PilgrimstaysSadbhavana Carmelite Convent @ Rajajinagar: Neat, clean and well-maintained accommodation at Rajajinagar in Bangalore is offered at Sadbhavana. The rooms offer all modern amenities. Sadbhavana is the provincial headquarters of the Discalced Carmelite Order (OCD). Rajajinagar is a very busy suburb of Bangalore- a place as tranquil and spacious as Sadbhavana would make your stay comfortable and indeed very pleasant. The location is on the main arterial road of Rajajinagar, hence access to all modes of transport adds to the convenience of the place.
Sadbhavana Carmelite Convent @ Rajajinagar: Neat, clean and well-maintained accommodation at Rajajinagar in Bangalore is offered at Sadbhavana
The rooms offer all modern amenities
Sadbhavana is the provincial headquarters of the Discalced Carmelite Order (OCD)
Rajajinagar is a very busy suburb of Bangalore- a place as tranquil and spacious as Sadbhavana would make your stay comfortable and indeed very pleasant
The convent chapel — maintained in the silence and simplicity characteristic of Carmelite aesthetics — is the heart of the Sadbhavana community. The combination of the Blessed Sacrament, the Carmelite icon of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and the quality of sustained silence creates an environment of particular contemplative depth.
The Carmelite Sisters' primary offering to the Church is their prayer — the hours of contemplative prayer, the Divine Office, the lectio divina, the mental prayer (known as oración mental in the Teresian tradition) that St Teresa of Avila reformulated and St John of the Cross systematised. This prayer is offered for the whole Church and the whole city of Bangalore.
Rajajinagar is one of Bangalore's most established residential areas — primarily a middle-class neighbourhood with Catholic schools, churches, and community institutions. The Sadbhavana Carmelite community is part of the texture of this neighbourhood's Catholic life.
The Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is one of the most widely worn Catholic devotional objects in the world. The Carmelite sisters at Sadbhavana continue the tradition of scapular devotion and enrollment — connecting the Bangalore Catholic community to one of the most ancient Marian devotional traditions.
St Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) is one of the greatest spiritual writers in the Christian tradition — her Interior Castle and Way of Perfection describe the contemplative life with a psychological depth and practical wisdom unmatched in Catholic spirituality. The Sadbhavana Carmelite community inherits and transmits her teaching.
St Teresa of Avila was told by her confessor that her prayer was dangerous and possibly diabolical. She was investigated by the Inquisition. She endured decades of uncertainty about whether her experiences of God were real. She wrote anyway: The soul which gives itself to prayer is like a garden in which God himself takes pleasure. She founded 17 reformed Carmelite convents. She was declared a Doctor of the Church in 1970 — the first woman Doctor of the Catholic Church. The Sadbhavana Carmelites in Bangalore pray in her tradition. That tradition has survived the Inquisition. It will survive Bangalore's traffic.
“But I have calmed and quieted myself, I am like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child I am content.”
Read in full on Bible Gateway →Neat, clean and well-maintained accommodation at Rajajinagar in Bangalore is offered at Sadbhavana Carmelite Convent. The rooms offer all modern amenities. Sadbhavana is the provincial headquarters of the Discalced Carmelite Order (OCD).
Rajajinagar is a very busy suburb of Bangalore — a place as tranquil and spacious as Sadbhavana would make your stay comfortable and indeed very pleasant. The location is on the main arterial road of Rajajinagar, hence access to all modes of transport adds to the convenience of the place.
