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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, and offer community, inspiration, and encouragement to help others do the same
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...
Modesty in Dress for Women
Modesty is a topic around which many disagreements occur, even within a group of people who all believe it is important. What determines...
Five Things I Learned at the Carmelite Monastery that can be Used in Life in the World
Today I would like to share a few of the many fruits of my experience during the year I was a postulant at the Carmelite monastery, and...
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