Congratulations to Ana, who just made her First Promises on Sunday, October 27th, at 5 pm at the Carmelite Monastery.

In Memoriam:
Sara E. Zervos, OCDS

Sara made her Definitive Promises in the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites in 2007. She was a wife, mother, grandmother, and an accomplished attorney. For many years, she was the attorney for Father Peter Mary Rookey, O.S.M. Sara was always helping others, and she was exemplary in her love of God and love of neighbor. Our Community will greatly miss her.

OCDS Community after Vespers in chapel, July 25, 2021 — OCDS Community in the Carmelite Chapel

**Sara is in the very middle, right in front of Fr. Paul.**

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Welcome to the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites, Our Lady Queen of Peace Community!

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If you are interested in joining the Secular Carmelites, you would have to attend a prescribed amount of meetings, then ask the Director of Formation to provide you with an application for joining. In addition, you would present us with your Baptismal Certificate and Confirmation Certificate, plus a letter (form letter is fine) from your parish certifying that you are a member there. Also, you need to be fully able to receive all the sacraments. The council would then look at these materials and vote on your acceptance.

Upon acceptance, you would begin attending formation lessons (before or after the meetings). After one year, you would receive your Scapular and choose a predicate name; after two years, you would make your First Promises; and after three years, you would make your Final Promises.

Our OCDS Corpus Christi altar: June 2, 2024

**Sr. Giuseppe, OCD, and the Carmelite Sisters’ ministry in Wisconsin: Carmelite Ministry of St. Teresa**

The Shrine of Our Lady of the Scapular in Burundi, Africa, established and directed by Carmelite Missionaries (Images provided by Fr. Fryderyk Jaworski, OCD).