Discalced Augustinian Rituale (2023), §§235–236, 240
Discalced Augustinian Third Order: promises and annual feasts
The Third Order has distinct enrollment and promise opportunities.
Time required Renewal and named prayers: about 3–7 minutes (estimate); actual rites vary.
- When
- Enrollment; promise; its 25th, 50th, 60th and 75th anniversaries; community patron; feast of a saint or blessed whose body or notable relic is kept in the community; the community’s canonical visitation; general chapter or general assembly; Conversion of St Augustine (24 April). Also: Our Lady of Consolation (4 September); St Joseph (19 March); St Augustine (28 August); St Monica (27 August); All Saints of the Order (13 November); St Nicholas of Tolentino (10 September); reform anniversary (19 May).
- Where
- No special location prescribed by this membership grant.
- Who
- Members of the Third Order of the Discalced Augustinians. Local patron, relic and visitation occasions concern only the member’s respective OAD community.
- Application
- Self or the departed
The prescribed work
- Make or renew, even privately, the promise to observe the commitments of your state and its rule, constitutions or statutes.
- Fulfil the ordinary plenary conditions. The ritual specifies Creed and Our Father and Hail Mary, or another prayer, for the Pope’s intentions.
The work and its conditions
A plenary indulgence also requires complete detachment from every sin, sacramental confession, Holy Communion, and prayer for the Pope’s intentions, subject to the grant’s stated exceptions. The ordinary limit is one plenary indulgence per day.
Conditions common to every indulgence
The person gaining an indulgence must be baptized, not excommunicated, and in the state of grace at least when the prescribed works are completed. There must be at least a general intention to gain indulgences, and the prescribed work must be performed at the time and in the manner required by the grant.
Read the full conditions and norms. The cited grant and its specific provisions govern.
Time required
Read each branch with its own conditions. An editorial estimate is not a prescribed minimum.
Enrollment or the actual Third Order promise
Complete the prescribed event
Full rite or event; duration varies
Complete the actual admission procedure, rite or event specified by this grant. The source sets no fixed duration; follow the organizer’s schedule.
Timing sources
- Discalced Augustinian General Curia — Rituale, promulgated 22 May 2023Part I, chapter 6, §§235–236, 240, pp. 110–111
- Discalced Augustinian General Curia: 2026 liturgical and pastoral calendarPresented by the Prior General on 15 October 2025; Preamble 4, printed p.10 explicitly includes religious, Third Order and Laici OAD in common and local-community occasions.
- Discalced Augustinian General Curia: 2026 liturgical and pastoral calendarPreamble 4, p.10: eligible classes, common and community occasions, and at least private faithful-observance renewal.
Qualifying feast, anniversary or community occasion: promise renewal and prescribed prayers
Editorial estimate
About 3–7 minutes (editorial estimate)
No fixed minimum is prescribed. This estimate includes a simple private renewal, Creed, and Our Father and Hail Mary; the ritual permits another prayer for the Pope’s intentions. A longer chosen formula or actual rite takes longer. A chapter, assembly or visitation is a qualifying occasion; whole-event attendance by each member is not separately stated.
Timing sources
- Discalced Augustinian General Curia — Rituale, promulgated 22 May 2023Part I, chapter 6, §§235–236, 240, pp. 110–111
- Discalced Augustinian General Curia: 2026 liturgical and pastoral calendarPresented by the Prior General on 15 October 2025; Preamble 4, printed p.10 explicitly includes religious, Third Order and Laici OAD in common and local-community occasions.
- Discalced Augustinian General Curia: 2026 liturgical and pastoral calendarPreamble 4, p.10: eligible classes, common and community occasions, and at least private faithful-observance renewal.
What the time estimate excludes
- Ordinary travel to and from the venue, and waiting outside the prescribed work
- Separate fulfillment of the usual plenary conditions, except prayers or Mass expressly included in the branch.
Occasion and source notes
Dates show customary Roman or proper religious-family celebrations. Follow lawful liturgical transfers and the grant’s own local calendar. Membership, place, frequency and other conditions remain necessary. Annunciation, St Joseph and Immaculate Conception use standard Roman transfer rules where listed. The applicable local or proper calendar, lawful external solemnity and any specific indult govern the actual observance.
The 2023 ritual lists the Third Order’s patronal and personal occasions. The 2026 General Curia calendar additionally and expressly includes Third Order members in the common General Chapter or General Assembly occasions and in their own community’s notable-relic feast and canonical visitation. These additional occasions follow that competent current calendar, while the state-specific promise and ordinary conditions remain required.
Prayer texts and resources
Follow the prayer count and formula specified in the requirements. The two Creed readers are alternatives.
Source and exact reference
- Discalced Augustinian General Curia — Rituale, promulgated 22 May 2023Part I, chapter 6, §§235–236, 240, pp. 110–111
- Discalced Augustinian General Curia: 2026 liturgical and pastoral calendarPresented by the Prior General on 15 October 2025; Preamble 4, printed p.10 explicitly includes religious, Third Order and Laici OAD in common and local-community occasions.
Prayer texts and grants have separate source histories. Consult the grant source for the prescribed work, occasion, and conditions.