CHAPTER 10
The Religious Life is a state of life. It "is a divine gift which the Church has received from her Lord and which she ever preserves with the help of his grace" (Lumen Gentium, 43). Although the term: religious life is absent directly from Christ's teaching, it is however obvious that the religious life today springs from his life and ministry. For this reason, the religious life is today inseparably attached to the Church. For the Second Vatican Council, "Although the religious state constituted by the profession of the evangelical counsels does not belong to the hierarchical structure of the Church, nonetheless it belongs inseparably to her life and holiness" (Lumen Gentium, 44). The religious are consecrated persons. By consecration, they become persons that are given to God without conditions. More concretely, it makes them "living memories of Jesus' way of being and acting" of his obedience, poverty and chastity. It transforms the religious into signs and communicators of God's love for humanity. Amaiz, Jose. (2013). Kanu Anthony. (2015) places the consecrated persons as members of the Religious Institutes and Societies of Apostolic life. The religious, both ...
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