Carmelites
Mount Carmel order
Carmelites are members of a Roman Catholic religious order founded in the 12th century on Mount Carmel in Palestine.
The order emphasizes contemplative prayer and mystical spirituality.
Carmelite nuns and friars follow rules of poverty and solitude.
The order produced influential mystics including Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross.
She entered the Carmelite convent at nineteen.
Old Testament prophet
Mendicant religious order members
- nunsFemale religious monastics
- contemplativesThose practicing sustained reflection
- monasticsReligious community members
- mendicantsThose who live by begging
cloistered · vowed · brothers · sisters · novices · professed · tertiaries · oblates
Sustained reflective attention
- mysticismPursuit of divine union
- prayerAddress to deity
- silenceTotal lack of sound
- solitudeState of being alone
asceticism · dark night · divine union · meditation · recollection · mortification · detachment
Ignatian Catholic religious order
- DominicansPreaching religious order members
- FranciscansCatholic mendicant religious order
- AugustiniansOrder following Augustine's rule
- VincentiansCitizens of Caribbean nation
John of the Cross
Spanish mystic and reformer
Elijah
Old Testament prophet
friars
Mendicant religious order members
- nunsFemale religious monastics
- contemplativesThose practicing sustained reflection
- monasticsReligious community members
mendicants · cloistered · vowed · brothers · sisters · novices · professed · tertiaries · oblates · postulants
contemplation
Sustained reflective attention
solitude · asceticism · dark night · divine union · meditation · recollection · mortification · detachment
Jesuits
Ignatian Catholic religious order
- DominicansPreaching religious order members
- FranciscansCatholic mendicant religious order
- AugustiniansOrder following Augustine's rule
OCD
Compulsive repetition disorder
CarmelitesJesuits
Ignatian Catholic religious order
Benedictines · Trappists · Franciscans · Dominicans · Augustinians
Carmeliteslaity
Non-ordained church members
laypeople · secularists · atheists · non-religious · materialists