The Rule of St. Albert

The following principles of the Rule of Saint Albert, written for the hermits on Mount Carmel in the 13th century, guide Carmelite life today:

• Living in allegiance to Jesus Christ
• Being diligent in meditating on the law of the Lord
• Giving time to spiritual reading
• Participating in the liturgy of the church, both the Eucharist and the Liturgy of the Hours
• Arming themselves with the practice of the virtues
• Seeking interior silence and solitude
• Using prudent discretion in all that they do

(from "Constitutions of the Secular Order of the Teresian Carmel," 2003)