religious order

The Carthusian Order, also called the Order of St. Bruno is a Christian religious order founded by St. Bruno in 1084. There exist both Carthusian monks and nuns. They follow their own Rule, called the Statutes, rather than the Rule of St Benedict (as is often erroneously reported) and combine eremitical and cenobitic monastic life. Carthusians are sometimes considered the highest order of the Catholic Church, in terms of strictness (this refers to the practice whereby one can only switch one's religious order if going to one that i ...

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The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace — also known by its original French name Cathédrale de Notre Dame de la Paix, its Portuguese variant Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Paz and its Hawaiian derivative Malia o ka Malu Hale Pule Nui — is a cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. It is the motherchurch of the Diocese of Honolulu and houses the cathedra of the Bishop of Honolulu in Honolulu, Hawaii. Formerly the motherchurch of the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands dedicated on A ...

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• Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace - Development
• Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace - Second Vatican Council
• Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace - Restoration
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In general, a nun is a female ascetic who chooses to voluntarily leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent. The term "nun" is applicable to Roman Catholics, Eastern Christians, Anglicans, Lutherans, and Buddhists, for example. The male equivalent of a nun is a monk. Nun - Catholic. In Roman Catholicism a nun is the term for a female monastic regular, equivalent to that of a male monk. In the Roman Catholic tradition, there are a number of differe ...

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Novitiate, alt. Noviciate, is the period that a novice or prospective member of a religious order who has not yet been admitted to vows has to undergo training in order to be found eligible or qualified for admission. A Novitiate is also housing exclusively devoted for the needs of novices. See also. novice ...

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A novice in Catholic law and tradition, is a prospective member of a religious order who is being tried and being proven for suitability of admission to a religious order of brothers, sisters or monks. Novices are not admitted to vows until they have successfully completed the prescribed period of training and proving, called the novitiate. Earlier, different orders followed their own rules governing the length and conditions of the novitiate. However, in response to the Protestant Reformation, the Council of Tren ...

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Saint Alphonsus Liguori (27 September 1696 – 1 August 1787) was a Doctor of the Catholic Church, spiritual writer, and founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer or Redemptorists, an influential religious order. Saint Alphonsus Liguori was born in Marianella near Naples, Italy on 27 September 1696. He was the first born of a rather large family belonging to the Neapolitan nobility. He received a broad education in the humanities, classical and modern languages, painting and music. He composed a Duetto on the Passio ...

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Saint Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, born Luis Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, popularly known as Padre Hurtado (January 22, 1901 – August 18, 1952), was a Chilean priest of the Roman Catholic Church religious order of the Society of Jesus. He was canonized on October 23, 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI, becoming his country's second saint. Saint Alberto Hurtado - Biography. Hurtado Cruchaga was born in Viña del Mar, and grew up fatherless and impoverished. His father died when he was only four years old. H ...

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Ad majorem Dei gloriam or ad maiorem Dei gloriam, also known by the abbreviation AMDG, is the motto of the Roman Catholic religious order called the Society of Jesus—its members known since the Catholic Reformation as the Jesuits. In Latin, the motto means "For the greater glory of God" and is believed to have been coined by the founder of the religious order, Saint Igna

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The Bene Gesserit (from Latin: see the origin of the name) are a key social, religious and political force in Frank Herbert's science fiction universe of Dune. They are a secretive sisterhood who train their bodies and minds through years of physical and mental conditioning, attaining powers and abilities that can seem almost magical. Due to their secretive nature and misunderstood abilities, outsiders often call them witches. Trained at the Mother School on Wallach IX, and later headquartered at the hidden world known a ...

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• Bene Gesserit - The training of the Bene Gesserit
• Bene Gesserit - Training from childhood
• Bene Gesserit - Spice Agony
• Bene Gesserit - Bene Gesserit Government
• Bene Gesserit - The powers of the Bene Gesserit
• Bene Gesserit - Other Memory
• Bene Gesserit - The Voice
• Bene Gesserit - Petit perception
• Bene Gesserit - Truthsaying
• Bene Gesserit - Simulflow
• Bene Gesserit - Prana Bindu training and the Weirding Way
• Bene Gesserit - Internal Organic-Chemical Control
• Bene Gesserit - Considerable Sexual Talents
• Bene Gesserit - Weaknesses of the Bene Gesserit
• Bene Gesserit - Addiction to the melange
• Bene Gesserit - Abomination
• Bene Gesserit - The litany against fear
• Bene Gesserit - Appearance in prequel novels
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The Rule of St Benedict by Benedict of Nursia (fl. 6th century) is a book of precepts written for monks living in community under the authority of an abbot. Since about the 7th century it has been adopted with equal success by communities of women. During the 1500 years of its existence, it has become the leading guide in Western Christianity for monastic living in community, both in Roman Catholicism and (since the time of the Reformation) in the Anglican and Protestant traditions. The spirit of St Benedict's Rule is summed up in the motto of the Benedictine Confederation: pax ("peace") a ...

