Patrick professed First Vows at the Monastery of Mt. Carmel in Niagara Falls, ONT on August 22, 1968. He received a B.A. from Marquette University (Wisconsin) and a M.T.S. from the Washington Theological Union (DC). He holds a Ph.D. in history from New York University. His dissertation for the Doctorate was entitled “Servants of Two Masters: A History of the Carmine of Florence 1267-1400.”
Since 1998, Patrick has been the Provincial Delegate to the Third Order and since 1994 the director of the Carmelitana Collection at Whitefriars Hall in Washington, DC. Among his educational work, he has been a lecturer in the Carmelite Studies Program at the Washington Theological Union since 1992 and at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC in 1997, 1999, and 2000. He participates in Continuing Formation Programs at various OCD monasteries in the USA.
He is the author of a number of articles including “Carmelite Theology” and “Carmelite Women” in the Encyclopedia of Monasticism (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers) and the article on “Carmelite Spirituality” in the New Catholic Encyclopedia. He has also contributed various festschrift articles, most notably for Eamon Carroll and Roland Murphy. In addition, he has presented papers at Medieval Conferences in 1994, 1997 and 2001.
Rev. Patrick McMahon is President of the Carmelite Institute.