There are nine sisters in community with ages ranging from thirty to eighty-six. Most of the sisters are from the West of Scotland with one from England and one from Ireland.

The domestic Altar Bread industry is their main source of income, though some vestment work is done and some card work. This, with the daily chores and keeping the spacious garden, fills the time alotted for work.

Since they are a Contemplative community, much of the sisters' time is taken up with prayer, that is meditation for two hours daily and liturgical prayer. Their prayer life is supported by daily spiritual reading, where scripture takes pride of place. Their small chapel holds about eighty people and all are welcome to join the sisters in their daily Mass and times of prayer.

Langside Carmel is situated about twenty minutes from the Glasgow City Centre, It was founded in 1918 by a small band of sisters lead by Mother Mary of Jesus of Nottinghill Carmel. They took up residence in a large house called Rawcliffe in Mansionhouse Road which had been empty for several years and needed a great deal of cleaning and endless repairs.

As the years went by the house was gradually transformed from what had been the winter residence of the Bannatyne Stewarts to a Carmel. The community flourished over the years with the support of the good people of Glasgow.

Adjacent to the Monastery is the Christian Meditation Centre which is used weekly by a Meditation Group and occasionally for longer periods. There are also poustinia rooms where those wishing to spend time in solitude and prayer may come. They cater for themselves but may join the sisters for prayer and can be given assistance with their prayer journey.

The community have shared services with their friends in the Church of Scotland with special links with Jordanhill Parish Church.

Although the life of prayer requires a certain withdrawal from the hurly- burly of life today, the sisters have contacts with many groups who work for a better world at home and abroad and are kept informed about the needs of the world around them such as alcohol and drug abuse, violence, poverty, homelessness etc.

This is an incentive in their prayer life which must always be for others, either praying with or for others, or on behalf of a humanity which is in search of a deeper meaning to life and a thirst for the love and healing that only God can give.