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• Rule of St Benedict - Secular significance
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The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu/Jesu (S.J.) in Latin) is a Christian religious order of the Roman Catholic Church in direct service to the Pope. Its members, known as Jesuits since the Protestant Reformation, have been called "Footsoldiers of the Pope" in part because the Society's founder, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a soldier before his conversion. Today, Jesuits number over 20,000 and comprise the largest religious order in the Catholic Church. Jesuit priests and brothers are engaged in mini ...

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• Society of Jesus - Suppression and Restoration
• Society of Jesus - Jesuits today
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Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480 – 547), born at Nursia (Norcia), Italy, was the founder of western monasticism. Many of those monastic men and women belong to a Christian religious order named in his honor, the Order of Saint Benedict. The only authentic life of Benedict of Nursia is that contained in the second book of St. Gregory's Dialogues. It is more of a character sketch than a biography and consists, for the most part, of a number of miraculous incidents, which, although they illustrate the life of the s ...

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The Ursulines are a religious order founded at Brescia, Italy by St. Angela of Merici in November 1535, primarily for the education of girls and the care of the sick and needy. Ursulines - History. St. Angela spent 17 years leading a group of women known as The Company of St. Ursula, who regularly met for conferences and devotional practices, but did not live together. They were recognized in 1544 by Pope Paul III; in 1572 Pope Gregory XIII, at the instance of St. Charles Borromeo, Cardinal Archbisho ...

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The Order of the Holy Trinity and Captives called also the Trinitarian Order is a religious order founded at Cerfroid France around 1194 by St. John of Matha, a native of Provence, and a French hermit, Felix of Valois, to redeem Christian captives. The order was sanctioned by Innocent III; with their own proper Rule (called now The Rule of St. John De Matha - which was approved 1198); the diet was of great austerity; and the habit; white, with a red and blue cross on the breast. At one time the order possessed 250 houses, and i ...

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There is also a general article on Religion In the lexicon of the Church, especially the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox, religious as a noun usually refers to a member of a religious order of monks, nuns, friars, clerics regular, or other individuals who take the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience (the evangelical counsels). Neither of those groups should be identified as clergy, which in Ca ...

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Blessed Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916). Born in Strasbourg on September 15, 1858, he grew up in an aristocratic family and entered the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in 1876. He later was a French army officer in Algeria but left the army in 1882 and went as an explorer to Morocco. In 1890 he joined the Trappist order, but left in 1897 to follow an as yet undefined religious vocation. He returned to Algeria and lived a virtually eremetical life in an isolated Tuareg area. He learned the language and worked on a dictionary a ...

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Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary is a Roman Catholic religious order of brothers, priests, and nuns. The priests of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, are also known as the Picpus Fathers, in honor of Picpus Street in Paris, France where the order was founded in 1800. Their post-nominal letters, ss.cc., are the Latin initials for Sacrorum Cordium, i.e. Sacred Hearts. Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary - French Revolution beginnings. The ...

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The Carmelites OF Mary Immaculate is an Eastern Catholic religious order for men. It belongs to the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. It was the first such religious order within India. The first monastery of the order was established on May 11, 1831 in Mannanam, Kerala, India. But it quickly grew. The order was founded by Father Thomas Palackal, Father Thomas Porukara and Blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara. It is dedicated to the renewal of church life by the training of pr ...

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Catholic schools are educational ministries of the Catholic Church. These schools develop their students through participation in the sacramental life of the Church, study of religion and theology, a full curriculum in secular subjects, and a variety of extra-curricular activities. Religion is included in the learning experience, and school uniforms are often a requirement for students. In some boards, there are requirements that the student must become Catholic to attend a Catholic school. Catholic school - Austr ...

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The old orders had no provincial superiors; even when the monasteries were united to form congregations, the arch-abbot of each congregation was in the position of a superior general whose powers were limited to particular cases, almost like the powers of an archbishop over the dioceses of his suffragans. Provincial superiors are found in the congregations of comparatively recent formation, which began with the mendicant orders. The Holy See hesitated for a long time before allowing the division of congregations with simple vows, especially congregations of women into different provinces as a regular institution ...

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Provincial superior, Provincial superior - History, Provincial superior - Politics, Provincial superior - List of famous provincial superiors, Provincial superior - Source

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