When “perpetual vows” aren’t perpetual: Religious life & the power of the Church

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Christians are called to live out their life in Christ in particular ways called "vocations", such as marriage or priesthood - both of which are sacraments that involve the taking of vows. But not every vocation is a sacrament, and non-sacramental vocations can function very differently to sacramental ones. Learn more in this video.

Video sources:

Lumen gentium 41 (universal call to holiness): https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_c...

Code of Canon Law 1191-1198 (Vows explained): https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iu...

Code of Canon Law (Part III, Section I, Title II, Religious Institutes): https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iu...

Code of Canon Law 1088: https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iu....

Benedictine Vows: https://www.conceptionabbey.org/monas...
Dominican Vows: https://www.friarly.com/the-vowed-lif....

Franciscan Vows: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detai...

How to Become a Nun (the phases of formation): https://www.arlingtondiocese.org/voca...

Exclaustration: Not a matter of fidelity: https://www.globalsistersreport.org/r...

Trent. On the Sacrament of Matrimony. CANON X: https://www.papalencyclicals.net/coun...


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