"... work to be done, prayers to be said and souls to be saved ..."

A poetic and touching description of a day in the life a Carmelite community in Wyoming.

Many do not know there is a monastery in Wyoming where the Carmelite life is kept alive in a tradition at least a thousand years old, but this is that hidden life of prayer and penance. The Carmelite life is ultimately one of praise of the Lord, for the Carmelite desires nothing other than that God and His Immaculate Mother might be more praised. Take heart in the prayers of Wyoming’s Carmelite monks for they are the prayer warriors. Night and day this ancient life of loving praise continues behind the monastery walls, a wellspring of peace and grace for the entire Church and its many labors. At last, Wyoming has her monks.

They sound like a pretty solid community!

In a solitary monastery under the Rocky Mountains in northern Wyoming, the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming seek to perpetuate the charism of the Blessed Virgin Mary, living the Marian life as prescribed by the primitive Carmelite Rule and the ancient monastic observance. This new monastery of contemplative monks lives a life of faithful orthodoxy to the Magisterium, where joy and peace abound in a manly, agrarian way of life. The Carmelite Monks wear the Holy Habit faithfully, which includes the brown Carmelite scapular and white mantle of our Lady of Mount Carmel. These young Roman Catholic monks live a full, reverent, and traditional Carmelite liturgical life, with the Divine Office and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass being prayed in Latin with Gregorian Chant.