Instruction

Poverty, Chastity and Obedience

in the

Congregation of the Mission

GENERAL  INDEX

 

Letter of Father Maloney, C.M.

INTRODUCTION

 

CHAPTER 1    JESUS CHRIST, THE RULE  OF THE MISSION

 

1. St. Vincent de Paul: The discovery of Christ in the poor and the poor in Christ

2.  Jesus Christ is the rule of the Mission

3.  In fidelity to St. Vincent

Some Texts That May Serve for Meditation

CHAPTER II    STABILITY:  FIDELITY IN  EVANGELIZING THE POOR

I. Introduction

2.The present situation

3. The vow of stability

4. The virtue of fidelity

5. Living stability

 

Some Texts That May Serve for Meditation

 

CHAPTER III    CHASTITY: CELIBATE LOVE

 

I.   Introduction

2. The present situation

3. The vow of chastity: celibate love

4. Celibate love

5. Living chastity

 

Some Texts That May Serve for Meditation

 

CHAPTER IV   POVERTY: SOLIDARITY WITH THE POOR

1.Introduction 

2.The present situation

3. The vow of Poverty

4. The virtue of poverty

5. Fundamental Statute on Poverty          

6. Living poverty

Some Texts That May Serve for Meditation

 

CHAPTER V   OBEDIENCE: DISCERNMENT FOR MISSION

 

1. Introduction

2. The present situation

3. The vow of obedience

4. The virtue of obedience

5. Living obedience

 

Some Texts That May Serve for Meditation

 

CHAPTER VI  A BRIEF HISTORY OF VOWS IN THE CM

1. The experience of the founder and the first missionaries

2. Years of searching and clarification (1639-1640)

3.  Ordinances of the Archbishop of Paris (1641)

4.  The Assembly of 1651

5.   'Ex Commissa Nobis’- The Papal approval of vows (1655)

6.  'Alias Nos' - The Fundamental Statute on Poverty (1659)

7.  Subsequent historical questions

 

CHAPTER VII      CANONICAL ASPECTS OFTHE VOWS IN THE CONGREGATION OF THE MISSION

 

1. The nature of our vows

2. Incorporation

3. Admission to vows

4. Conditions for admission to vows

5. Certification of the pronouncing of vows

6. Dispensation from vows

 

FORMULAS FOR VOWS AND ATTESTATION OF VOWS

 

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