Flos Carmeli

Our Lady of Mount Carmel - House of Prayer in Napa, CA

Flower of Carmel

“Our Lady of Mount Carmel” | House of Prayer, Napa | Photo by C. Weeks

In our community and in most of the Lay Carmelite communities in our province, the Flos Carmeli hymn is sung at the close of Community meetings and Days of Recollection. It is also chanted after Holy Mass on Carmelite feast days when our Community attends as a group.

Flos Carmeli Prayer

Flos Carmeli,
vitis florigera,
splendor caeli,
virgo puerpera
singularis.

Mater mitis
sed viri nescia
Carmelitis
esto propitia
stella maris.

About this hymn

Flos Carmeli (Latin, “Flower of Carmel”) is a Marian Catholic hymn and prayer honoring Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

In the Carmelite Rite of the Mass, this hymn was the sequence for the Feast of Saint Simon Stock (c. 1165-1265), and since 1663, for the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on 16 July throughout the Latin liturgical rites. Said to have been written by Saint Simon Stock himself, the prayer is taken from the first two stanzas of the hymn. [Source: Wikipedia]