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A solemn vow is a certain vow ("a deliberate and free promise made to God about a possible and better good") taken by an at least 18 year old person individual...

A vow (Lat. votum, vow, promise; see vote) is a promise or oath. A vow is used as a promise that is solemn rather than casual. Marriage vows are binding...

their members to solemn vows; most religious congregations are only authorized to take simple vows. Even in congregations with solemn vows, some members...

religious order is a community of consecrated life with members that profess solemn vows. They are classed as a type of religious institute. Subcategories of...

in that members take simple vows, whereas members of religious orders take solemn vows. Until the 16th century, the vows taken in any of the religious...

describe the taking of an oath, to making a solemn vow. The word comes from Anglo-Saxon āþ judicial swearing, solemn appeal to deity in witness of truth or...

cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy law, and this is my solemn vow. Version B is identical except for the clause "to love and to cherish"...

terminally ill or poor. Final Vows for the fully professed follow upon tertianship, wherein the Jesuit pronounces perpetual solemn vows of poverty, chastity,...

religious orders and take solemn religious vows, while sisters do not live in the papal enclosure and formerly took vows called "simple vows". As monastics, nuns...

vow to serve always the poorest of the poor). The traditional distinction between simple and solemn vows no longer has any juridical effect. Solemn vows...

phrase "I swear" refer to a solemn vow. For those who choose not to, the alternative terms "solemn promise" or "solemnly affirm" and "I promise" or "I...

server (above) Side altar Simple vow – any vow which is not a solemn vow Sister Society of apostolic life Solemn vow Stoup, Holy water – see: Holy water...

be done either concurrently with or some time after the profession of solemn vows. Among Carthusian nuns, there was the unique practice of these virgins...

Records, a jazz record label in Milan, Italy Schema (monasticism) [ru], a solemn vow of asceticism of a monk in Orthodox monasticism Great Schema, the highest...

communities were divided into two groups: regular orders with solemn vows and congregations of simple vows. In 1215, in the Fourth Lateran Council, Pope Innocent...

be solemn or simple, perpetual or temporary. The Fourth Vow of the Order of Mercy is a Solemn Vow. In accordance with the general principle of a vow, it...

came in, King Ingjald stood up, grasped a large bull's horn, and made a solemn vow to enlarge his dominions by one half, towards all the four corners of...

Chapter II, "Now the method of profession is twofold. One is a solemn ceremony, like a solemn vow. The other is private, and can be made to the devil at any...

revolves around women who suffer abuse and escape their hometown, making a solemn vow: if they are truly innocent, snow will fall even in the summertime. Chong...

recovery of the investment. After this unexpected debacle, Jeetendra made a solemn vow never to return into filmmaking again. Despite the disastrous response...