Carmelite Nuns Chased Out of Brooklyn

[BugsyPal]

Originally Posted by prospectheightsresident

Hey they need to be where the people are and where they can do the most good

You obviously do not know difference between sisters and brothers versus nuns and monks.

Those Carmelites as a cloistered order were doing "most good" for people through prayer.

https://cloisteredlife.com/carmelites

[BugsyPal]

Originally Posted by bluedog2

Can't understand why nuns who vow a life of cloistered poverty, prayer, silence and contemplation would ever have wanted to be anywhere in NYC to begin with. I mean it just makes no sense at all.They belong out in the boonies.Good that they finally realized how out of place they were.

You don't know what you're talking about.

Until rather recently huge parts of Brooklyn were quiet almost suburban if not rural areas. It has only been within past few decades between gentrification, non stop construction and rest of it that things changed.


First monastery for these Carmelites was built in 1920 at 715 St. Johns Place, corner of Bedford Avenue which was a vastly different area then than what it has become now.

https://www.brownstoner.com/architec...ng-of-the-300/

https://cloisteredlife.com/directory/brooklyn

[prospectheightsresident]

Originally Posted by Lillie767

I was not aware that they were an outreach order. I thought they were cloistered and did not interact with the outside community.

Originally Posted by BugsyPal

You obviously do not know difference between sisters and brothers versus nuns and monks.

Those Carmelites as a cloistered order were doing "most good" for people through prayer.

https://cloisteredlife.com/carmelites

I'm tracking that you do have Carmelite orders that do conduct community outreach and ministry:

Broadcasting is just one of many ways that Carmelites seek to preach and to be Good News in today's society.

Members of the Carmelite and Discalced Carmelite Orders work, live, and pray together to make up the wider ‘Carmelite Family’, which seeks the face of the Living God in parishes, prisons, university chaplaincies, retreat centres, hospitals, workplaces, media outlets, schools, and through many other forms of ministry.

https://www.carmelite.org/family/voc...0of%20ministry.

That one brother was in the radio studio ministering. Hard to do that staying cloistered in a sanctum. City life, thus, seems to give these folks more opportunities to engage