secular institute

They later became and remain a secular institute with no particular link to the Assumptionists.

While living a life of perfection, they did not take vows, remaining a secular institute to avoid being considered a religious society by the government.

For a related Roman Catholic reference, see secular institute.

In 1950, the Jesuits did not see running the secular institute as compatible with belonging to the Society of Jesus.

In 1967, he founded the Family Service Corps, a secular institute devoted to charitable work for the sick, elderly and needy.

Institute, Secular - see: Secular institute (below)

With Balthasar she co-founded a secular institute, the Johannesgemeinschaft (Community of St. John).

Each institute of consecrated life (religious institute or secular institute) also has its own calendar, with variations from the General Calendar.

An Institutum clericorum saecularium in communi viventium is a secular institute for priests who want to live an apostolic life in community.

They include, among others, Caritas Christi, The Grail, and the Servite Secular Institute.

Unlike members of an institute of consecrated life (religious institute or secular institute), members of apostolic societies do not make religious vows.

A secular institute is an institute of consecrated life whose members living in the world, striving for the perfection of charity and seeking to help to sanctify the world, especially from within.

In England, the Grail has the status of a secular institute within the Catholic Church, an association of lay people making a permanent commitment to a particular form of Christian life.

At the same time, Gemelli undertook many spiritual activities, helping to found the secular institute of the Missionaries of the Kingship of Christ, established by the Venerable Armida Barelli, a Christian social activist.

In 1947 the Catholic Church, under Pope Pius XII, recognized the growing strength of lay Catholic spirituality and created a category of secular institute in canon law to provide committed groups of lay people some formal status.

In the Roman Catholic Church, a secular institute is an organization of individuals who are consecrated persons - professing the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty and obedience - while living in the world, unlike members of a religious institute who live in community.

A group of people who intend to become a recognized religious institute, secular institute or society of apostolic life will normally come together at first as an association of the faithful, while awaiting the decision of the bishop, after consulting the Holy See, to establish them in the desired form.