carmelite

A family friend was a Discalced Carmelite nun, ergo a member of a cloistered community.

Sister Mary Joseph had only chosen to be a Carmelite nun after her husband had died and her children had grown up.

There seem to just be 2 levels here: lay Catholic and Carmelite nun.

A carmelite nun or Franciscan friar would be examples of that.

I would be unsurprised if the Carmelite Orders likewise invested significant maintenance in the old Roman construction, and learned from it as well.

Compiègne was the site of a royal residence from 1374 until the Revolution, and the site of a Carmelite convent (which received significant royal support) from 1641 until 1792.

Explore contemplative traditions of Hesychasm, Centering Prayer, Hesychasm, Carmelite mystics, etc.

I knew a cloistered Discalced Carmelite nun, though as I recall she met my stepmother and me (male) in the convent garden for a handoff of plants.

: > From their monastery nestled deep in the Rocky Mountains, the Wyoming Carmelites (a small group of Carmelite Monks) ­were looking for a way to support their growing community.

I am not sure of their operational status today, but in Medieval Western Europe, it was Carmelite communities who built aqueducts; even as they struggled to reform themselves during the Counterreformation, religious communities were undertaking large-scale engineering projects, because they controlled enough labor workforce, as well as technology and supply chains, to make that happen.

My folks knew a woman who became a Discalced Carmelite.

The Western school of passive contemplation has, since the 16th Century, been profoundly shaped by the writings of two Spanish authors, John of the Cross[4] and Teresa of Ávila[5], together known as the Carmelite[6] Doctors.