Welcome to the Discalced Carmelites community
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Langata South Road, P. O. Box 24109 - 00502,Karen, Nairobi
Welcome to the Discalced Carmelites community
Langata South Road, P. O. Box 24109 - 00502,Karen, Nairobi
About the Discalced Carmelite Friars
The Discalced Carmelites are a Roman Catholic religious community of priests, brothers, nuns, and laity serving the Church through lives of prayer and ministry, in a fraternal setting. Our roots go back to twelfth-century hermits on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land. The Discalced Carmelites were established by St. Teresa of Avila in 1562 and St. John of the Cross in 1568 to renew the Order’s commitment to contemplation, simplicity, and community.
Come serve the Lord in the vineyard of Carmel
A call to a hidden union with God
It is for this twofold service , contemplative and active, that we share life as brothers in the community
Teresa de Ahumada was born in 1515 in Ávila, Spain. She entered the Carmelites and made great progress in the way of perfection and was granted mystical revelations. Wishing to share in the spiritual renewal of the Church of her time, she began to live her religious life more ardently and soon attracted many companions, to whom she was a mother. She also helped in the reform of the friars, and in this had to endure great trials. She wrote several spiritual classics like, The Way of Perfection and The Interior Castle, which are renowned for their depth of doctrine and which showed her own spiritual depth and experience. Read more
Born in Fontiveros, Spain, Juan de Yepes entered the Carmelites and, with the permission of his superiors, began to live a stricter observance. Afterwards he was persuaded by St. Teresa to begin, together with some others, the Discalced reform of the Order; this cost him much hard work and many trials. Read more
Thérèse Martin was born in Alençon, France. While still young, she entered the Carmel of Lisieux. There she lived with the greatest humility, evangelical simplicity, and confidence in God. By her words and example she taught the novices these same virtues, offering her life for the salvation of souls and the spread of the Church. Read more
We are the Discalced Carmelites.
Scripture
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with teh yoke of bondage.
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