THIRDORDER
Third order
In relation to religious orders, a third order is an association of persons who live according to the ideals and spirit of a Catholic, Anglican, or Lutheran religious order, but do not belong to its "first order", or its "second order" . Members of third orders, known as tertiaries, are generally laypersons, i.e. men and women who do not take religious vows, but participate in the good works of order and may be allowed to wear at least some elements of the order's habit, such as a scapular. Less often, they belong to a religious institute that is called a "third order secular").The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Third order
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