Welcome to the Discalced Carmelites Network:

• We especially welcome those receptive souls acting upon the inspirations of the Holy Spirit in search of their vocation.
• You can find introductory information to help in your early discernment and how to respond if you recognize Carmel written upon your heart.
• This is a working web site providing information common to the Secular Order and information unique to each of the communities listed here.
• We provide [free web services] for every OCD or OCDS community, study group or group in discernment on request.

The purpose of the Discalced Carmelites Network is to:

• Create a comprehensive directory of the Teresian Carmels in the United States and [coming soon] throughout the world;
• Encourage vocations to the Order of Carmelites Discalced;
• Promote fraternal charity and solidarity within the Order;
• Provide a free web site and support service for every OCD or OCDS community that wants one;
• Enable inquirers to contact a closeby community;
• And network communities.

Select the state with your community of interest below.

	Ordo Carmelitarum Discalceatorum OCDS National Council of the United States of America
Washington Province		Cracow Province
Oklahoma Province		Castille Province [en español, translate this page]
California-Arizona Province		Warsaw Province
AK Alaska AL Alabama AR Arkansas AZ Arizona CA California CO Colorado CT Connecticut DC District of Columbia DE Delaware FL Florida GA Georgia HI Hawaii IA Iowa	ID Idaho IL Illinois IN Indiana KS Kansas KY Kentucky LA Louisiana MA Massachusetts MD Maryland ME Maine MI Michigan MN Minnesota MO Missouri MS Mississippi	MT Montana NC North Carolina ND North Dakota NE Nebraska NH New Hampshire NJ New Jersey NM New Mexico NV Nevada NY New York OH Ohio OK Oklahoma OR Oregon PA Pennsylvania	RI Rhode Island SC South Carolina SD South Dakota TN Tennessee TX Texas UT Utah VA Virginia VT Vermont WA Washington WI Wisconsin WV West Virginia WY Wyoming

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Web services are provided by the [OCDS Study Group at Madison, AL]

"The astonishing thing about prayer is our inability to accept that if we have need of it,
 as we do, then because of God’s goodness, it cannot be something that is difficult.
 Accept that God is good and that your relationship with Him is prayer, and you must conclude
 that prayer is an act of the utmost simplicity.
 
Yet so many people seem to feel that there is some mysterious method, some way in that others know,
 but they do not. ‘Knock and it shall be opened to you’: they seem to believe that it needs
 some sort of Masonic knock and their own humble tapping will go unnoticed.
 
What kind of God thinks of tricks, lays down arcane rules, makes things difficult?
 God wants to love us and to give Himself. He wants to draw us to Himself,
 strengthen us, and infuse His peace.
 
The humblest, most modest, almost imperceptible rubbing of our fingers on the door, and it flies open….
 Prayer is the last thing we should feel discouraged about."
                                                                        On Prayer, Sr. Wendy Beckett

[Contact Us] to locate a nearby community, request free web services
for your OCD or OCDS community or to have your site listed here.