"Called to Holiness".
Holiness is what is most necessary for the Church to carry out her mission of being in the world the salvific reflection of Christ. Without it, all the achievements of her worldly action and the development of her constant actualization are impossible or useless.
The saints are, then, the blessing that the Church and the world expect from the grace of God, because in them: "God reveals his presence and his face to men and women in a living way. In them it is God himself who speaks to us and offers us a sign of his kingdom, to which we are strongly drawn, preceded as we are by so great a number of witnesses (cf. Heb 12:1) and by such a clear witness to the truth of the Gospel" (LG 50).
We Secular Carmelites are also called to be saints, this being the first vocation we have since baptism. There are several brothers and sisters who, having lived their Christian life as SEGULAR CARMELITES, are in different moments of their process of canonization. They, who have gone ahead of us in Eternal Life, should serve as an example for our life as Discalced Carmelites in the world.
