Formation Classes will begin in January 2018. If you are interested in inquiring about the Order of Carmelites Discalced Secular you are invited to visit the community from January to December of 2017. This allows an acquaintance to be made before formation begins. The secular ("third" order is a community of lay persons who live according to the spirit of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, but who do not leave their secular state of life [that is, they continue to live fully