Like our spiritual ancestors in the Teresian Carmelite tradition, our ideal of communal life is relatively small. Currently, our 16 sisters come from all parts of North America, from a variety of racial and ethnic groups, and from a wide spectrum of educational and occupational backgrounds. 

Our founder gifted us with the contemplative and missionary spirit of Saint Thérèse. We are united daily in our Eucharistic celebration of Jesus Christ, alive and risen, in the people of God with whom we serve and in the priests and ministers for whom we pray. We seek to become what we are, members of Christ who channel our communal energy through our personal embrace of the baptismal vows extended to their fullest in poverty, chastity, and obedience. Our goal is to be prophetic witnesses in the biblical spirit of Elijah on Mount Carmel, to give birth to Christ in our daily human existence in the spirit of Mary of Nazareth, the first Christ-bearer in human history, to be contemplatives in the spirit of our great reformers Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross, and to spread the Gospel by building the kingdom of God on earth according to the “way” of Thérèse, the Little Flower.