Feast Day Mass & BBQ

July 16, 2022 is the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel! Join us RAIN OR SHINE under the big tent. Join us as we celebrate the Catholic feast of our patroness, Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Join us for Mass at 5:00 p.m. and immediately following, our annual BBQ featuring food trucks (ice cream, empanadas and more) with music. The BBQ is FREE and is BYOB.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, or Virgin of Carmel, is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role as patroness of the Carmelite Order, particularly within the Catholic Church. The first Carmelites were Christian hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land during the late 12th and early to mid-13th century. They built in the midst of their hermitages a chapel which they dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, whom they conceived of in chivalric terms as the “Lady of the place.” Our Lady of Mount Carmel was adopted in the 19th century as the patron saint of Chile.

Since the 15th century, popular devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel has centered on the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, also known as the Brown Scapular. Traditionally, Mary is said to have given the Scapular to an early Carmelite named Saint Simon Stock (1165-1265). The liturgical feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is celebrated on 16 July.