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CHAPTER II
RELIGIOUS VOWS

ìI will ever sing praises to your name, as I pay my vows
day after dayî (Ps. 61:8).

Vows - Our Response to the Covenant of Love

20 God the Father has instituted a new covenant of love with
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humanity by giving it His merciful love through Jesus, His
Son. The consecration made in baptism as our response to
this covenant is rendered more firm, visible and perfect
through our vowed religious consecration, made in response
to His call and inspiration. Thus we make our response to
Godís covenant a living reality in the Church, a reality
pleasing to God and acceptable to His people, as through it
we consecrate ourselves totally to the compassionate love
of Jesus and transmit that love to the human race. 2
21 Our religious vows are but means enabling us to participate
in the sacrifice of Jesus who gave his response to the merciful
love of the Father through his self-oblation on Calvary.
Through them we participate in the praise and glory that
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Jesus rendered to His Father. Together with that, we also
participate in his apostolate of the compassionate love of
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the Father, in fulfillment of which he broke his body and
shed his blood for us, the orphaned and abandoned. Thus
through the profession of the three vows in the Church we
realize and translate into deeds the religious vision of our
Founding Father that the St. Josephís Congregation should
be an instrument destined to the glory of God and
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transmission of His merciful love.
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