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Carmelite Monastery, Launceston
(in Hobart Archdiocese)
LIFE IN THE ORDER
* We live in strict papal enclosure as desired by St. Teresa and given by the Church.
* Our life is essentially one of prayer and sacrifice, supported by life in community.
* We enjoy two hours of community recreation each day.
* Each month the sisters have a private hermitage day.
* Each year the sisters make a 10-day private retreat in the hermitage.
* Each year the community has an 8-day preached retreat.
* We wear the habit of Our Lady of Mount Carmel as a sign of our consecration.
* Simple manual work, housework, gardening, sewing, printing occupies 5 hours a day.
PRAYER
* Daily Holy Mass and the full Divine Office (Liturgy of the Hours)
* 2 hours of contemplative prayer made in community each day.
* 1 hour of spiritual reading daily in the cell.
* We also pray the Angelus 3 times a day.
* The rosary is said privately by each sister.
CONTACT PERSON
Mother Prioress OCD
Carmelite Monastery
7 Cambridge St.,
Launceston TAS 7250
Tel: (03) 63313585
Click here to contact the sisters
by email.
YOUNG SISTER'S TESTIMONY
Feeling called to the contemplative life, and having sought guidance
in the discernment of God's will, I was led to this community. I
found a lifestyle totally dedicated to prayer and sacrifice lived
in strict enclosure for the glory of God, the good of Holy Church
and the salvation of souls.
It was the "cloistered desert" I had been looking for.
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