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'Provida Mater Ecclesia'

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

Pius PP XII
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Just two years ago His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, issued the Apostolic Constitution which established canonically those groups of laity who had banded themselves together for the same purposes as those in religious Orders but without the external structure of religious life. This recognition of Lay or, as they are more commonly known, Secular Institutes is of considerable importance both for these groups of laity themselves and for the whole Church in keeping her contemporary, abreast of the times and adapting her apostolic mission to the changing conditions of modern life. Eeaders of LIFE OF THE SPIRIT have shown great interest in this document on this account and have Hi particular wanted to know the principles upon which this new form °f dedicated life rests. Many have evidently hoped that these principles would enable the whole gamut of religious life, both contemplative and active, to be reproduced under essentially lay conditions.

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Life of the Spirit , Volume 3 , Issue 32 , February 1949 , pp. 337 - 348
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Copyright © 1949 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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References

Cf. Pius XI, Eadio message ‘Ad Religiosos', 12.ii.1931. Acta Ap: Sed: 1931, p. 67.

Cf. Tertullian, Ad Uzorem 1, 4. P.L. 1, 1281; Ambrose, De Virginibus, 8, II P.L. 16, 202; Eucherius of Lyons. Exhort ad Monachos 1. P.L. 50, 865; Bernard. Ep. 449. P.L. 182, 641, and Apologia ad Guillelmum, 10. P.L. 182, 912.

Mt, 16, 24; 19, 10-2. 16-21; Mk 10, 17-21, 23-30; Lk 18, 18-22, 24-9; 20, 34-6. 1 Cor. 7, 25-35, 37-8, 40; Mt. 19, 27; Mk 10, 28; Lk 18, 28; Acts 21, 8-9; Apoc 14, 4-5.

Lk 8, 15; Acts 4, 32-5; 1 Cor. 7. Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. 3, 39. P.G. 20, 297.

Ignatius, Ad Polycarp. 5. P.G. 5, 724; Polycarp, Ad Philipp. 5, 3. P.G. 5, l009; Justin, Apologia. P.G. 6, 349; Clement of Alexandria, Strom. P.G. 8, 224; Hyppolytus, In Proverb. P.G.. 10, 628; de Virgine Cor, id 871-4; Origen, In Num. 2, 1; P.G. 12, 590; Methodius, Convivium decem virg. P.G. 18, 27-220; Tertullian, Ad Uxorem 1, 7-8. P.L. 1, 1286-7; de resurrect. 8. P.L. 2, 806; Cyprian, Ep. 62, HP. L. 4, 366; Testimon. adv. jud. 3, 74. P.L. 4, 771; Ambrose, de Viduis 2, 9. P.L. 16,250-1; Cassian, de tribus gen. monachorum 5. P.L. 49, 1094; Athenagoras. Legatio pro christianis P.G. 6, 965.

Acts 21, 8-10; cf. Ignatius, Ad Smyrn. 13. P.G. 5, 717; Ad Poly carp. 5. P.G. 5, 723; Tertullian, de virginibus velandis P.L. 2, 935; de erhortatione castitatis, 7. P.L. 2, 922; Cyprian, de habitu virginum 2, P.L. 4, 443; Jerome, Ep. 59, 4-6. P.L. 22, 582; Augustine, Sermo 214, P.L. 38, 1070; contra Faust. 5, 9. P.L. 42, 226.

Cf. Optatus, de schism, donat. 6. P.L. 11, 1071. Pontificale Rom. 2. de bened. et consec. virginum.

Const. ‘Conditae a Christo Ecclesiae', 8 dec. 1900; cf. Leo XIII Acta, 20, 317-27

2. Paral 19, 7; Rom 2, 11; Eph. 6, 9; Col. 3, 25.

Mt. 5, 48; 19, 12; Col 4, 12; James1, 4.

S.C. Episeoporum et Begularium dec. ‘Ecclesia Cath.’ 11. aug. 1889; cf. A.S.S, 23, 634.

ibid.