Chastity

In keeping with the Carmelite tradition, the Carmelites profess the evangelical counsels by making vows of obedience, chastity, and poverty to God.

For the religious men, chastity is closely associated with concepts like celibacy, purity and continence in imitation of Our Lady. These vows of poverty, chastity and obedience form one single commitment to follow Christ in a particular way which flow from the evangelical counsels of Jesus Christ and observed until death.

The Nuns make solemn vows of obedience, poverty, and chastity and observe strict enclosure in order to foster their life of prayer and contemplation.

Even the Secular Carmelites profess promises to strive to live evangelical perfection in the spirit of the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty, obedience, and of the Beatitudes, according to the Constitutions of the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites.

Thus, Chastity is a gift and a virtue that is practised by every Carmelite!