The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order.
The vows reserved to the Pope or his delegate are almost all public vows and the two private vows of perfect and perpetual chastity and of entrance into a Religious Order of solemn vows.
Thus also, by Papal concession, legates may legislate for a place to which they are sent, Praelati nullius for a territory over which they are placed, General Chapters for a Religious Order, and the like.
But those who are voluntarily poor for Christ's sake, whether they belong to a religious order or not, are worthy of respect and it is meritorious to assist them.
A species of psychasthenia, scrupulosity may be described as an inordinate preoccupation with the moral and religious order, a special type of worry directed toward the morality of actions.
Defn: An indulgence as to food or dress granted to a member of a religious order.
Defn: One of a religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola, and approved in 1540, under the title of The Society of Jesus.
An indulgence as to food or dress granted to a member of a religious order.
One of a religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola, and approved in 1540, under the title of The Society of Jesus.
The number of his disciples being increased to about seventy, he formed them into a religious Order, under the rule of St. Austin, and took St. Jerom for their patron.
Still I remained steadfast in my desire of entering a religious order, and this desire increased daily.
The holy founder, with a view to perpetuate the work of God, called to Rome all his companions, and proposed to them his design and motives of forming themselves into a religious Order.
Three years after his death, in 1540, his Congregation was declared a religious Order by Paul III.
Whether a religious order can be directed to soldiering?
Whether a religious order can be established for the works of the active life?
It somehow slightly amazed her to read of the Founder of a religious Order as a little girl, who had, like herself, passed through the successive phases of babyhood, schooldays and the society of her compeers in the world.
Old-fashioned though the dress in the photograph looked to Alex' eyes, she was yet astonished that any woman so nearly of her own time should have founded a religious Order.
A religious order of women, in the Roman Catholic Church, founded in 1535 at Brescia, by Angela Merici.
But what does it matter to us, I pray you, whether our vows are solemn, or made as they are in public, or whether we are to be called a Religious Order or a Congregation?
Marquemont, although the first to urge that the Visitation should have enclosure and solemn vows, was the last to put in force the Bull erecting it into a Religious Order.
It is at this stage of history, that education enters into the fundamental plan of a Religious Order.
Thus then it was that Ignatius took in charge the secondary and superior education of the Christian world, as far as his services should be called for: he threw into the work the endowment of a Religious Order.
In the 12th century this discipline became universal among them; and so arose the order of Augustinian canons as a religious order in the strict sense of the word.
They would not have the compact organization of a religious order to keep them steady, and yet they would be the victims of the same kind of persecution as Canisius and his associates had to undergo.
He had no education whatever, and in his early life had been engaged in various occupations which scarcely seemed to fit him to be the founder of a religious order.
Borgia was thirty-six years of age when his wife died in 1546, and he then consulted Father Faber, who happened to be in Spain at the time, about the advisability of entering a religious order.
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