Our next meeting will be on Sunday, April 27th, 2025, beginning with Vespers in the monastery chapel at 4 pm.

Are you looking for a more spiritual life, deep contentment, and a community to help you get to heaven?

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Welcome to the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites, Our Lady Queen of Peace Community!

We hope you enjoy our site!  Please note that you may access the Pages of this website on the top right if you cannot see the tabs above.    If you have any further questions, please contact us on the last Page of this site.

If you are interested in joining the Secular Carmelites, you would have to attend a prescribed amount of meetings, then ask the Director of Formation to provide you with an application for joining.  In addition, you would present us with your Baptismal Certificate and Confirmation Certificate, plus a letter (form letter is fine) from your parish certifying that you are a member there.  Also, you need to be fully able to receive all the sacraments.  The council would then look at these materials and vote on your acceptance.

Upon acceptance, you would begin attending formation lessons (before or after the meetings).  After one year, you would receive your Scapular and choose a predicate name; after two years, you would make your First Promises; and after three years, you would make your Final Promises.

Congratulations to Kathy, who received her Scapular on January 26, 2025.

Some photos from our Carmelite pilgrimage to Spain 25- February to 6 March, 2025.

Our OCDS Corpus Christi altar: June 2, 2024

The Shrine of Our Lady of the Scapular in Burundi, Africa, established and directed by Carmelite Missionaries (Images provided by Fr. Fryderyk Jaworski, OCD).