Welcome to Our Lady of Mount Carmel  |     home                                                    Greetings! As a native New Englander who has also served in ministries in the Province of Quebec, I am familiar with cities and towns where multiple “national” Catholic parishes have recalled a time when Catholics would distinguish themselves from each other by their ethnic origins. It was never so at Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Here, in the winter of 1858-59, a community of mainly Irish and French Canadian immigrants came together and literally pulled together to move a Quaker meeting house ten miles overland from Starksboro, Vermont, and to resettle it here as their new church. To this day, stained glass windows tell the story, with Saint Patrick and Saint-Jean-Baptiste facing each other across the small nave, and with memorial markers like these: Don de Louis Desautels et de Thomas Bacon; Gift of the Raftery Family; and even Gift of Jean Mathias St. Pierre and his son. Over the nearly century and a half that the church has been here, all have been welcomed at Our Lady of Mount Carmel—successive immigrant groups and, more recently, young families and individuals as well as retired couples relocating to Charlotte from other parts of the country. We cordially invite you, too, to come and visit and perhaps to stay. All Are Welcome in this Place!