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            The New Mount Carmel Foundation, Inc. has received the conceptual designs for the monks' monastery from our Design Architect, McCrery Architects, LLC.  While still at a preliminary and conceptual stage of planning, the watercolor renderings, Conceptual Drawing of Monastery physical architectural model, 3-D computer aided design model animations, still images, and floor plans found throughout this website seek to provide you with a very good idea of the monumental work undertaken. 

            The watercolor rendering shows an aerial view of the monastery complex of the Monks of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel.  One will quickly notice that the Blessed Sacrament is the center of the proposed monastery from which all life, all monastic tradition flows.  The Lord’s House, the magnificent gothic church is designed to accommodate 150Click here for a large view of the church floor plan (Opens in new window) laity in addition to the 40 monks.  Since the church is truly the dwelling place of our God, it is fitting that the church be worthy of our Lord and Master by being a place of exquisite beauty. 

            The smaller chapel behind the main altar and extending into the Grand Cloister is dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel where the Carmelites process each evening while chanting the Salve Regina in Our Lady’s honor Our Lady's chapeland pray the Litany of the Blessed Mother.  Tradition holds that Our Lady dwelt in the midst of the Carmelite hermits on Mount Carmel, so it is fitting that the monks’ hermitages or cabins all surround this chapel to the Virgin Mary. 

            The Carmelite Rule prescribes that each monk has “an individual, separate cell” where he is to “meditate on the law of the Lord, day and night”.  The hermitages are designed to be simple and poor, while being made of durable materials and conducive to solitude.  Each monk will have a small garden in the rear of his hermitage where he may work the earth and spend time in prayer outdoors.

            In the front of the church, we find the public entrance where there is a cloister to prepare the soul to enter the church.  The public section of the monastery also includes a small gift shop, extern quarters, the office of the guest master, and speak rooms where the monks may meet with family.  There is a turnstile and large Chapter Houseenclosure doors protecting the cloistered areas of the monastery where the monks dwell.

            On one side of the church, we find an octagonal chapter house surrounded by the infirmary, offices, refectory (or dining room), kitchen, sacristies and preparatory with a library upstairs.  The chapter house is reminiscent of a baptistery, which was traditionally in the octagonal shape.  In the Carmelite tradition, the chapter house is where the monk professes his vows. The theological significance of this, as St. Thomas Aquinas teaches, is that the solemn profession of vows by a monk or nun is a second baptism. Also in the chapter house a monk is clothed in the Holy Habit and the commThe novitiate wingunity assembles each week to discuss the monastic life and observance.

            On the other side of the church is the novitiate wing where the novices or young monks will be formed in Catholic dogma, the Carmelite traditions and the particular manner of life of the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming.  This area of the monastery is distinct and separate, so that the youCross section of naveng religious may be able to devote themselves exclusively to the study of everything Carmelite.

            As you can see, the building conceptual designs are well on their way.  We hope this monastery will endure for a thousand years and be entirely suitable and appropriate for the living of the Carmelite monastic way of life, where monasticism will thrive in all its simplicity and all its glory.

           As professional businessmen, the Directors of the New Mount Carmel Foundation are mindful that every one of us wants to leave his mark in this world.  Some of us choose to build schools, others community centers and still others donate to the missions; each of these contributions is absolutely necessary and critical for the good of souls.  In like manner, some religious are called to teach, some to preach and others to feed the poor, but it is also fitting and indeed very necessary that there be souls, like the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming, who are completely ordered towards the contemplation of God.  Is it not therefore also a wonderful thing that God is calling certain souls, perhaps yourself to use your resources to see a New Mount Carmel established?

            In the last one hundred years, similar projects have only been undertaken a handful of times; this is a unique opportunity to impact the lives of thousands upon thousands, perhaps even millions of souls.  The construction of a gothic monastery requires courage and, yes extensive resources too.  The New Mount Carmel Foundation is seeking magnanimous and generous souls to assist in realizing the Lord’s vision here.  When we simply consider the magnificent monasteries of Europe and the patrons who built these glorious edifices that stand still today, we realize that the patrons of a monastery are people of deep faith.  By their generosity the patrons of old not only provided for us by building monasteries to house monks and nuns to pray for the generations to come, but they also built a worthy dwelling place for our Eucharistic Lord.  It is no wonder that the present monks and nuns now living in the ancient monasteries of Europe continue to pray for the repose of the souls of their founding patrons.  The Monks of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel desire to do likewise! 

           We each must one day breathe forth our last breath and render an account to the Lord.  Wouldn’t it be a wonderful thing if Jesus told us on that day that we built His house and the house of His servants by helping to fund a New Mount Carmel of America?  When we ponder the generations and generations of vocations that shall be fulfilled within the monastery’s walls and the countless Holy Masses that shall be offered within the Church, what would we not give to see the Foundation’s vision realized?

          We hope that God may be calling you to this great work for surely the Lord has indescribable graces and blessings in store for those generous souls who help His religious. 

“Today if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts.” – Psalm. 94. 8.


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Tour the New Mount Carmel - Video 1 - Introduction.


Tour the New Mount Carmel - Video 2 - The Road.


Tour the New Mount Carmel - Video 3 - Manual Labor.


Tour the New Mount Carmel - Video 4 - Prayer.


Tour the New Mount Carmel - Video 5 - The Well.


Tour the New Mount Carmel - Video 6 - Building Spot.


Tour the New Mount Carmel - Video 7 - Hermits.


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