Devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel is worldwide, and most Catholics are familiar with the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, also known as the Brown Scapular. Mary appeared to St. Simon Stock on July 16, 1251, and gave him the scapular  with the following words, which are preserved  in a fourteenth century narrative : “This will be for you and for all Carmelites the privilege, that he who dies in this will not suffer eternal fire.” The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel  was instituted for the Carmelites in 1332, and extended to the whole Church by Benedict XIII in 1726 . Today is also the principal feast day of the Carmelite Order.

Novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel

O Blessed Lady of Mount Carmel, grant that we may share in all the prayers and penances  of your holy cloistered daughters of the Carmelite Order. Bless their labors and pray that they may be a source of spiritual strength to all of us who struggle in the world outside their peaceful walls.

O Mary. who entered the world free from stain, obtain for me from God that I may pass out of it free from sin. Amen