To Seek the Face of God: The Cloister and Renewal of Women's Contemplative Monasteries

The apostolic constitution 'Vultum Dei Quaerere' exhorts those who embrace the highly esteemed vocation of women's contemplative life and regulates the vocation in twelve areas. This article focuses on the notion of the four traditionally recognized disciplines of cloister-papal clois...

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Main Author: Sheridan, Sean O. (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: School of Canon Law, The Catholic University of America [2016]
In: The jurist
Year: 2016, Volume: 76, Issue: 2, Pages: 415-446
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Catholic church, Pope (1939-1958 : Pius XII.), Verfasserschaft1, Sponsa Christi / Catholic church, Kongregation für die Institute des Geweihten Lebens und die Gemeinschaften des Apostolischen Lebens, Verfasserschaft1, Verbi sponsa / Catholic church, Pope (2013- : Franziskus), Verfasserschaft1, Vultum dei quaerere / Nun / Religious life / Canon law
IxTheo Classification:KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
KCB Papacy
SA Church law; state-church law
SB Catholic Church law
Further subjects:B Monastery
B Contemplation
B Order
B Women's religious order
B Religious life
B Catholic church Kongregation für die Institute des Geweihten Lebens und die Gemeinschaften des Apostolischen Lebens Verbi sponsa
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Summary:The apostolic constitution 'Vultum Dei Quaerere' exhorts those who embrace the highly esteemed vocation of women's contemplative life and regulates the vocation in twelve areas. This article focuses on the notion of the four traditionally recognized disciplines of cloister-papal cloister, constitutional cloister, monastic cloister and the discipline of cloister required of members of all religious institutes-and undertakes consideration of Vultum Dei Quaerere's new norms for women's contemplative monasteries with particular emphasis on the implications of these norms for the disciplines of papal and constitutional cloisters. Reflections are also offered to assist members of women's contemplative monasteries with discerning the will of God with regard to the form of cloister appropriate to the monastery as requested by Vultum Dei Quaerere
ISSN:0022-6858
Contains:Enthalten in: The jurist
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/jur.2016.0025