What were the three vows nuns and monks took?

Answer 1

The first vow was called the vow of poverty. The vow of poverty meant you had to give up all personal possessions. The second vow was a vow to stay single. This vow was called chastity. The third vow was a vow to promise to obey the church and the monastery. This was called the vow of obedience.

Answer 2

The three vows of religious life are: poverty, chastity, and obedience.

Poverty means that a religious does not own personal property. The religious owns all in common with the community, eats at a common table, contributes any salary or remuneration for work to a common fund, and lives in a simple manner befitting one living in evangelical poverty.

Chastity means that a religious lives with purity, both in body and mind, with respect to sexual activity and desire. This precludes not only marriage and sexual activity belonging to marriage, but also unchaste attitudes and activities which inflame venerial desires.

Obedience means that a religious respects and obeys the righteous authority of a religious superior as the inspired will of the Holy Spirit spoken through the religious superior. This doesn't mean that obedience is absolute or mindless, as that of a slave. Rather religious obedience is discerning, yet docile to the wisdom of the Spirit expressed in a well-ordered religious community.

These vows are ordered to an individual's journey toward Christian perfection, and as such, not only impose the obligation of living these "evangelical councils" faithfully, but also provide divine help and grace to live them out well.

These vows differ from the promises made at ordination by priests (both religious and secular). Ordination promises are primarily ordered to the good of the Church. In either case, it is a serious matter to break a vow or a promise.

Needless to say, all Christians benefit from observance of the virtues of poverty, chastity, and obedience, even if not formally vowed to them.

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The quick answer is "Poverty, Chastity and Obedience". Those are the vows taken by most members of religious orders. Particular orders (ic. Cistercians of Strict Observance) can include others, as well.

Poverty, chastity and obedience.

Answer 3

Same as a Catholic priest

Obedience- to God, the Church and Pope

Chastity- No sex nor involvement in any sexual activity

Poverty- To remain free from a material filled life, to fast and poor

Answer 4

Poverty: owning nothing in one's own name

Chastity: giving oneself to God completely by living a celibate life for the sake of the Kingdom

Obedience: promising to serve God and neighbor in one's religious community

Answer 5

Your question is very confused, priests do NOT make vows unless they are religious and then they make their vows long before their Ordination. Nuns are never "ordained", only men are ordained. Religious men and women when becoming monks and nuns make solemn vows, this is called profession not ordination. Religious is a technical term in the Catholic Church which refers to a member of a Religious Order, like a monk, friar, nun, sister, etc. Religious make vows, that is the nature of their vocation and they make them whether they become a priest or not, in the matter of sisters and nuns, there is no possibility of them becoming priests.

Priests must have made a promise of celibacy (which is a solemn promise not to attempt marriage) but they make the promise before they are ordained to the diaconate, unless they are ordained according to the Extraordinary Form in which case, they make that promise before they are ordained to the subdiaconate.

Priests also make a promise (not a vow) of obedience to their bishop and his successors. Those are the only two promises that a priest will have to make before he is ordained.

A religious priest, however, must already be solemnly professed in his order before he makes his solemn profession. Those men, along with women who are in religious orders make three vows or promises, it's a little technical, but basically there are two different sets:

Religious who are in the Benedictine Tradition make three vows:

1) Stability

2) Conversatio Morum (roughly conversion of manners)

3) Obedience

Religious who are not in the Benedictine Tradition usually do not make vows, but promises, which may be simple, solemn, or perpetual. The three promises, which is what the person asking the question is probably looking for are:

1) Poverty

2) Chastity

3) Obedience

Jesuits, different in all things, take a fourth vow of special, immediate, and unquestioning obedience to the reigning Holy Father.

Answer 6

Roman Catholic AnswerBenedictine Monks take three vows: Stability, Conversion of Manners, and Obedience, Conversion of Manners includes Poverty and Chastity. Other religious take (at least) three vows: Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience. Other Clergy only take one, and it is not a vow, but a promise, that of Obedience to their Bishop. They also make a promise to remain chaste or celibate (they cannot marry). Non religious clergy (known as diocesian priests) do not make any vows, and do not a make a promise of poverty.

Answer 7

The 3 vows are, vow of chastity, Vow of Poverty and Vow of obedience.

Answer 8

poverty chastity obedience