Religious Profession

Rule of Life, n.15

By our profession of religious life

we respond to the call of the Lord

who invites us to leave all things to follow him,

and we publicly commit ourselves within the Church

to live in chastity, poverty and obedience.

 

Religious profession incorporates us into a

community of brothers

and expresses our determination to live the Gospel in a radical way.

 

Nourished by Christ,

who give himself to us totally in the Eucharist,

we express, in our form of life, the gift of ourselves

as it was lived and taught by our Holy Founder.

 

Our vows express our consecration to God

in the service of our fellow human beings,

and witness to a world yet to come in the spirit of the Beatitudes.