The Processional to the Outdoor Altar opened the eighth annual novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel last night at the Carmelite Monastery on Clayton Road.
The Lighted Altar for the Novena is on a platform at the base of a natural ampitheatre. Trees and shrubbery in pots form the background. At the left is a statue of Saint Teresa, the sixteenth century Carmelite nun who reformed the order; at the right is a statue of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.