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McCrery Architects Design New Monastery for Carmelites of Wyoming (coffee anyone?)
New Liturgical Movement ^ | 5/18/2010

Posted on 05/18/2010 5:32:11 PM PDT by markomalley

The Carmelites of Wyoming are looking to expand their present facilities, and McCrery Architects have come up an ambitious design for the Carmel.







James McCrery, the architect, offers this statement:
The vision for the New Carmel is for an authentically Catholic, Carmelite Monastery that embraces the French tradition of gothic architecture. This is the architecture that the Catholic Church truly owns! It developed in the 13th century in response to the strong growth of monastic life at that time. 800 years later, in this 21st century of Our Lord, these Holy Monks live a rich monastic life that is a vital indication of the strong growth of young religious vocations in the Church today. The Monks are bursting at the seams in their current location – a dwelling that limits their ability to properly live the Carmelite Rule and Constitution. It is a profound honor to labor on their behalf as they labor on behalf of the entire Church.

Some of the important design considerations for the monastery are:

- The New Carmel of America Monastery design will take its form and order from the very central event in the Church: The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass;

- All of the monastic buildings will be arrayed with respect to the High Altar and to the Main Chapel;

- Visitors to the New Carmel will be richly rewarded with glimpses of the prayerful labors of the Carmelite Monks chanting in the choir of the Magnificent Chapel;

- The Chapel will be arranged so as to be filled with the sung prayers, the sung Liturgy of the Hours, and the Sung Masses. Imagine the sounds of chanting Monks’ prayers lifted to Heaven in this new Chapel!

For further information see the New Mount Carmel Foundation website.



TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; History; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: architects; carmelite; carmelites; mccrery; wyoming
So I guess sales for Mystic Monk Coffee are way up!
1 posted on 05/18/2010 5:32:11 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Coffee? I thought Carmelites they made candy.


2 posted on 05/18/2010 5:34:42 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (Sometimes I like nuts. That's why I am here.)
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To: markomalley

What does this have to do with coffee?


3 posted on 05/18/2010 5:34:49 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: ThomasThomas

Are there enough young clerics there to make the project worthwhile?


4 posted on 05/18/2010 5:36:43 PM PDT by MSF BU (++)
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To: markomalley

Why don’t they just model their monastery after the ones described in the Bible?


5 posted on 05/18/2010 5:36:46 PM PDT by Anti-Utopian ("Come, let's away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds I' th' cage." -King Lear [V,iii,6-8])
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To: markomalley

Must be nice to have more money than you know what to do with,,,,,, maybe helping the poor first?


6 posted on 05/18/2010 5:37:13 PM PDT by 2aberro
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To: Red_Devil 232
What does this have to do with coffee?

The Wyoming Carmelites are the ones who roast Mystic Monk

7 posted on 05/18/2010 5:45:23 PM PDT by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: 2aberro
Must be nice to have more money than you know what to do with,,,,,, maybe helping the poor first

Exactly. WWJD?

8 posted on 05/18/2010 5:53:27 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: Talisker

WWJD - What Would Judas Do? Er, he was the one who was supposedly out there spending the disciples’ money on helping the “poor.”

What Jesus would do is preach the Gospel to the poor, which is what he did and is exactly what these monks are doing.

Beauty is also a message and a preaching, btw. The great Cathedrals were not built for the rich, who already had palaces, but for the poor, who came into them and were dazzled with what looked like a vision of Heaven and a refuge for them.


9 posted on 05/18/2010 6:00:04 PM PDT by livius
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To: 2aberro

I know two people who give these monks $5.00 to $10.00 per month because they aren’t well off but they believe in the monks’ work. The monks don’t have “more money than they know what to do with.”

They are doing what the people who gave the money to them wanted: build a beautiful monastery.


10 posted on 05/18/2010 6:04:17 PM PDT by livius
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To: Anti-Utopian

It will be somewhat similar to the Temple inside the church when you think about it. That’s good enough.


11 posted on 05/18/2010 6:11:11 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
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To: 2aberro
As Jesus said, "The poor will be with us always".

The Carmelites serve the people of God by praying constantly for their requests and needs. Their monastery is a place for anyone to go to pray, and feel closer to God, in that lovely location, and I'm sure many will make that journey, as some do now to the monks' present location.

Having better facilities for making their coffee would be an excellent thing, too.;o)

12 posted on 05/18/2010 6:43:47 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: markomalley

Not an energy efficient design for Wyoming winters, or efficient use of materials, all those perimeter cells. Give them common walls.


13 posted on 05/18/2010 6:53:22 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: heartwood
Not an energy efficient design for Wyoming winters, or efficient use of materials, all those perimeter cells. Give them common walls.

Yeah, but it is part of their spirituality (to allow them to do do the "hermit" thing)

The Carmelite Rule states "Let each one remain in his cell, or near it, meditating day and night on the law of the Lord and keeping vigil in prayer, unless occupied with other lawful duties." The cell is also the place where the hermit sleeps and takes his meals alone, except on Sundays and special days where the hermits eat in a common refectory.

(the above is from another Carmelite monastery)

14 posted on 05/18/2010 6:58:10 PM PDT by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: Red_Devil 232
Good stuff!
15 posted on 05/18/2010 6:59:53 PM PDT by Campion
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To: heartwood

I wouldn’t expect that those perimeter cells will be especially energy-inefficient, because I wouldn’t expect them to be very warm, except in the summer.


16 posted on 05/18/2010 7:01:31 PM PDT by Campion
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To: Anti-Utopian
Why don’t they just model their monastery after the ones described in the Bible?

Christian monasticism is a development of the eremitical (hermit-like) practice of some of the prophets (Elijah and John the Baptist are two good examples) and of Christ himself, during his 40 days in the desert. Hermits first built cells or huts (or moved into caves) to live in in the desert, then they started living in community (for safety, among other reasons).

In fact, the Carmelites consider Elijah to be their founder, and take their name from Mt. Carmel in the Holy Land.

17 posted on 05/18/2010 7:05:41 PM PDT by Campion
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To: markomalley

I don’t think they can raise enough money with coffee. They need to start printing up indulgences. They could even distribute them by e-mail and Facebook!


18 posted on 05/19/2010 12:01:18 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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To: Campion

Elijah founded it? Interesting.

As a child, I was so disappointed when we went to the Carmel mission, founded by Junipero Serra, in Carmel, California. There was no candy. None.


19 posted on 05/19/2010 10:27:30 AM PDT by married21
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