Welcome to the San Antonio Community
of the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites (OCDS)
Canonically installed in 1956, members of our San Antonio Community of the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites live out our Vocation to Carmel both in Community and in serving residents of the San Antonio and South Texas region. As Carmelites, we have been given the great charism of Prayer, so we present lectures and workshops designed to assist participants in encountering God through prayer and establishing a true friendship with God. Our lectures and workshops are based on the teachings of our great Carmelite Saints and Doctors of the Church, St. Teresa of Jesus, St. John of the Cross and St. Therese, the Little Flower.
If we abandon ourselves, and place our confidence in God, while making every small effort and hoping for everything from His mercy, we shall be rewarded as much as the greatest saints.
St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face
