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247:. The Code of Canon Law gives for societies of apostolic life regulations much less detailed than for institutes of consecrated life, in many instances simply referring to the constitutions of the individual societies. Although societies of apostolic life may in externals resemble religious life, a major distinction is that they are not themselves consecrated and their state of life does not change (i.e. they remain secular clerics or laypersons).
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defines it as "a stable form of living by which the faithful, following Christ more closely under the action of the Holy Spirit, are totally dedicated to God who is loved most of all, so that, having been dedicated by a new and special title to his honour, to the building up of the Church, and to the
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developed. While the monastic foundations were rural institutions marked by a retreat from secular society, the mendicants were urban foundations organized to engage secular city life and to meet some of its needs such as education and service to the poor. The five primary mendicant religious Order
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in the West in the 6th century, authored the most influential "rules" for religious living in their areas of the
Christian world ("rule" in this sense refers to a collection of precepts, compiled as guidelines for how to follow the spiritual life). They organized a common life with a daily schedule
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Catholic countries, depriving thousands of monks and nuns of the income that their communities held because of inheritances and forcing them to find a new way of living their religious life. On 8 December 1900, they were approved and recognised as
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God, some of the very devout men and women left the cities for the testings of the life in the desert that was meant to lead the individual back into a more intimate relationship with God, just like the wandering of the
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27:Type of lifestyle advocated by the Catholic Church
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1139:Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, canon 570
250:Examples of societies of apostolic life are the
1259:Gli Istituti di Vita Consacrata; cann. 573 730
412:, gave this form of religious living the name
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60:in a more exacting way. It includes those in
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374:Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches
359:Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches
331:'s post-synodal apostolic exhortation
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862:Catechism of the Catholic Church, 944
756:feast of the Presentation of the Lord
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510:in the East in the 4th century, and
365:choosing to have consecrated widows.
1312:of Pope John Paul II, 25 March 1996
1298:Section on the Consecrated Life in
839:"Forms of Consecrated Life | USCCB"
647:with simple vows. Under this rule,
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928:Code of Canon Law, canon 588 §1
880:Code of Canon Law, canon 573 §1
34:The hermitage of Maria Blut in
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1320:– "The Consecrated Life"
972:"Code of Canon Law, canon 710"
947:"Code of Canon Law, canon 607"
814:Religious institute (Catholic)
742:World Day for Consecrated Life
518:Almost all monasteries in the
194:Institutes of consecrated life
62:institutes of consecrated life
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611:Order of the Servants of Mary
414:eremitic (or eremitical) life
408:. The Greek word for desert,
200:Institute of consecrated life
76:, as well as those living as
3975:Catholic Church organisation
1847:List of religious institutes
1247:, article "Religious Orders"
1157:Code of Canon Law, canon 605
601:of the 13th century are the
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1001:November 4, 2011, at the
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603:Order of Friars Preachers
520:Eastern Catholic Churches
492:, a near-contemporary of
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1827:Foolishness for Christ
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502:cenobitic monasticism
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1486:Evangelical counsels
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298:, also known as the
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