Holy Communion is the Carmelite's love-feast with her Divine Bridegroom. Here she comes to know personally His great love for her. This gift of self is the basis of her prayer, penance, and her perennial joy. Any difficulties she may encounter are swallowed up like a drop of water in the ocean. Seven times during the day and at midnight the Sisters return to the Chapel to chant the Divine Praises.
Prayer is primary, it is their apostolate, and it has no boundaries in space or time.
The Divine Office is chanted in Gregorian chant-in English on ordinary days, in Latin on the most solemn feasts. Such intense application to prayer is nourished by time for spiritual reading and for the study of Holy Scripture and Theology. To foster and sustain this recollection each Sister has her private adoration beforee the Blessed Sacrament and personal visits to Our Lord in the tabernacle throughout the day. The frequency, the centrality, the importance given to the hours of prayer show its pivotal position. It is interrupted with little periods of work, not vice versa.