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4th Unit Cle Notes

The document discusses the essence of religious life, emphasizing the importance of community, prayer, and service within religious congregations. It outlines the significance of the Sacrament of Matrimony as a sacred covenant that fosters love and unity between man and woman, reflecting God's love. Additionally, it highlights the evangelical counsels of poverty, charity, and obedience as foundational principles guiding religious individuals and communities.

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4th Unit Cle Notes

The document discusses the essence of religious life, emphasizing the importance of community, prayer, and service within religious congregations. It outlines the significance of the Sacrament of Matrimony as a sacred covenant that fosters love and unity between man and woman, reflecting God's love. Additionally, it highlights the evangelical counsels of poverty, charity, and obedience as foundational principles guiding religious individuals and communities.

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RELIGIOUS LIFE :DEDICATED TO GOD > Reccomendations

AN INTIMATE COMMUNION
RELIGIOUS LIFE
- Religious orders + Man and woman were created to be one
- Religious Congregation +Original Sin separates the two sexes
- Religious communities +The Sacrament confers the grace necessary to overcome
- Groups recognized by the church (religious the division and become one as God intended
congregation) + Love each other physically and emotionally but also in
Christ
RULE OF LIFE + Recognize that God is present in their love for their
> Unique to each congregation spouse and children; It's God's love acting through them
> A way to fulfill the mission of the congregation for others
+ Act as a sign of God's faithful love
3 ESSENTIALS OF A RELIGIOUS GROUP + Daily fidelity through highest and lowest moments

Community THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY


> Challenge the community to remember God in their life
> Religious need & affirmation Natural Marriage
• A permanent bond from which a family grows
Prayer • Between non-baptized persons or a Catholic and another
> Keeping faith that love will lead to God non-baptized person
> Deepening the relationship with God • Civil marriage or other religious marriage

Service Sacramental Marriage


> Religious serve in a myriad of ways • It recognizes and participates in the New Covenant of
> Meeting needs in the community Christ, and is thus a sign to the world of God's love
• It is entered into by a baptized man and a baptized
3 TYPE OF RELIGIOUS CONGREGATIONS woman in a
liturgical setting.
Mendicants
> Mobile preachers and they depended on the good will of MARRIAGE IS A SECRED COVENANT
the people to survive.
UNDERSTANDING THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY
Contemplatives + Man longs to be united
> Their way of life is centered on meditation, +It is part of our human nature; we have been detached +
contemplation, or communication with God. Woman is man's helper and vice versa
+ We grow close to each other and attach ourselves to one
Service congregations another; united
> +Through this mutual relationship we both grow to
understand the great love and passion Christ has for his
EVANGELICAL COUNSELS Church
+ Through the Church we are prepared to receive the true
Poverty unity that we have been longing for
> No money or possesions
HELPING EACH OTHER GROW IN LOVE
Charity/Celibacy Marriage established by God for two reasons:
> Live morally or live single 1. The good of the husband and wife + To help each other
understand and experience true love; draws each other
Obedience closer to God
> Do the will of God 2. The procreation and education of children
The effects of the Sacrament are directed towards the
RELIGIOUS FORMATION spouse and any children as well.
> A period of preparation of an individual before
making a vowed commitment to religious life AN INTIMATE COMMUNION
•Man and woman were created to be one
RELIGIOUS VOWS + Original Sin separates the two sexes
> An oath or promise committing oneself to religious + The Sacrament confers the grace necessary to overcome
life the division and become one as God Intended
> Vows taken by the consecrated + Love each other physically and emotionally but also in
Christ
EVANGELICAL + Recognize that God is present in their love for their
> Pertaining to the good news spouse and children; It's God's love acting through them
for others
COUNSELS +Act as a sign of God's faithful love
+Dally fidelity through highest and lowest moments

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