The Congregation of the Apostolic Carmel Sri Lanka

Experience God’s love and grace in a welcoming community where faith grows, hope thrives, and everyone is cherished.

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What we Are

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.

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Seeking the Divine..

in Prayer
in Joyful Communion
Among People
Candidates
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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.

Postulants
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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.

Novices
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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.

Sisters
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More than 250 of our sisters serve the people all over the island according to God’s way.

Message

Message from Provincial Superior

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.

Rev. Sr. Nilanthi A.C.

Our Mission

Touched by the Divine, Reach out to all with Compassion

Apostolate of Education

Social Apostolate

Legacy

Our Legacy

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.

History

Foundress

Our Charism

God Calls

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.

Candidature

Postulancy

Novitiate

Juniorate

God's Elect

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.

Our Inspirations

(Provincials of the past)

Mother Innocence A.C.

Referee: 1943 -1948
Delegate of the Superior General
1954 -1960

Sr. M. Leila AC.

Referee: 1948 – 1953

Mother Ruth A.C.

Delegate of the Superior General : 1960 – 1966
Regional Superior : 1966 – 1967

Mother Euphemia A.C.

Regional Superior: 1967 – 1968

Sr. M. Maude AC.

Regional Superior: 1969 – 1971
Pro-Provincial Superior: 1971 – 1974
Provincial Superior: 1983 – 1989

Sr. M. Innocentia AC.

1st Provincial Superior: 1974 – 1980

Sr. M. Inisia AC.

Provincial Superior: 1980 – 1983

Sr. M. Cinthia AC.

Provincial Superior: 1989 – 1995

Sr. M. Dilecta AC.

Provincial Superior: 1995 – 2001

Sr. M. Sunitha AC.

Provincial Superior: 2001 – 2007
Provincial Superior: 2013 – 2016

Sr. M. Carmella A.C.

Provincial Superior: 2007 – 2013

Sr. M. Rubika AC.

Provincial Superior: 2016 – 2019

Sr. Marie Lourdes A.C.

Provincial Superior: 2019-2022

Our Shepherdesses

Provincial and the team

Rev. Sr. Nilanthi A.C.

Provincial Superior

Rev. Sr. Sunitha A.C.

1st Councillor

Rev. Sr. Thusika A.C.

2nd Councillor

Rev. Sr. Nimalka A.C.

3rd Councillor

Rev. Sr. Pradeepa A.C.

4th Councillor

Rev. Sr. Nimalapriya A.C.

Rev. Sr. Nimalapriya A.C.

Rev. Sr. Chrishmila A.C.

Provincial Bursar

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