Welcome to Frequently Asked Questions! This site is provided as a service to members of the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites in the California-Arizona Province of St. Joseph, particularly for the purpose of assisting groups and communities of our Order to implement the Provincial Formation Guidelines. We pray that it will meet your needs.

We make every effort to provide accurate information; the user alone, however, bears full responsibility for any actions undertaken based on the information presented. Neither the California-Arizona Province of St. Joseph, nor the owners, operators, or contributors to this site may be held liable for any action taken on the basis of information contained here or in the OCDS Formation Guidelines for the California-Arizona Province of St. Joseph.

Please bring your questions here and with God's grace we will do our best to answer them and share with each other.

"We must consider how to rouse one another to love and good works." Hebrews 10:24