MONTEREY COUNTY – The Secular Order of the Discalced Carmelites (OCDS) is a third order of Catholic lay persons and secular clergy associated with the Order of the Discalced Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel.
Secular Discalced Carmelites profess promises to strive to live evangelical perfection in the spirit of the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty, obedience, and of the beatitudes. They are an integral part of the Discalced Carmelites, juridically dependent upon the Discalced Carmelites friars, and in “fraternal communion” with them and the cloistered nuns. They share the same charism with the friars and nuns according to their particular state of life.
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