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In the Catholic Church, a consecrated virgin is a virgin woman who has been consecrated by the church as a bride of Christ. Consecrated virgins are consecrated by the diocesan bishop according to the approved liturgical rite, are required to maintain perpetual virginity because they are espoused to Christ, [ 1 ] and are dedicated to the service ...
Supreme Moderators of Institutes of Consecrated Life or Societies of Apostolic Life ("Superiors General") Prelate of Personal prelature; Ordinary of Personal ordinariate or Military ordinariate; Presidents of international associations of the faithful; Ordinaries (vicarious) Diocesan administrators (formerly, vicar capitular) Archdeacons
The Carmelite Rite is used the Carmelites, and also by the Monks of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and the Brazilian Hermits of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel. The Dominican Rite is used by the Dominican Order, as well as the Fraternity of Saint Vincent Ferrer. The Premonstratensian Rite is used by the Premonstratensians.
The consecration of Saint Genevieve, 1821, by M. Basterot (Ste. Genevieve, Missouri). Consecrated virgins are consecrated by the diocesan bishop according to the approved liturgical rite and spend their time in works of penance and mercy, in apostolic activity and in prayer.
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 Blessed Virgin Mary venerated as The Virgin of the Navigators, 1531–1536, with her protective mantle covering those entrusted to her [1]. The consecration and entrustment to the Virgin Mary is a personal or collective act of Marian devotion among Catholics, with the Latin terms oblatio, servitus, commendatio and dedicatio being used in this context. [2]
Of course the call comes from god but: V'Virgins who, committed to the holy plan of following Christ more closely, are consecrated to God by the diocesan bishop according to the approved liturgical rite, are betrothed mystically to Christ, the Son of God, and are dedicated to the service of the Church.'
The first known formal rite of consecration of virginity is that of Saint Marcellina, dated AD 353, mentioned in De Virginibus by her brother, Saint Ambrose. Another early consecrated virgin is Saint Genevieve (c. 422 – c. 512). Thomas Aquinas emphasized that acts other than copulation destroy virginity as well. He also clarified that ...