All Carmelite service and ministry flow from community living and prayer. Our ministries are varied and, like all Christian service, are directed towards the coming of the Kingdom of God in response to the words of the Lord’s Prayer – your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven.
Carmelites are inspired by the Virgin Mary’s ‘yes’ to God. Carmelite ministry tries to show people the love and compassion of the God who entered this world through Mary.
As members of an international brotherhood. Carmelites are working in all five continents - in friaries and churches, in parishes, in schools and universities, in centres of spirituality, in hospitals and prisons, and among the poor especially in areas of Africa, Latin America and Oceania.
In Ireland Carmelites have care of parishes in Dublin: Whitefriar Street – also an important and historic city centre church – Knocklyon and Beaumont. In County Kilkenny the parish of Ballyhale is served from the friary at Knocktopher. People come to these, and to other Carmelite churches at Kinsale, Kildare, Moate, Knocktopher,
James is 24 years old and originally from Granard, Co. Longford: I joined the Order in 2007 as a novice coming from a background in Musical performance and Youth ministry. Having completed by novitiate in Aylesford, Kent, I was professed on August 31st 2008 at Gort Muire where I am now a member of the community. I am studying philosophy at NUI Maynooth. Since joining the Order I have been the opportunity to continue my love of all things musical. While in Aylesford I produced an album and DVD of music and Song for the British Province of Carmelites; ‘Timeless Echoes’ tries to open the sights and sounds of the Carmelite way of life to a wider audience.