With your generous response to the 2021 Cornerstone of Giving appeal we have received well over $100,000 towards beginning the design phase!

The Holy Season of Lent is offered to us as a spring time of God’s grace and as a season to renew ourselves in the experience of God’s merciful love – given in the form of prevenient grace and in the form of pardon and forgiveness. It is a time to experience and receive God’s compassion and merciful love, and a season to share this love with others.

At the beginning of her reform of the Carmelites, St Teresa of Jesus was asked by the nuns of her first foundation – the monastery St Joseph in Avila – to teach them how to pray. In her response, she chose the spirit of Lent as her guide; she chose the Gospel of Mathew Chapter 6.