Accompanying Australians and Timorese on their life journey through spiritual and pastoral care
Every day the Carmelites are in communities giving a helping hand to someone in need. It may be providing comfort and companionship to a frail or elderly person, celebrating a birth or marriage, or teaching young people life-transforming skills that can lead them to a job or career.
We do all this by offering pastoral and spiritual companionship to people. And since 2001 we have worked with the Timorese to not only rebuild their communities but also to help them recover from the hurt of their painful past.
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IMAGE: Carmelites offering Mass / in service
Carmelites with Australians chatting
Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of the land throughout Australia and Timor-Leste. We recognise their connection to land, water and community. We pay our respects to First Peoples, their cultures and to Elders past, present and emerging.
Since our beginnings in the 13th century, Carmelites have sought to follow Christ in a fraternal community united in a spirit of contemplative prayer and our desire to be of service to God and to the people among whom we live. The Lay Carmelites are just what the name implies: lay men and women who form an integral part of the Carmelite family and try to live out the Carmelite way of life in the ordinary circumstances of our family and social life.
