South Dakota Carmelite Nuns will build a new chapel dedicated to the Holy Face of Jesus . The purpose of this devotion is to make reparation for blasphemy against the first three commandments: denial of God, profanation of the Holy Name of God, and the non-observance of Sundays and Holy Days.
The Monastery of Our Mother of Mercy and St. Joseph
The Church recognizes the magnificent gift that contemplative Sisters give the world. “The community of the monastery of nuns, placed as a city on the mountain top and a light on the lampstand, even in the simplicity of its life, visibly depicts the goal towards which the whole ecclesial community walks, ardent in action and dedicated to contemplation, it advances along the paths of time with eyes fixed on the future recapitulation of everything in Christ.” (Cor Orans) When Jesus spoke to His disciples about the need to evangelize, He told them, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the Master of the harvest to send out laborers for His harvest.” (Matthew 9:37) The call to pray for the harvest and its laborers, the priests, is at the heart of Carmelite life. The Carmelite Nuns of the Monastery of Our Mother of Mercy and St. Joseph embrace the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience, hidden within a silent cloister, to pray for the apostolic and …