Iceland is famous for being a place where extreme contradictions are combined in Harmony, where active volcanoes and frozen glaciers. Again, the qualities that have a wild and beautiful place of Iceland lead to a single karmelite community to regulate and fight to live in Hafnarfjordi.
Hafnarfjordur’s non-fertilized carmelite nuns hold the only thoughtful monastery of Iceland. Most of Poland, with the youngest postulant from Canada. Most of the Catholics in Iceland are foreign, and 17 priests that make up less than 1% of the society and a diocese of the relatives of a diocese of their native Iceland.
“This is a fairly young church society,” he said, Miriam, the sister of the Catholic Church in Iceland. “It is difficult to consider local professions in a reality, especially with faithfulness, obedience, obedience and poverty, obedience and poverty, and the independent generation of the Vikings.”
A small society in Hafnarfjordur, consisting of three siblings, three sisters, who responded to the spirituality of the karmists, were met with the support of the native Iceland.
“This is like ‘righteous’, which is the’ righteous’, which is said to be a transaction of our monastery with God, and the rarely monastery, and the island is still ‘” “” “Mariam”.
Although the life in Iceland – is difficult to grow fruit trees without greenhouse, it is always difficult for newcomers, and pressures are built in the Carmelite Society.
“We have tried to eliminate the most relevant shortcomings for 41 years of our mission in Iceland,” said Hair Miriam.
Many materials should be brought from abroad in Iceland. This is the main thing for the purchase of society. It also includes labor and construction. While sisters themselves try to do the most, it is no longer possible for some. “We have been affected by our health before we have influenced our health and we feel our strength is reduced,” said Miriam.
The unique environment of Iceland affects the health of sisters. Sunlight is a scarce in Iceland throughout the year that can lead to vitamins. A carmelite sister in his 30s and prepared fragile bones, as he broke his leg. In addition, two sisters approaching the 70s have joint-related diseases and require medical care.
This is painful in an ancient monastery built 80 years ago, and painfully found that the wheelchair is intensified in favorable facilities.
“The construction costs in Iceland is so high that the planned building is the cheapest and most simple, we will not be able to meet with them,” he said. “We have been fighting for four years, but we are not able to collect half of the necessary amount.”
Recently, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes sharpened the situation. In 2021, a volcanic system asleep in the Reykjanes Peninsula, woke up after my 800-year-old, causing a number of eruptions. In January 2024, the fractures in the ground swallowed a worker, never found. In November 2024, a volcano erupted seventh times a fracture on the flowing magma and earth widespread destruction.
Fiery Magma’s flow, destroyed the houses and the carmelite monastery collapsed the roads in Grindavik about half an hour. Grindavik eruptions divide the earth in many places large fractures. By January, the city was also evacuated and the authorities recommended this No journey should happen to the area.
The Carmelite Monastery 2021 was a few thousand earthquakes in the year before eruption. According to Miriam, the earthquakes, which prevented about 10 eruptions, remained the continued problem. Religious statues and something that could fall should be placed on the ground. The disaster in the neighboring Grindavik, despite the fact that this monastery does not hurt directly, has tied the sun with black smoke and filled the air with volcanic gases that complicate the breathtaking in the monastery. Earthquakes also stressed that the monastery needs a reliable update in infrastructure.
“The functionality of the building has only been improved. The monastery building has the ability to adapt and expand the habitat,” said Hair Miriam.
In 1939, there is no residence for a plumbing system and physical disabled, the monastery requires additional construction that can withstand earthquakes. This is something that only one Iceland can cope – of course imported materials imported.
In addition, environmental problems means that all the upgrades in accordance with the areas of living are set up at a time. Iceland is swept by hard winds and it is impossible to leave half of the construction due to severe strength of nature.
“It is impossible to start the construction, and then to get more funds to get more funds to start the construction and then,” said Hair Miriam. “It is impossible in Iceland climatic conditions.”
Sisters remain faithful to optimistic, prayer and serve society. They paint religious works of art to support themselves, Record CDS And decorate the candles. They also share information about the vital information in Iceland to attract a profession.
“We are praying for our parties, not only for new professions, but also modern forms of our Facebook page and our CDs and modern forms of reaching people’s hearts and minds. He said sister Miriam.
Sister Miriam felt that each of the sisters pulled themselves to serve themselves in Iceland, although they could never live there before.
“The reason we are here is the profession,” he said. “The decision to leave everything behind to obey God, especially in the foreign country, still requires determination and courage, and only God can give them.”