The Spiritual Obligation of the Hermits

First of all, we must know that the Carmelite in the dessert is not considered as a religious who has already aquired monastic perfection. Rather, the contrary, we must then under take the task of our perfection with thorough and incessant labor in order to achieve the fullness of our exalted vocation.

Blessed. Francisco Palau, founder of the 

Brothers and Sisters Hermits of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Brothers as you step inside the monastery begins your journey of formation, you must know that Carmel is prophetic in the sence we become  witnesses of the Divine Life within us as the Prophet Elijah was aware of it  first and become a witness of the living God. Thus Brothers in the First Stage: That is POSTULANCY in the first two months more or less of hermit life, we should exercise with all diligence " in self-knowledge and also in conrinuous compuntcion, in meditation on sin and the passion of Christ, in Divine Psalmody; he is to endeavor  " to seclude himself in his own cell with great care, to occupy himself excessively absorbed, unless used as a means of relaxing the soul. Because of this we prepare ourselves  before the Divine encounter with God.

Our Holy Father the Prophet Elijah before his encounter with God has to first experience fully the depths of his weakness and helplessness as part of the purification process. In this two months of being alone with God as mentioned above, let our  weakness draws God to us just as a helpless infant draws attention of all adults around him, The parents run to the child most in need. All the practices and others, in which you are to occupy yourselves, will be protected and assured of success carried out as they are with fidelity and openness towards the superior.