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Carmelite Nuns, Arlington, Texas
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Arlington Carmel was founded in 1958. Our first monastery was in Fort Worth, Texas, in two renovated residences, where we lived our contemplative Carmelite life for 26 years. When the need for a permanent monastery became evident to us, after much prayer and help from our good friends and benefactors, we planned, designed and built our new Monastery in southwest Arlington, Texas, where we are now living since November 1984.
Our life of prayer consists in our daily praise and worship of God in the Mass, Divine Office, and personal silent prayer and recollection, and our work includes printing, ceramics, art work, assorted cards and Perpetual Remembrances, Novena notices, newsletters, and general household and yard work... basic upkeep of the monastery.
As contemplatives our apostolate is prayer, and our hidden life of continual prayer at the "heart of the Church" is lived in the silence and solitude of the cloister (Papal Enclosure), offering ourselves to God each day in intercessory prayer and sacrifice for the welfare of the Church and the world. Our Carmelite Vocation is one of joy and fulfillment, consecrated by vows and shared with one another in daily sisterly community life and devoted service, very much aware of and united in spirit with our brothers and sisters throughout the world.
