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Vow of obedience
Religious oath made by some Catholics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In the Catholic Church, the vow of obedience is one of the three vows of professing to live according to the evangelical counsels. It forms part of the religious vows that are made both by members of the religious institutes and diocesan hermits.
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This is stipulated in
- 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 follows:
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