YOUCAT Question n. 145 - Part II. Why does Jesus want there to be Christians who live their whole lives in poverty, unmarried chastity, and obedience?
(Youcat
answer - repeated) God is love. He longs for our love also. One form of loving
surrender to God is to live as Jesus did — poor, chaste, and obedient. Someone
who lives in this way has head, heart, and hands free for God and neighbor.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 916)
The state of consecrated life is thus one way of experiencing a "more
intimate" consecration, rooted in Baptism and dedicated totally to God
(Cf. PC 5). In the consecrated life, Christ's faithful, moved by the Holy
Spirit, propose to follow Christ more nearly, to give themselves to God who is
loved above all and, pursuing the perfection of charity in the service of the
Kingdom, to signify and proclaim in the Church the glory of the world to come
(Cf. CIC, can. 573).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment)
In every age individual
Christians let themselves be completely taken over by Jesus, so that “for the
sake of the kingdom of heaven” (Mt 19:12) they give everything away for God—even such wonderful gifts as
their own property, self-determination, and married love. This life according
to the evangelical counsels in poverty, chastity, and obedience shows all
Christians that the world is not everything. Only an encounter with the divine
Bridegroom “face to face” will ultimately make a person happy.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 917)
"From the God-given seed of the counsels a wonderful and wide-spreading
tree has grown up in the field of the Lord, branching out into various forms of
the religious life lived in solitude or in community. Different religious
families have come into existence in which spiritual resources are multiplied
for the progress in holiness of their members and for the good of the entire
Body of Christ" (LG 43).
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