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  2. List of ecclesiastical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Here may also be classed the abbreviated forms for the name of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost; also for the names of the Blessed Virgin, the saints, etc.; likewise abbreviations used in the administration of the Sacraments, mortuary epitaphs, etc. (to which class belong the numerous Catacomb inscriptions); finally some miscellaneous ...

  3. Religious order (Catholic) - Wikipedia

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    If for a just cause a member of a religious order was expelled, the vow of chastity remained unchanged and so rendered invalid any attempt at marriage, the vow of obedience obliged in relation, generally, to the bishop rather than to the religious superior, and the vow of poverty was modified to meet the new situation but the expelled religious ...

  4. Evangelical counsels - Wikipedia

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    The Rule of Saint Benedict (ch. 58.17) indicates that the newly received promise stability, fidelity to monastic life, and obedience. Religious vows in the form of the three evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty, and obedience were first made in the twelfth century by Francis of Assisi and his followers, the first of the mendicant orders.

  5. Glossary of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Religious institute (Catholic) Religious order; Religious priest – see: Regular clergy (above) Rite to Being - The rite of being left alone to pray to Jesus Christ; Religious sister – see: Sister (below) Right of Option - a way of obtaining a benefice or a title, by the choice of the new titulary; Roman Catholic - The Roman rite of the ...

  6. Vow of obedience - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Holy obedience - Wikipedia

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    Christian obedience is a free choice to surrender one's will to God, [6] and an act of homage. [3]Amongst the moral virtues obedience enjoys a primacy of honour. The reason is that the greater or lesser excellence of a moral virtue is determined by the greater or lesser value of the object which it qualifies one to put aside in order to give oneself to God.

  8. Ten Commandments in Catholic theology - Wikipedia

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    "Obedience and honor" to "all who for our good have received authority in society from God". "Payment of taxes, exercising the right to vote and defending one's country". "An obligation to be vigilant and critical", which requires citizens to criticize that which harms human dignity and the community.

  9. Glossary of Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Bauer lexicon – the standard English lexicon of Biblical Greek. Bible – a collection of writings by early Christians, believed to be mostly Jewish disciples of Christ, written in first-century Koine Greek. Among Christian denominations there is some disagreement about what should be included in the canon, primarily about the Apocrypha, a ...