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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".
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 ...
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This chapter described the essential form of religious life as a life "consecrated by the profession of the evangelical counsels" (n. 44). The Decree Perfectae Caritatis was published in order to "treat of the life and discipline of those institutes whose members make profession of chastity, poverty and obedience and to provide for their needs ...
Redemptionis donum (English: The gift of the Redemption) is a post-synodal apostolic exhortation of Pope John Paul II, signed on 25 March 1984.. Written at the sole initiative of the Pope, the document speaks of religious consecration in the light of the mystery of Redemption.
Church buildings, chapels, altars, and Communion vessels are consecrated for the purpose of religious worship. A person may be consecrated for a specific role within a religious hierarchy, or a person may consecrate his or her life in an act of devotion. In particular, the ordination of a bishop is often called a consecration.
A religious institute is an institute of consecrated life whose members take public vows and lead a fraternal life in common (Canon 607.2). They are broadly termed as religious and include monastic orders , mendicant orders , canons regular , and clerics regular .