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.
