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Membership in the Order of Malta is by invitation only and each prospective member must be sponsored by a member. The sponsor, a Knight or Dame, mentors the candidate throughout the Year of Formation preceding his or her Investiture into the Order.
Spirituality Knights and Dames join the Order of Malta to pursue their spiritual growth over a path laid out by Blessed Gerard more than nine hundred years ago, seeking to nurture and witness the Faith and assist the sick and the poor.
The Order of Malta has three membership classes: Knights of Justice, Knights and Dames in Obedience, and Knights and Dames of Magistral Grace. Members pledge lifelong commitments through religious vows, promises, or oaths, depending on their class.
Members of the First Class are Knights of Justice, or Professed Knights, and the Professed Conventual Chaplains, who have made vows of “poverty, chastity and obedience aspiring to perfection according to the Gospel”. They are religious according to Canon Law but are not obliged to live in community.
The Order's membership includes about 13,500 Knights, Dames and Chaplains. [7] . Thirty-three of these are professed religious Knights of Justice. [2] . Until the 1990s, the highest classes of membership, including officers, required proof of noble lineage.
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Most of the members of the Order of Malta are Knights and Dames in the Third Class. These men and women are faithful Roman Catholics who feel a special calling to serve the needy and sick in their communities through a religious order.
Most of the Order of Malta’s 13,500 knights and dames are lay members. Although they have not pronounced any religious vow, they are all devoted to the exercise of Christian virtue and charity, and committed to developing their spirituality within the Catholic Church and to expending their energies collaborating in the medical and social ...
The members of the Second Class, by virtue of the Promise of Obedience, are committed to living according to Christian principles and the inspiring principles of the Order. They are subdivided into three categories: Knights and Dames of Honour and Devotion in Obedience; Knights and Dames of Grace and Devotion in Obedience
Members of the First Class are Knights of Justice, or Professed Knights, and the Professed Conventual Chaplains, who have made vows of “poverty, chastity and obedience aspiring to perfection according to the Gospel”. They are religious according to Canon Law but are not obliged to live in community.