Austin Community of Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites (OCDS)

Austin Community of Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites (OCDS) In honoring our founding saints, Teresa of Jesus and John of The Cross, and in communion with our patroness, St.

Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, our Community prays for an increase in vocations of friars and nuns to the Discalced Carmelite Order. Our Community is part of the Semi-Province of St. Therese, the Oklahoma Province, of the Order of Discalced Carmelites. For more information, please visit: http://www.m.carmelitefriarsocd.com and http://www.thereseocds.org as well as our own website, https://www.aus

tincarmelites.com/ . For consideration in visiting one of our Austin Community meetings, please contact either Council member Sandra Gremp, [email protected], or Karen Phipps, [email protected].

06/14/2026
06/10/2026

Little Flower Basilica offers spirituality workshops in partnership with the San Antonio Secular Carmelites that are free to attend!

Join us for the next workshop, "Journey Through the Dark Night with St. John of the Cross" the first session of a two-part series, Saturday, June 20 at 9am at Little Flower Hall (907 Kentucky Ave.)

Register to attend and learn more about the St. John of the Cross jubilee at littleflowerbasilica.org/sjc-jubilee

06/10/2026

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, “the Little Flower,” profoundly understood the gentle and humble heart of Jesus. In contemplating how to be transformed by Christ's love, she reflected that “What pleases [Jesus] is that he sees me loving my littleness and my poverty, the blind hope that I have in his mercy… the weaker one is, without desires or virtues, the more suited one is for the workings of this consuming and transforming Love” (Letter 197 to Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart, September 17, 1896). Let us join with Saint Thérèse in praying for our hearts to be humble like Jesus.

Blessed Anne of Saint Bartholomew, pray for us!
06/07/2026

Blessed Anne of Saint Bartholomew, pray for us!

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