Les Chemins du Carmel

I met Hélène in Paris in 1998. For me, she had come from a mythical place’ a Carmelite convent, where she had spent 14 years. Why had she left? How is it that today young women still decide to live shut up for life for the love of God? The Carmelite convent at Niort opens up its doors (‘) Four Carmelite nuns talk freely about their vocation, their joys and the constraints of living under the Rule of the Order. At the same time, Hélène recalls her past as a Carmelite. Her analysis of this extreme existence is lucid and bears no trace of bitterness” (Marianne Rigaud)