Please access the most recent OCDS Newsletter for the latest on the upcoming elections, both for the province and all canonically established communities; a special event in August 2014, celebrating “the creative spiritual genius of St. Teresa of Avila Today”; the upcoming Regional Congress in Atlanta, also in August; and the upcoming quincentenary for the birth of Holy Mother Saint Teresa of Jesus.

Of special note is the following news regarding the increase in annual dues:

After much consultation and discernment, our OCDS Provincial Council has decided to raise annual dues to the Central Office from $25 to $35. Our Province’s dues have not been raised in many years. Since expenses have increased over this period of time, the increase has become necessary. We also need to make extensive repairs to our OCDS Central Office, a wooden modular building originally installed in the mid-1980s.

We hope this increase will not be a hardship. If a member cannot afford all or even part of this amount, the community does not need to make it up.

Please take a look!