What Are You Willing to Die For?

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This is an age for Saints. There is a great darkness in the world, and profound spiritual sickness. But it is in the darkest hours that Christ’s light burns most brightly in the saints deeply united to Him.
About this Religious Community:
The Discalced Hermits of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is a Roman Catholic contemplative religious order observing the ancient Carmelite charism as it was lived on Mount Carmel and in the Discalced Carmelite Holy Deserts.
Fully observing this ancient observance, the semi-eremitical contemplative religious life of the Discalced Hermits of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is vivified especially by the assiduous practice of mental prayer, sacred liturgy, spiritual study, fraternal charity, silence, solitude, and penance. In addition, as reformed, specifically discalced or “barefooted” religious, the Discalced Hermits of Our Lady of Mount Carmel observe a unique religious poverty and austerity that is not common in the secular world or even in most religious communities today. Thus, the Hermits forego most modern conveniences like electricity, modern heating and cooling systems, etc. Rather, employing wood for cooking and heating, candles for lighting, and manually transporting water and other necessities, we cultivate a greater simplicity and a more rustic and virile lifestyle, which serve as powerful aids to recollection, contemplation, and penance, in opposition to a modern world that is estranged from the interior life and enslaved by physical comfort and convenience. The unmitigated Rule of St. Albert lays the foundations of this religious observance, which provides the Hermit with the fullness of the exterior means to attain to that interior sanctification which is the fruit of Christ’s Saving Cross and is the beginning of eternal beatitude, and this work of sanctification and union with God deeply benefits the entire Catholic Church in powerful ways.
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