Life in the Third Order
There are now more than three thousand members of the Third Order world-wide, and so we are divided
into Provinces: Europe (which has more than two thousand members), the Americas, Australia, New Zealand and Africa.
The European Province is again divided into Clusters, and each cluster
comprises a number of Areas. Within each Area there are local groups
which is the most important unit for tertiaries and which usually meet
monthly. There are also regular Area meetings during the year, and
every six years or so the whole membership is invited to attend a
General Chapter. The last General Chapter was in York in August 2006 on
the theme of Heralds of the Great King. Local group meetings enable members to be in fellowship with other Tertiaries, and
our Area meetings enable us to have a better sense of ourselves as an Order.
The Order is run by our Minister Provincial who
chairs Provincial Chapter, which is made up of Link Tertiaries representing each Cluster, the Secretary, Treasurer, Formation andNovice Guardians, as well as the Mission and Communication Coordinators, most of whom are elected by the membership. Chapter
meets together three times a year.
Twice a year the Order publishes The Chronicle, and if you follow the chronicle link below,
you will find the archive of articles from past Chronicles. We also have a quarterly newsletter called Third Order News which is archived
on this site on the Newsletter Page in the members Area.