Carmelite Organizations

Order of Carmel Discalced General House in Rome

Communicationes OCD News from the General House

Discalced Carmelite Nuns of St. Louis - The Carmel of St. Joseph

Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites Oklahoma Province

Oaklahoma Province Newsletter by Father John Michael

Discaled Carmelite Friars in the Oklahoma Province of St. Thérèse

United States OCDS National Council

OCDS General in Rome, Father Aloysius Deeney's Blog

Discalced Carmelite Vocation website

Basilica of Holy Hill in Wisconsin

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little Flower in San Antonio, Tx

Carmelite Resources

History of the Carmelite Order

"Oh Beauty exceeding
All other beauties!
Paining, but You wound not
Free of pain You destroy
The love of creatures.

Oh, knot that binds
Two so different,
Why do You become unbound
For when held fast You strengthen
Making injuries seem good.

Bind the one without being
With being unending;
Finish, without finishing,
Love, without having to love,
Magnify our nothingness."

-- St. Teresa of Avila