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DISCALCED CARMELITES TO WELCOME VISITORS
The new Monastery of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Joseph, 361 Highland Blvd., East New York, will have an open house Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 13 and 14, and Friday, Nov. 19, from 2 to 6 p.m. each day.
Five perpetually professed and one temporarily professed contemplative Discalced Carmelite Sisters who live and pray at the monastery “would be happy to have many visitors to our monastery during the days of our open house,” said Mother Maria Luz of the Trinity, who leads the community.
Because of space limitations, only invited guests will be permitted to attend the dedication of the public chapel and monastery by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio on Saturday, Nov. 20. The bishop will then seal the enclosure where the Sisters live.
Mother Maria Luz said persons may attend daily Mass at the monastery chapel daily at 7:30 a.m. and Sundays at 8:30 a.m.
The Sisters arrived at the monastery, formerly occupied by Lithuanian Franciscan Fathers, in August from the Monastery of the Little Flower in Buffalo.
The opening of the new facility marks the formal return of the Carmelite Sisters to Brooklyn. The order’s monastery in Prospect Heights closed in l997 after 90 years at the location.
Beginning Nov. 21, bells preserved from the former monastery will ring daily at 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., marking the chanting by the Sisters of lauds and vespers, or morning and evening prayers, in the Liturgy of the Hours, the Church’s book of daily prayer.
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