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  2. Evangelical counsels - Wikipedia

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    The Rule of Saint Benedict (ch. 58.17) indicates that the newly received promise stability, fidelity to monastic life, and obedience. Religious vows in the form of the three evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty, and obedience were first made in the twelfth century by Francis of Assisi and his followers, the first of the mendicant orders.

  3. Missionaries of Charity - Wikipedia

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    Members of the order designate their affiliation using the order's initials, "M.C.". A member of the congregation must adhere to the vows of chastity, poverty, obedience, and the fourth vow, to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor." [4] Today, the order consists of both contemplative and active branches in several countries.

  4. Community of the Sisters of the Church - Wikipedia

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    The Community of the Sisters of the Church is a religious order of women in various Anglican provinces who live the vowed life of poverty, chastity and obedience. In 2012 the order had 105 sisters living in community, together with an extensive network of associates.

  5. Perfectae Caritatis - Wikipedia

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    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 in our time" (Perfectae Caritatis n. 1). Containing 25 numbered paragraphs, the Decree established five general principles to guide the ...

  6. Sisters for Christian Community - Wikipedia

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    The Vow of Poverty is lived as serving and sharing; Obedience is practiced by the individual member through a careful listening to God and the cry of the poor; Chastity is lived as celibate love. Each member is self-supporting and responsible to finance her ministry, personal needs, housing, medical care and retirement.

  7. Religious vows - Wikipedia

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    There are other forms of consecrated life in the Catholic Church for both men and women. They make a public profession of the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty, and obedience, confirmed by a vow or other sacred bond, regulated by canon law but live consecrated lives in the world (i.e. not as members of a religious institute).

  8. Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites - Wikipedia

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    Secular Discalced Carmelites profess promises to strive to live evangelical perfection in the spirit of the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty, obedience, and of the beatitudes. [1] They are an integral part of the Discalced Carmelites, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] juridically dependent upon the Discalced Carmelites friars, [ 4 ] and in "fraternal ...

  9. Chastity, poverty, and obedience - Wikipedia

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