Vow of obedience
Religious oath made by some Catholics
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In the Catholic Church , the vow of obedience is one of the three vows of professing to live according to the evangelical counsels . It forms part of the religious vows that are made both by members of the religious institutes and diocesan hermits .
Description
This is stipulated in
- the candidate's respective Church law, for example in the Roman Catholic Church , the 1983 Code of Canon Law (see canons 573, 601, 603.2)
- the candidate's respective rule, for example for those that are to be received into a Benedictine monastic community the Rule of St Benedict (ch. 58.17).
The 1983 Code of Canon Law (canon 601) defines it as follows:
External links
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain
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Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913).
Catholic Encyclopedia
. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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- ↑ Code of Canon Law, Canon 601 , accessed 22 July 2022