The more attentive and less superficial readers will not fail to notice that being considered now as a Public Association of Faithful, with all the specifications that this entails, confers on our Order a depth and a richness of attributions and perspectives which go far beyond the vague and fragile status of being considered a third Order as it was understood then. Moreover, the OFS hardly corresponds, now less than ever, to the definition of third Order given by the present Code of Canon Law and to the doctrine underlying it.
Además, la OFS corresponde ahora menos que nunca a la presente definición de tercera orden del Código y a la doctrina que le corresponde