Holy Trinity Carmelite Monastery Australia

16/07/2023

Happy Solemnity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel from your Discalced Carmelite family Down Under! May we allow ourselves to be nourished by moments of silent prayer today and throughout the week ahead. 🙏 🎉

19/08/2022

We need no wings to go in search of God... Such consoling and encouraging words from our wonderful St Teresa of Avila.

06/06/2022

Still basking in the glow of Pentecost, our Monday reflection continues our call for the Spirit to come upon us and our needy world...

Come Holy Spirit, breathe down upon our troubled world.
Shake the tired foundations of our crumbling institutions.
Break the rules that keep you out of all our sacred spaces,
and from the dust and rubble, gather up the seedlings of a new creation.

Come Holy Spirit, enflame once more the dying embers of our weariness.
Shake us out of our complacency. Whisper our names once more,
and scatter your gifts of grace with wild abandon.
Break open the prisons of our inner being,
and let your raging justice be our sign of liberty.

Come Holy Spirit and lead us to places we would rather not go.
Expand the horizons of our limited imaginations.
Awaken in our souls dangerous dreams for a new tomorrow,
and rekindle in our hearts the fire of prophetic enthusiasm.

Come Holy Spirit, whose justice outwits international conspiracy,
whose light outshines religious bigotry,
whose peace can halt our patriarchal hunger for dominance and control.
whose promise invigorates our every effort:
to create a new heaven and a new earth, now and forever. Amen.
~ Diarmid O'Murchu

10/03/2022

Wisdom from St Elizabeth of the Trinity that we constantly need to hear...

24/01/2022

02/01/2022

Happy New Year from your Carmelite family in the Australia-Oceania region! May we all be ever more open to letting ourselves be loved in this fresh new year of grace. 🍃🙏❤️

23/12/2021

A Christmas tableau made by our gifted Sr Quynh.

17/12/2021

Samson RIP

Samson loved a game of tennis but he was hard on tennis balls.

13/12/2021

So we don't need to worry if we don't feel anything in prayer...

08/12/2021

06/12/2021

Crafty Sisters

Crafty Sr Quynh has completed a set of knitted nativity figures.