YOUCAT Question n. 145 - Part VII. 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 927)
All religious, whether exempt or not, take their place among the collaborators
of the diocesan bishop in his pastoral duty (Cf. CD 33-35; CIC, can. 591). From
the outset of the work of evangelization, the missionary "planting"
and expansion of the Church require the presence of the religious life in all
its forms (Cf. AG 18; 40). "History witnesses to the outstanding service
rendered by religious families in the propagation of the faith and in the
formation of new Churches: from the ancient monastic institutions to the
medieval orders, all the way to the more recent congregations" (John Paul
II, RMiss 69).
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 928)
"A secular institute is an institute of consecrated life in which the
Christian faithful living in the world strive for the perfection of charity and
work for the sanctification of the world especially from within" (CIC,
can. 710).
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