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  • 15 - Professed Religious Life

  • from Part II - Conciliar Themes and Reception
  • Edited by Richard R. Gaillardetz, Boston College, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Vatican II
    Published online:
    14 May 2020
    Print publication:
    28 May 2020, pp 266-281

  • Summary

    The council’s teaching on professed religious life wished to preserve the distinctive role of professed religious men and women in the church while moving beyond a pre-conciliar emphasis on the “states of evangelical perfection.” This chapter will consider in particular the council’s treatment of this topic in Lumen Gentium and Perfectae Caritatis.

  • The Universal Call to Holiness: Engaging with the Secular

  • Peter Phillips
  • Journal:
    New Blackfriars / Volume 95 / Issue 1059 / September 2014
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 January 2024, pp. 579-592
    Print publication:
    September 2014
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  • The recent movement of apparent restorationism seems to suggest that the Church represents an enclave where people can find a holy place, a narrowing of the universal call to holiness that was the mandate of Vatican II. This is not a task for Christians alone; it is a call for all people to rediscover the true nature of the human being in the world. Such a profoundly worldly vocation makes a radical demand for a holiness grounded on baptism and the charisms with which the Holy Spirit endows the people of God. ‘To be secular is the special characteristic of the laity’ (Lumen gentium, 3). There is a an important rediscovery of the sacred taking place here: Christians are called to transform the world in and through God in a genuine and secular spirituality.