What we are is an overflow of our intimacy with the Divine. We seek to experience the All sufficing love of God as our first priority. Impelled by His love, we reach out to others, to share our uniquely treasured experience of God through various ministries.
We are Carmelites who contemplate the Divine within. And we are Apostolic, for our contemplative lives bring forth the light of the mission burning out our lives in the oil of the Divine love, for the glory of God.
Those who aspire to follow the AC can join as candidates of the Apostolic Carmel, Way of Life, in response to God’s call. They are exposed to religious life during this year.
The next step in the formation of the Apostolic Carmel takes us to the postulancy. As candidates enter the postulancy, they renounce their worldly wealth for divine wealth.
Sisters who pronounce their first vows renew it every year. For five years they are sent to different communities for further experience of religious life and mission and for higher education.
More than 250 of our sisters serve the people all over the island according to God’s way.
We are Apostolic Carmel Sisters of Sri Lanka Province. We launch this website to introduce to you who we are, who is our foundress, Our Charism, our Motto and our way of life. Also, how we reach out to you through our Mission. We wish to tell you about our own sisters, our Apostolic Carmel Associates, Carmel Blossoms, our staff, students and their loved ones. We like share with you how our past pupils serve Humanity globally.
We Welcome your valuable suggestions and comments
May the Mother of Carmel guide you and lead you to Jesus and may Jesus the only one who loves you and me unconditionally be our source of Joy always.
Legacy is a gift from the past that helps create a better future. Legacy of the Apostolic Carmel is that gift our foundress Mother Veronica handed down to her daughters, passed on for 150 years, a way to experience the All Sufficing Love of God and to share that love with all through education and other works of love.
Jesus looked around and saw them following.
“What do you want?”
He asked them.
They replied,
“Rabbi where do you stay?”
He said,
“Come and See”
There are four years of intense preparation before one starts living the A.C. Way of life, which is called Initial Formation. After the Initial Formation, the Apostolic Carmel habit is offered to those who desire to follow this way of life further. Once, joined to the A.C. Family, there are five more years of preparations before the final commitment. And then we become fully-fledged Apostolic Carmel sisters in the loving family of A.C.
What we are is an overflow of our intimacy with the Divine. We seek to experience the All sufficing love of God as our first priority. Impelled by His love, we reach out to others, to share our uniquely treasured experience of God through various ministries.
We are Carmelites who contemplate the Divine within. And we are Apostolic, for our contemplative lives bring forth the light of the mission burning out our lives in the oil of the Divine love, for the glory of God.
Referee: 1943 -1948
Delegate of the Superior General
1954 -1960
Referee: 1948 – 1953
Delegate of the Superior General : 1960 – 1966
Regional Superior : 1966 – 1967
Regional Superior: 1967 – 1968
Regional Superior: 1969 – 1971
Pro-Provincial Superior: 1971 – 1974
Provincial Superior: 1983 – 1989
1st Provincial Superior: 1974 – 1980
Provincial Superior: 1980 – 1983
Provincial Superior: 1989 – 1995
Provincial Superior: 1995 – 2001
Provincial Superior: 2001 – 2007
Provincial Superior: 2013 – 2016
Provincial Superior: 2007 – 2013
Provincial Superior: 2016 – 2019
Provincial Superior: 2019-2022
Provincial Superior
1st Councillor
2nd Councillor
3rd Councillor
4th Councillor
Rev. Sr. Nimalapriya A.C.
Provincial Bursar
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