#secular institutes

[forward-in-joy]

[mongrelmutt]

Just submitted my letter of request to make my first temporary commitments*, and the Council will discuss my request, along with my formation guides' comments, at their meeting during this coming week 🙏

*Fun Church history time! Most members of the Company of St. Ursula don't take vows because when the Company was originally founded in the 1500s, if a woman took vows Church law said she had to be fully cloistered, which defeated the entire point of secular consecration. So instead St. Angela wrote in our Rule that we make "firm commitments" to the Evangelical Counsels of poverty, celibate chastity, and obedience. (OK technically the Italian most directly translates as "intentions," but the connotation of "intention" in English is too wishy-washy for what we're doing so we say "commitments")