Chapter — 1917 Code of Canon Law
Chapter I: Of Secular Third Orders
Superseded as law in 1983 — read why this Code still matters. Each canon links to its 1983 counterpart.
§ 1. Secular tertiaries are those who, in the world, under the direction of some Order, according to the spirit of the same, strive to contend toward Christian perfection in a manner suited to secular life, according to rules approved for them by the Apostolic See.
§ 2. If a secular Third Order is divided into several associations, each of these legitimately constituted is called a sodality of tertiaries.
§ 1. Tertiarii saeculares sunt qui in saeculo, sub moderatione alicuius Ordinis, secundum eiusdem spiritum, ad christianam perfectionem contendere nituntur, modo saeculari vitae consentaneo, secundum regulas ab Apostolica Sede pro ipsis approbatas.
§ 2. Si tertius saecularis Ordo in plures associationes dividatur, harum quaelibet legitime constituta dicitur sodalitas tertiariorum.
§ 1. With the privilege granted to some Orders remaining firm, no religion can join a Third Order to itself.
§ 2. Even with an apostolic privilege granted, religious Superiors can indeed enroll particular persons in a Third Order, but they cannot validly erect a sodality of tertiaries without the consent of the local Ordinary according to the norm of can. 686, Sec. 3.
§ 3. Nor can they grant to sodalities erected by themselves the use of particular garments, to be worn in public sacred functions, without the special permission of the same Ordinary.
§ 1. Firmo privilegio nonnullis Ordinibus concesso, nulla religio potest tertium Ordinem sibi adiungere.
§ 2. Dato etiam apostolico privilegio, Superiores religiosi possunt quidem personas particulares tertio Ordini adscribere, sed nequeunt sodalitatem tertiariorum valide erigere sine consensu Ordinarii loci ad normam can. 686, § 3.
§ 3. Nec sodalitatibus a se erectis possunt concedere usum particularium vestium, in publicis sacris functionibus deferendarum, sine speciali eiusdem Ordinarii licentia.
§ 1. One who has pronounced vows either in perpetuity or for a time in some religion cannot at the same time belong to any Third Order, even if he had been enrolled in the same previously.
§ 2. If, released from vows, he has returned to the world, the former enrollment revives.
§ 1. Qui vota nuncupavit vel in perpetuum vel ad tempus in aliqua religione, nequit simul ad ullum tertium Ordinem pertinere, etsi eidem antea fuerit adscriptus.
§ 2. Si solutus a votis ad saeculum redierit, antiqua adscriptio reviviscit.
No sodality of tertiaries, without an apostolic indult, can enroll members of another Third Order who remain in the same; nevertheless it is lawful for individual members, for a just cause, to transfer either from one Third Order to another, or from one sodality to another sodality of the same Third Order.
Nulla tertiariorum sodalitas, sine apostolico indulto, adscribere potest sodales alius tertii Ordinis in eodem remanentes; singulis tamen sodalibus licet iusta de causa transire sive ab alio ad alium tertium Ordinem, sive ab alia ad aliam sodalitatem eiusdem tertii Ordinis.
Tertiaries can, but are not bound to, be present collegially at public processions, funerals, and other ecclesiastical functions; but if they are present, it is necessary that they advance with their insignia under their own cross.
Publicis processionibus, funeribus aliisque ecclesiasticis functionibus tertiarii possunt, sed non tenentur collegialiter interesse; at si intersint, cum suis insignibus sub cruce propria incedant necesse est.