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Donate
Thank you for considering supporting our monastery.
We rely on God’s Providence acting through generous hearts!
Ways to Make Your Donation
Give your gift spiritually
We would be very blessed if you were to keep our community in your prayers. Please especially pray for those whom God is calling to our way of life.
Give your gift materially
We gratefully accept material donations. For example, we greatly appreciate donations of food (we perpetually fast from meat, except fish and chicken), books, donations of time for the upkeep and improvements to our grounds, etc..
Give your gift monetarily
Please mail your donation to:
Carmel of Port Tobacco
5678 Mount Carmel Road
La Plata, MD 20646-3625
Please make checks payable to: Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Maryland
“Always prefer the one who tries your patience, who tests your virtue.”
Online Donations
All online donations
via Zelle (mobile bank app), Credit Card, or Paypal-Venmo
would be gratefully accepted
contact@carmelofporttobacco.com
Click HERE for video on how to set up Zelle
Receipts
The Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Maryland, Inc. are a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the United States. We are able to issue tax receipts for monetary donations in the United States, and for donations made by check in Canada.
Upon receipt of your donation, we will mail an acknowledgment of your donation and add you to our newsletter mailing list. Tax receipts for donations given in the United States will only be issued for donations of $250 or more. Please contact us via our online form here, if you need a tax receipt outside of these circumstances.
PayPal Giving Fund Charity
If you wish to donate directly to our approved PayPal Giving Fund charity (instead of a general donation – button above), please click HERE. PayPal, Inc. will email you a PayPal Giving Fund tax receipt.
Charitable Bequests
When you are making your will and thinking about charitable bequests, have you ever thought about including the Carmel of Port Tobacco? This would help us greatly over the years to come to provide for the needs of our growing community. We can firmly assure you that we will pray for you and for all of your loved ones.
Our legal title is:
Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Maryland, Inc.
5678 Mt. Carmel Road
La Plata, Maryland 20646-3625
Need help creating a Catholic will? Click here
May God bless you for your generosity!
Supporters
Restorers of Mount Carmel
You can become a member of the Restorers and help support the sisters while they support the world with prayer. Members benefit by sharing in all the Masses offered by the Chaplain on pilgrimages.
Secular Order of Carmel
Once referred to as The Third Order, the Secular Order of Carmel is made up of lay people who wish to participate in Carmelite spirituality as married and single Catholics. They have a structured community that meets monthly, follows the Carmelite Rule according to their state in life, has its own Constitutions, and makes promises instead of vows.
The Carmel of Port Tobacco is blessed to have two groups of Seculars. The Community of Saint Joseph meets here on the third Sunday of the month and the Community of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on the Saturday preceding. Both groups begin with Mass at 8:00 a.m., followed by prayer, breakfast, talks and instructions.
The members of our Secular groups support us generously, both financially and by giving witness to the universal appeal of Carmelite spirituality. New members are most welcome.
Contact:
Our Lady of Mount Carmel – Port Tobacco - Saturday meeting day
Kathy Iacone | Kaiacone@aol.com | 301-259-2517
St. Joseph – Port Tobacco - Sunday meeting day
George Cronin | gcroninsr@gmail.com |
For those who live outside the area, find other OCDS (Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites) communities in the Washington Province (133 communities in the Eastern Seaboard)
One Hundred Women of Carmel
One Hundred Women of Carmel gathers women who feel drawn to a quiet, steady life of prayer, simplicity, and service within the Carmelite tradition.
Begun as a way to tap into a volunteer pool, One Women of Carmel raises funds for our monastery through creative initiatives. More recently, they have had great success with Teas at Brent’s Landing, the site of the Pier where our first nuns ended their voyage from Europe in 1790. The Pier and Brent House are no longer standing, but the property's current owners, Sherri and Larry Sanders, graciously host the annual event in their modern home on the water.
As a member of One Hundred Women of Carmel, I understand that there are no formal meetings. I am available to help where and when I can at events benefiting the Carmelite Monastery. My phone number and address are below. Please keep me informed of the needs of the sisters and the benefits being planned during the coming year. If I am unable to meet my pledge in the coming year, I still want to give in-kind services (i.e., help with mailings, contacting sponsors, running errands, etc.)
Membership in One Women of Carmel requires only an annual fee of – you guessed it – $100.
You can pay by credit card with this LINK
or QR code:
Requesting a Mass to be Celebrated
We do not take Mass requests, but suggest that you visit this webpage (Click here) to ask our Carmelite Friars in Brighton, MA, to celebrate Mass(es) for your intentions.