A Topic of Moral Theology

Vow of Obedience

The religious vow of obedience: its object and limits, and the sins against it.

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obeying a superior (ed.)

In the index as Obedience · EXAMPLE: we should profit by the good example and give it to others · Religious · Exemption · Regulars · Vow of poverty · OBEDIENCE, the good that it brings us · Disobedience · Priest · Counsel of poverty · Prelates · Regular · Religious Superior · Actions: perfection consists in performing our actions well · Conditional matrimony · Law · License by which the vice of proprietorship is warded off · Obedience of clerics · Obligation of chastity of a cleric in major order · RULES: obedience to the Rule · Viaticum · Vow · Abstinence · Almsgiving

In the manuals

A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries

Vol. II, Bk. I, Pt. III, Chapter VI. Vow of Obedience, nn. 1 & 2 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. III, Pt. III, Sect. II, Ch. I, Art. II, § III. On the Vow of Obedience, nn. 1253, 1254 & 1255 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. III, On the Particular Obligati…, VII. On the Vow of Obedience, nn. 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302 & 303 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.

Vol. II, Treatise on Particular Sta…, Part Third. On the Religio…, Ch. III, Article III. On the Vow of Obedience, nn. ¶1, 168, 169, 170, 171 & 172 (21 passages — hover a number to read it)

Theologia Moralis: Principles — Responses — Counsels

Vol. III, First Book: On Persons in …, Tr. II, Ch. II, § 3. Obligations of Vows, nn. ¶1 & 125–140 (17 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology

Vol. I, Tr. X, Pt. III, Ch. III, Article III. On the Vow of Obedience, nn. 618, 619, 619, Q. 2, 619, Q. 3, 619, Q. 4, 619, Q. 5, 619, Q. 6, 620, 621, 622, 623, 624, 625, 626 & 627 (15 passages — hover a number to read it)

Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium

Diss. V, Chapter V — Community being taken away, neither the vow of obedience nor the observance of regular discipline can long stand, nn. I, II, III, IV, V & VI (6 passages — hover a number to read it)

Diss. V, Chapter IX — On the vow of chastity and of obedience, nn. I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII & IX (9 passages — hover a number to read it)

The True Spouse of Jesus Christ

Chapter VII: Interior Mortification, or Abnegation of Self-love—Obedience, nn. ¶707, ¶708, ¶709, ¶714, ¶715, ¶718, ¶722, ¶725, ¶726, ¶727, ¶730, ¶731, ¶732, ¶733, ¶734, ¶739, ¶740, ¶741, ¶744, ¶749, ¶750, ¶751, ¶752, ¶753, ¶754, ¶757, ¶761, ¶762, ¶763, ¶766, ¶767, ¶770, ¶775, ¶776, ¶777, ¶781, ¶782, ¶783, ¶784, ¶788, ¶794, ¶795, ¶796, ¶797, ¶801, ¶805, ¶806, ¶808, ¶810, ¶811, ¶813, ¶814, ¶815, ¶816, ¶821, ¶823, ¶824, ¶825, ¶827, ¶828, ¶831, ¶832, ¶837, ¶838, ¶839, ¶840, ¶842, ¶844, ¶847, ¶848, ¶849, ¶850, ¶853, ¶854, ¶857, ¶858, ¶859, ¶862, ¶867, ¶868, ¶870, ¶871, ¶872, ¶873, ¶876, ¶881, ¶882, ¶887, ¶891, ¶897, ¶898, ¶901 & ¶902 (93 passages — hover a number to read it)

Cases of Conscience, Proposed by Cardinal de Lugo, by Fr. Beniamino Elbel, by Fr. Ioannes Petrus Gury and by Other Authors, and Resolved (Casus conscientiae)

107. On Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience, n. 14 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues

Tr. IV, Disputation II: On the Rel…, Sect. I, Question III: Whether, and how, this state is holy, nn. 105–133 (29 passages)

Tr. IV, Disputation III: On the Vow of Obedience, n. 1 — The Seraphic Doctor splendidly illustrates OBEDIENCE under a twofold title, as the school of the Savior, and the ladder of salvation, in Diaeta salut. tit. 3. cap. 2. where he assigns the proofs and the degrees of this h… Read in context →

Tr. IV, Disputation III: On the Vo…, Question I: Whether the vow of obedience is chief among the religious vows, nn. 1, 2 & 3 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. IV, Disputation III: On the Vo…, Question II: What obedience is promised in religion, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 (12 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. IV, Disputation III: On the Vo…, Question III: Whether religious are bound to obey prelates in all things, nn. 1–34 (34 passages)

Tr. IV, Disputation III: On the Vo…, Question IV: Whether one doubting whether the thing commanded is lawful is bound to obey the prelate, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11 (11 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. IV, Disputation III: On the Vo…, Question V: Whether all the statutes of religious orders bind under sin, nn. 1–16 (16 passages)

Moral Enchiridion, Comprising Select Decrees and Definitions of the Holy See, of Ecumenical Councils and of the Sacred Roman Congregations (Enchiridion Morale), Fourth Edition

Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905), On Particular States, n. 300 — Spiritual Direction, the Vow and Virtue of Obedience. “65. Superiors must be obeyed in the exterior, and the extent of the vow of obedience of Religious reaches only to the exterior. But in the interior the matter is otherwise, where God alone and the director enter.—66. A … Read in context →

Treated under the broader heading Special Duties of Religious — McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions · Decretals of Gregory IX · Liber Sextus — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)