!
The Carmelite Sisters wish you a most Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving!
Once Upon a Day of Prayer | Rediscovering St. Therese
A Reflection on the Little Way of St. Therese
Remembering Mother Margarita Maria
Those who knew Mother Margarita know that throughout life her goal was to be faithful to Christ until the end. This was a predominant thought expressed in many of her speeches and finally realized at the end of her earthly life. Today, 25 years after her death, it is fitting to revisit the beautiful words spoken about her.