poverty vows
Forsaking material wealth
Poverty vows are formal promises to renounce personal property and live without material wealth, typically taken by members of religious orders.
Catholic monks and nuns take vows of poverty alongside vows of chastity and obedience.
The commitment varies by order—some permit modest personal possessions while others require complete renunciation: She took poverty vows when she entered the convent.
- monasticismCloistered religious living
- monastic lifeReligious community living
- religious orderVowed spiritual community
- holy ordersSacrament conferring clergy status
- almsgivingGiving to the needy
simplicity · vow of chastity · humility · communal living · asceticism · detachment · renunciation · worldly goods · intentional living · self-denial · vow of obedience · vow of silence · altruism · hermitage · minimalism · charity · Mother Teresa · spiritual discipline
- Tertiariestertiaries, oblates, rule of life, formation process, constitutions
- monasticismabbeys, abbey, abbots, abbot, cloister
- asceticismabstinence, celibacy, ascetic, austerities, chastity
- monasteriesabbey, abbeys, abbot, abbots, abbess
- Ascetic WritingsDesert Fathers, Rule of St. Benedict, monastic rule
- abstinencesobriety, celibacy, chastity, teetotalism, fasting
poverty vowswealth accumulation
Process of gathering assets
materialism · acquisitiveness · avarice · greed · consumerism
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