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The Vowed Life The Evangelical Counsels
Poverty "Poverty, voluntarily embraced, also assumes the qualification of the testimony of one's love of Christ and the participation in His poverty, as much as He, who was rich, became poor for us, to enrich us with His poverty. In this spirit, the Religious, even though she provides for her necessities through work, she is to dismiss every excessive preoccupation and rely on the providence of the Father in Heaven." Trinitarian Constitution, Chapter IV, Article 51
Chastity "Chastity, embraced for the Kingdom of Heaven, is an eminent gift of grace that unifies a Religious more intimately to Christ and the Church and renders her heart free in a special manner, so as to inflame it always with more charity to God and people." Trinitarian Constitution, Chapter IV, Article 43.
Obedience "In the spirit of sincere obedience and mutual respect, the Religious cooperates with active and responsible obedience in the fulfillment of her duties, in the initiatives she undertakes and in the execution of orders, placing energies and gifts of nature and grace at the availability of the community for an effectual service to the Church and a harmonic family life. In such obedience there must be no limits to availability, but must engage to live entirely in the imitation of Christ, who, moved by the Spirit, fulfilled the will of God in everything." Trinitarian Constitution, Chapter IV, Article 56 | ||
"... of chastity, poverty, and obedience, consecrated to God are a divine gift, a sign and an excellent way of liberating the heart.' (Constitution Chapter IV, #40)
