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Persons, places, or things can be consecrated, and the term is used in various ways by different groups. The origin of the word comes from the Latin stem consecrat, which means dedicated, devoted, and sacred. [1] A synonym for consecration is sanctification; its antonym is desecration.
[13] [14] [15] The noun form hallow, as used in Hallowtide, is a synonym of the word saint. [16] [17] [18] In the various branches of Christianity the details differ. Sanctification in Christianity usually refers to a person becoming holy, [19] while consecration in Christianity may include setting apart a person, building, or object, for God.
Consecrated virgins are consecrated by the diocesan bishop according to the approved liturgical rite. Consecrated virgins spend their time in works of penance and mercy, in apostolic activity and in prayer, according to their state of life and spiritual gifts. A consecrated virgin may live either as a nun in a monastic order or in the world.
Some other authors use the terms religious order and religious institute as synonyms; canon lawyer Nicholas Cafardi, commenting on the fact that the canonical term is religious institute, write that religious order is a colloquialism. [15]
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.
Consecration is the solemn transfer of a person or thing to a special purpose or service.. Consecration or Consecrate may also refer to: . Consecration in Christianity ...
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]