About the Discalced Carmelite Friars

      The Discalced Carmelite Friars are a Roman Catholic religious order of brothers and priests, dedicated to a life of prayerful search for union with God and a manifold service to the Church through a variety of ministries focused on spiritual development. We are about 4100 worldwide. The Washington Province of the Immaculate Heart of Mary serves the people of God in the midwestern and eastern United States and has a mission in Kenya to help establish Carmel there.   Please visit our vocation page for more information!

Where are we?

• National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians at Holy Hill, outside Milwaukee
• Edith Stein House of Studies in Chicago
• Monastery of Mary and Joseph in Brighton (Boston)
• Monastery of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Washington, DC 
• St. Florian Parish in West Milwaukee 
• Monastery of Christ in the Desert (hermitages) in Hinton, WV 
• Monastery of St. John of the Cross in Nairobi, Kenya

      Contact Fr. Michael Berry (ocdvocations@hotmail.com). Candidates usually are between 21 and 40, debt-free and with a college degree preferred.

      For more information about the Order in general, click on the link below to the OCD World.

• OCD World
• St Teresa of Avila
• St John of the Cross