Mount Carmel Spirituality Centre is a home for prayer, retreat, and renewal on 30 acres of rolling hills, farmland, and forest near Stony Plain, Alberta — just 40 minutes from Edmonton.
Opened in July 2024 by the Canadian Carmelite Charitable Society, Mount Carmel Spirituality Centre offers modern retreat facilities in a setting made for quiet. Whether you're coming for a guided retreat, a personal silent retreat, a parish gathering, or a day of reflection, you'll find comfortable accommodation, dedicated meeting and worship space, and land that invites you to slow down.
Three Ways to Experience Mount Carmel
Retreats & Programs
Guided retreats rooted in the Carmelite tradition of prayer, contemplation, and spiritual direction.
Escape to tranquility at Mount Carmel Spirituality Centre (Parkland County, AB). We offer spiritual rejuvenation in a serene and tranquil setting.
MCSC is operated by the Order of Discalced Carmelites.
Private & Group Bookings
Meeting spaces and accommodation for parish groups, faith communities, and organizations seeking a quiet space to gather.
The Retreat Centre has 40 private guest suites, indoor and outdoor gathering spaces, a multi-purpose dining and meeting space, 250 seat chapel and sky bridge that links the campus facilities.
Support the Centre
Mount Carmel exists because of generous donors. Help us keep this place open for everyone who needs it.
In looking at the current and future needs of MCSC, there arise some general categories of support and volunteerism wherein our Friends may wish to serve and assist.
A more detailed list of specific needs and associated tasks are presented here, and allow our supporters to target which area they might want to assist us.
News & Information
- We have a new website!
We've started afresh - again, First, beginning in 2017 and during the construction of the Mount Carmel Spirituality Centre, we developed and grew our original website. Then, the two facilities: MCSC, and Little Flower Monastery (Derouche, B.C.) were combined into one website. Now, we're stepping out in faith with our own, brand new website...and we…