Traditional liturgy

"The Angels surround and help the Priest when he celebrates Mass." (Saint Augustin)

The Eucharist is the center of life in the monastery. The cells are built around the oratory, like the planets around the sun. This is a particular aspect of our rule: Daily Mass: Each day you must meet for Mass. Mass should take place in the morning, because Jesus is the rising sun and every day is a new resurrection.

Hence the meaning of participating in Holy Mass with the white cape, which represents the announcement that we are Children of the Light, baptized into Christ and resurrected with Him (Col.3). Receiving Holy Communion every day means participating in our daily Bread and seeking that Divine life which is transmitted to us through the Sacrament. "He who eats my flesh remains in me and I in him." (Jo 6.56)

Our Eucharistic piety manifests itself in this communion, trying to make this the most sacred and important moment of our day. It is by eating this living bread that we have the strength to continue our journey on this spiritual Mountain, as happened to our Holy Father Elijah (I Rs. 19.8)

Our spirituality must draw from this Eucharistic Source the inexhaustible source of life and Love. The Eucharist is the blessed fruit of the Virgin which we eat as a reward for our victory over sin: "To the overcomer I will feed him (with the fruit) of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God." (App 2.7)

It is the true fruit of the tree of life (cross) planted in the middle of the mystical garden of Carmel. This is why in our shield beyond the cross on the hill, like Discalced Carmelites, we enter into the holy host in the center of the cross, because Eucharistic Jesus is the fruit of this tree, the God with us, our daily heavenly manna.

Oratorium construatur in medio cellularum: ubi mane per singulos dies ad audienda missarum solemnia convenire debeatis.

You can find more information about the Holy Mass, our fight and our fight for the traditional liturgy, and the reason for our faith, as the apostle Paul says, in the Bulletin: "The Karmel".