EmilyAnn Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 So beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FutureCarmeliteClaire Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 [quote name='the171' timestamp='1331009008' post='2396745'] CLAIREEE, I just fished up this old blog post that made me laugh. The first part is what got me. How far I've come... [url="http://luckily-catholic.blogspot.com/2011/04/sadly.html"]http://luckily-catho...1/04/sadly.html[/url] [/quote] Haha, very true!! That is so funny, I talked to Sr. Immaculata too!! I LOVE those Benedictine... All of these orders are so beautiful, I have been talking to so many and corresponding, but Carmel is just something that won't leave my heart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MessorCarus Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 These are wonderful, I can really sense the tranquil simplicity. It does carry a beautiful peace that even through photographs, you just feel...embraced. Oh Carmel, how wonderful it must be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Immanuel Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Wow, these are so wonderful I love the one with the sister standing on a whitewashed balcony against the blue sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indwelling Trinity Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Yes, Many of the pictures are of Port Tobacco Maryland. I was a novice with many of the sisters shown as well as Sister John of the Cross and Mother Mary Joseph who has since gone on to her reward. This is a unique Carmel as the sisters live in individual hermitages although they follow the traditional Carmelite horarium. A few of the sisters are no longer there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the171 Posted March 9, 2012 Author Share Posted March 9, 2012 [quote name='Indwelling Trinity' timestamp='1331270270' post='2398098'] Yes, Many of the pictures are of Port Tobacco Maryland. I was a novice with many of the sisters shown as well as Sister John of the Cross and Mother Mary Joseph who has since gone on to her reward. This is a unique Carmel as the sisters live in individual hermitages although they follow the traditional Carmelite horarium. A few of the sisters are no longer there. [/quote] I think I had heard something of them. I guess for them it is hermit over community? I don't see how you could balance that with the hermitages. Do they have recreation together, etc. The usually community things? Or do they do some things, normally done in community, alone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indwelling Trinity Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 (edited) [quote name='the171' timestamp='1331270620' post='2398102'] I think I had heard something of them. I guess for them it is hermit over community? I don't see how you could balance that with the hermitages. Do they have recreation together, etc. The usually community things? Or do they do some things, normally done in community, alone? [/quote] Port Tobacco follows the traditional Teresian Carmelite rule. The only difference is that instead of going to ones cell one goes to her hermitage. Fridays are hermit days with only Mass in the morning and Matins for the following day at 9 PM together. All other days are the same as in a regular Carmelite monastery. The monastery is located on three hundred acres. It is the site of the first Carmelite Monastery in the Unitied States. Last I spoke to Mother Virginia Marie, they were 9 sisters. Port Tobacco is a beautiful Carmel; however I was looking for even greater soltude than traditional Teresian Carmels offered and so I left to go to a hermit Carmel in which we came together only for daily Mass and recreation and dinner together once a week on Saturday evenings. Prayer, meals and the bulk of the rest of the time was spent in the silence and solitude of the hermitage unless one had work tthat required them to work outside of one's hermitage. In my hermitage each sister had her own horarium approved by the prioress. only Mass and occasional community activities had to be in synch with everyone else. There was solid structure but in a way that helped each sister best individually to grow in her solitary life with God as a hermit. However most vocations do not start out as hermits. For most it is a gradual progression. I hope I don't have you too confused. Basically my community,the Hermits of St Mary of Carmel adopted the original Carmelte charism keeping the life of silence, solitude, prayer and penance in the hermitage as most central to our lives. Life at Port Tobacco was wonderfully happy and so very healthy in every way! Edited March 9, 2012 by Indwelling Trinity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeaRoma Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Those photos are amazing, they really show the beauty in the simplicity of religious life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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