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CARMELITE HOMEMAKER
FAITH * HOMEMAKING * FEMININITY
A homemaker with a Carmelite heart, seeking to bring the beauty of monastic life into married life


A New Chapter: How I Decided to Begin My Journey with the Secular (Third Order) Discalced Carmelites
(This article is dedicated to my husband, Brandon, without whom I would not be able to so easily pursue this calling to the Secular Discalced Carmelites. For your loving support from the first moment I brought it up...thank you. I love you.) Praised be Jesus Christ! As some of you may already be aware of through my social media posts, I have begun formation with the Secular Discalced Carmelites (OCDS)! Today I just wanted to share how I came to this point, why it wasn't soone


Totality: The Requirement for Union with God
Totality...a strong word. A radical word. One that either sets the heart ablaze with eager zeal or makes it shrink back trembling at the...


The Mindset of Monastic Living
When I first began my journey of living monastically in the world, I didn't realize how simple it would be to implement such a lifestyle...


A Year in Carmel, A Year of Motherhoood: Three Lessons Both Vocations Share
This month, we celebrated my daughter’s first birthday of my little girl. As I looked back at the past 12 months, I thought of how this...


Finding My Personal Relationship with Our Lady
In this month of May, which is dedicated by Catholics to Our Lady, I was thinking about my own journey in my relationship with Mary. As a...


Carmelite Book Study - April
RESCHEDULED: date TBD. I’m so sorry to reschedule my dear friends, but this month has been so hectic for us, between Easter, the baby...


Carmelite Book Study - March!
Praised be Jesus Christ! Time to start diving into our read for March! For those new here, I have begun a Catholic book study group this...


Lent, a Season for Sacrifice: Learning from God the Father
This past Sunday's first reading made a deep impression on me, and the reflection I had on it has remained with me as this week has...


Five Areas to Simplify for Lent
Lent is all about simplifying - cutting out anything worldly that inhibits our relationship with God. Here are five areas of our life in...


Carmelite Book Study - February!
Praised be Jesus Christ! January's Carmelite book study of Carmelite Spirituality in the Teresian Tradition, by Paul-Marie of the Cross,...


Carmelite Book Study!!!
My dear friends, Praised be Jesus Christ! I am beyond thrilled to bring a Catholic book study group to you, focused solely on everything...


Two Things about Advent in the Monastery that Transformed My Experience of Christmas
The Christmas that I had during my year in the Carmelite monastery was unlike anything I have ever experienced. I was raised in a very...


Mental Prayer
Prayer is such a huge part of our spiritual life, and it is the thing around which my whole life was centered in the Carmelite Monastery...


Holy Week in a Carmelite Monastery
As I begin writing this, I almost hesitate to even attempt to capture in words one of the most beautiful spiritual experiences of my...


Feast of the Annunciation
My dear friends, In honor of today's feast of the Annunciation, I just wanted to share a quote from my favorite book on Mary, a book I...
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