The Rule of St. Albert

OCDS Constitutions

Provincial Statues

Ratio Institutionis

Rituals

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Footnote to the OCDS Constitutions

"These Legislative documents give us the necessary guidance in terms of our community life, study, service and prayer... its members can reinvigorate more and more their baptismal consecration in the concrete situations of family, social, civilian and ecclesial life."

​"My wish is for every Community to grow in fraternal communion after the image of the perfect communion of the Most Holy Trinity. In fact the Trinitarian mystery 'reminds us that we have been created in the image of that divine communion, and so we cannot achive fulfilment or salvation purely by our own efforts' (Francis Evangelii Guadium L78). Only by 'a radiant and attractive witness of fraternal communion, a communion which heals, promotes and reinforces interpersonal bonds' (id99.67) in accordance with the charism of the Teresian Carmel, will you have the strength to live your lay vocation and transform earthly realities in accordance with the spirit of the Gospel. (Fr. Saverio Cannistrd, OCD Superior General)

Community of St. Joseph