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What makes the consecrated life a more exacting way of Christian living is the public religious vows or other sacred bonds whereby the consecrated persons commit themselves, for the love of God, to observe as binding the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty and obedience from the Gospel, or, in the case of consecrated virgins a holy resolution (sanctum propositum) of leading a life of ...
The Claretianum, officially the Claretian Pontifical Institute of the Theology of the Consecrated Life (Italian: L’Istituto Pontificio di Teologia della Vita Consacrata Claretianum; Latin: Pontificium Institutum Theologiae Vitae Consecratae Claretianum [1]), is an educational institute of the Roman Catholic Church in Rome founded by the Claretians.
Vita consecrata is an apostolic exhortation written by Pope John Paul II, published on 25 March 1996.The exhortation is a post-synodal document. Its sub-title is "On the consecrated life and its mission in the Church and in the world".
Apart from the consecrated life, Christians are free to make a private vow to observe one or more of the evangelical counsels; but a private vow does not have the same binding and other effects in church law as a public vow. Henriette Browne Nuns at work in the cloister
Customarily, the newly consecrated bishop ordains a priest and a deacon at the Liturgy during which he is consecrated. A priest may serve only at the pleasure of his bishop. A bishop bestows faculties (permission to minister within his diocese ) giving a priest chrism and an antimins ; he may withdraw faculties and demand the return of these items.
The period that followed the promulgation of Perfectae Caritatis was marked by a huge amount of experimentation in religious life. Many institutes replaced their traditional habits with more modern attire, experimented with different forms of prayer and community life, and adapted obedience to a superior to a form of consultation and discussion.
Consecrated life; Consecrated life (Catholic Church) Consecrated life, Institute of – see: Institute of consecrated life (below) Corpus Juris Canonici; Council, Pontifical – see: Pontifical Council (below) Counter-Reformation – the period of Catholic revival beginning with the Council of Trent and ending at the close of the Thirty Years' War.