Poverty is the state of being extremely poor. In keeping with the Carmelite tradition, the Carmelite monks profess the evangelical counsels by making vows of obedience, chastity, and poverty to God and to their neighbour.
Vows of poverty, chastity and obedience are now taken in some form by all formal congregations and orders of religious in the Roman Catholic Church.
Indeed, for religious men and women, vows of poverty, chastity and obedience are of the very essence of their vocation.
The vows of poverty, chastity and obedience which members of religious orders take form one single commitment to follow Christ in a particular way.
By our vow of poverty, we proclaim that Christ is the “pearl of great price,” the true treasure to which no earthly thing can compare.
The poverty of a Carmelite is a means for the apostolate.
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