| The point
of this presentation is to answer the question: What are the principles
that you use to discern the vocation to the Secular Order of the Discalced
Carmelites? Who is called to be a Secular Carmelite and how do you distinguish
between those called and those not called? Among
the friars and the nuns, people do not leave because they are bad people.
People are not sent home from the monastery or the convent because they
are morally unacceptable. It is a vocation to be a member of the Order
and one that needs, for everyone's sake, to be clearly identified. Otherwise,
the Order, either the Friars, or the Nuns, or the Seculars, loses its
way and confuses its identity. I would describe a member of the Secular
Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Saint Teresa of Jesus as: |
