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Lesson 14

The Nature and Forms of Consecrated Life

Everyone who enters consecrated life takes solemn vows that bind them to the practices of poverty, chastity, and obedience, in the imitation of Christ.

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Lesson Topics
Church History Religious Life Vocation
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Lesson Vocabulary

  • Poverty (Evangelical Counsel)
    :
    (n.): The Evangelical Counsel by which a person solemnly vows to remain extremely poor in imitation of Christ, owning few possessions of their own, and in the case of those consecrated persons living in community, to sharing property in common with the others in their community.
  • Chastity (Evangelical Counsel)
    :
    (n.): The Evangelical Counsel by which a person solemnly vows to live a life of perpetual virginity and celibacy for the sake of the Kingdom, freely committing to abstain from all sexual or romantic relationships.
  • Obedience (Evangelical Counsel)
    :
    (n.): The Evangelical Counsel by which a person solemnly vows to freely submit his or her will to a rule of life and to the authority of a superior.
  • Rule of Life
    :
    (n.): A formal set of expectations that define daily life for persons belonging to a religious order, leading to spiritual peace and harmony in a community.
  • Charity
    :
    (n.): The theological virtue by which we love God above all things for His own sake and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God.
  • Apostolic See
    :
    (n.): The seat of authority of the entire Roman Catholic Church that continues the Apostolic leadership of St. Peter in and through the pope.
  • Monasticism
    :
    (n.): The mode of life of monks, friars, or nuns in seclusion from the world, under religious vows and subject to a fixed rule. From the Greek for “dwelling alone.”
  • Rule of Saint Benedict
    :
    (n.): St. Benedict of Nursia’s book of precepts directing all aspects of life in the Benedictine Monasteries in light of human nature and our duties to God. Written around AD 530, it is 73 chapters long and is often summarized by the phrase “Ora et Labora” or “Pray and Work.”
  • Rule of Saint Basil
    :
    (n.): Rule of St. Basil written for his monastery in AD 356. Founded on principles of poverty, obedience, renunciation, and self-denial, it is divided into two parts: the “Greater Monastic Rules” and the “Lesser Rules.”
  • Monks
    :
    (n.): Members of a community of religious men, living apart from the world under the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, according to the community’s rule of life.
  • Nuns
    :
    (n.): The word commonly used to refer to religious sisters living in a community under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Strictly speaking, nuns are religious living a cloistered, contemplative life in a convent.
  • Mendicant Orders
    :
    (n.): Religious communities who renounce ownership of all property and foxed sources of income, entrusting their needs and work completely to the province of God by relying on almsgiving to support themselves. From Latin mendicus for "beggar." The original mendicant orders in the Middle Ages (the Franciscans were the first) begged for all their needs.
  • Societies of Apostolic Life
    :
    (n.): Groups whose purpose is to build the Kingdom of God, who live in community, but do not make religious vows.
  • Consecrated Virgins
    :
    (n.): Women who have been consecrated by their bishop as brides of Christ, and who spend their life in works of penance and mercy, in apostolic activity, and prayer.

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