Vows

Here are resources to be used by those discerning making Vows.

• Request to Begin Discernment to Make Vows Form (Fillable PDF, Updated 8/23)

• Provincial Statutes [PDF] (Statutes 43-46)

• Fr. Philip Sainz de Baranda, OCD (Superior General): "Instruction on the Vows for the OCDS" [PDF]

• Fr. Alzinir Debastiani's (General Delegate to the OCDS) book:
  "The Promise and Vows in the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites" Link to purchase

• Fr. Michael Buckley, OCD: "Vows in the OCDS" [PDF]

• John Leidy, OCDS: "Understanding Vows" [PDF]

• OCDS Rituals for Promises and Vows [PDF] (English) | (Spanish)