Build a Monastery for Carmelite Sisters

A community of cloistered Discalced Carmelite nuns need our help to build a new monastery in Pennsylvania, as life in Brooklyn has proved too dangerous for them to remain there.

Our Carmelite Monastery, in the Diocese of Brooklyn, is located next to a park (just 10 feet away from our wall)

which has proved to be a real problem and in recent times, even a danger for our Community. 

The area directly behind our wall has become a hangout for gangs who blast horrendous music (if one can call it music)

all hours of the night. Worse than the noise, however, is the late night carousing, drinking and drugs, as well as the evidence of satanic rituals just feet away from us. 

Under such conditions it is impossible for our Community to grow and flourish. We are a Community of ten Sisters and we have several inquiries from young woman who feel called to our Carmel; however it would be impossible to receive them at

In addition, a rural setting would be a great help and stimulus to contemplative life and with the uncertainty of these times, it would afford us the opportunity to be more self-sufficient.

This summer a family near Scranton, PA donated 13 acres of their property to us in order to build a Carmelite Monastery.  

It is an ideal site for a Contemplative Monastery and an architect friend of our Community has drawn plans for us to build an authentic Spanish Carmel, like those in which Our Holy Mother, St. Teresa of Jesus and her daughters lived in, following the beautiful yet austere Carmelite architecture which has characterized so many of our Monasteries throughout the centuries in Catholic Spain.

With your help, we hope to build a Monastery where God will be glorified by the beautiful traditional Latin Liturgy.

We were given a rough estimate that building this particular kind of Monastery, and moving everything from Brooklyn to Pleasant Mount, will cost around 15 million dollars.

However, it is important for us to leave Brooklyn as soon as possible due to our current difficulties, so we plan to begin by building one wing of the cloister, where we could reside and begin living our religious life, while the rest of the Monastery is being constructed. We estimate that this initial phase will cost about 2 million dollars. 

Within the simplicity and poverty of our Carmelite charism, we hope to eventually build a Chapel and cloister worthy of the majesty of God and which will be a place set apart as consecrated ground.

However it would be a great blessing for our Community to move by the end of this year to an initial structure of the new Monastery. 

If you are able to contribute anything, especially toward this initial goal, these poor Discalced Carmelites and a multitude of

When we arrived in the Diocese of Brooklyn, 16 years ago, to begin this foundation, we were given a property which had a

the Diocese without any revenue given to our Community, in spite of any renovations which we might have to make (and

Now that we are unable to find another suitable place to relocate within the Diocese of Brooklyn, but a beautiful

property has been donated to us by a generous family in the Diocese of Scranton, we find ourselves without any

means to build! And this is where we need your help.

It is recorded in the Book of the Foundations, of Our Holy Mother St. Teresa of Avila, foundress of many Carmel’s, that

she had visions of what great glory was given to God through the benefactors who helped to build her Carmelite

Monasteries, and how useful such a work was for the Church. 

She also saw what great benefits were given to those who generously contributed to build her Carmel’s, and the countless

graces which they received from using their means to advance the founding of a Contemplative Monastery. 

Our Community, with grateful hearts, offers perpetual prayers and Masses for our benefactors, living and deceased. Be assured that Our Lord is never outdone in generosity; He always repays us a hundred-fold for all that we give in this life to build His Kingdom. 

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