The Vow of Poverty

Brothers, let us imitate the poverty of Saint Francis of Assisi, because of this " No religious is to call anything his own." but let everything be in common and the prior or the religious appointed by him, shall distribute to each one..."(Primitive Rule of Carmel)

My sons and brothers, remember, we have given up everything to Jesus therefore let us trust in His Divine providence, whatever we receive comes from Our Lord and He gave it through you for the community, For as the prior is the Vicar of Christ in the monastery you also represent the whole community. Let not the spirit of greed invade the community for it will cause the weakening of brotherhood in a community. Sharing is charity an act of love and true sign of holiness. For love itself is holiness because God is Holy He is also love.

Let us express radically imitating the poverty of the Lord by wearing simple habit made of sack cloth or catcha. Let our habit serves as a penitential garment. Let our habit have an inner tunic  made of catcha cloth or sack cloth and the proper habit the outer tunic with the scapular of ponjie cloth, with the color of earth.
Let this be for every religious the garment of grace along with the scapular of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel.

We also have  working habit to be worn during manual work with apron. We must not remove the habit, we just protect it with our working habit, it depends upon the approval of the prior. the working habit must be in black color.

Saint Teresa of Jesus of Avila said: Wearing the Carmelite habit remind us that we must be in contemplation even when in work. Let us meditate on the life of our Lord and contemplate His Holy Face.