SOURCE: Fr. Miguel Márquez Calle, OCD | Superior General | Excerpt from January 21, 2025 Letter
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“In the letter I sent you on September 30, 2024, I brought to your attention the importance of not letting the first promise of the OCDS expire, which has juridical value and is valid for three years (cfr. OCDS Const. 36c). Unfortunately, we continue to experience the little importance that some circumscriptions give to this important fact. There are many brothers and sisters of the OCDS who find themselves in irregular situations regarding their promise. Some have let their first promise expire and continue their life in community without formally extending it and others have made their definitive promise having let the first promise expire. It is necessary to remember that the promises in the OCDS — with due distinctions, of course — are as important as the vows are for the nuns and friars in our Order. The OCDS is not a devotional group or association, its members are members of the Order of Discalced Carmelites and must fulfill what is required of them in their Constitutions.

I explained to you that a sanatio in radice was necessary to regularize these situations and I asked you to request it by writing to the OCDS Secretariat in Rome, in the case you have members who find themselves in these situations. Many circumscriptions have requested it and some others — in which we know there are people in irregular situations — have not done so.”

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