Carmel of Our Lady of Divine Providence, Lake Elmo, United States

What it is

Cloistered Discalced Carmelite nuns in a monastery built about seventy years ago at Lake Elmo, east of St. Paul, Minnesota; the community numbered fifteen in May 2025, before some of its nuns left to found a new Carmel in Texas.

What it needs

To care for aging and infirm sisters inside the cloister, the nuns renovated their infirmary and built an addition with a visitors' room, accessible entrance and workrooms. The work, begun in April 2024, was blessed on 31 December 2024 and is being paid off invoice by invoice; landscaping and fitting-out remain.

Before you act. The shortfall figure dates from May 2025 and may since have been met. There is no online giving page. Several nuns left Lake Elmo in late 2025 for the new foundation in the Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas.

Sources

Last checked 9 November 2026. Parts of this entry could not be fully confirmed; see the note above. Responsible body: Carmel of Our Lady of Divine Providence, 8251 Mount Carmel Road, Lake Elmo, MN 55042 (gifts by post or delivered by hand).

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