In the heart of the Church, I will be Love!

After St. Therese of the Child Jesus' above exclamation, perhaps the best description of Carmelite spirituality is in our Constitutions: "The apostolate to which St. Teresa wished to dedicate her daughters is the purely contemplative one...

The Discalced Carmelite Nuns are united with Christ who intercedes for us and offers Himself for us. With Him, they offer themselves to God, and complete what is lacking in the passion of the Lord in favor of His Mystical Body (cf. Col. 1, 24).

In this way, they open themselves to the action of the Holy Spirit who guides the Church and gives it life; and they move toward achieving that pure and solitary love which is more precious in God's sight and of greater profit for the Church than a great many other works taken together" (# 126).