These are known as the 'evangelical counsels' as opposed to 'monastic vows' proper. In other traditions, such as the Poor Clares (the Franciscan Order) and the Dominican nuns, they take the threefold vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. In the branches of the Benedictine tradition, (Benedictines, Cistercians, Camaldolese, and Trappists, among others) nuns take vows of stability (that is, to remain a member of a single monastic community), obedience (to an abbess or prioress), and conversion of life (which includes poverty and celibacy).
Finally, she will petition to make her "perpetual profession", taking permanent, solemn vows. Temporary vows last one to three years, typically, and will be professed for not less than three years and not more than six. Upon completion of this period she may take her initial, temporary vows. If she, and the order, determine that she may have a vocation to the life, she receives the habit of the order (usually with some modification, normally a white veil instead of black, to distinguish her from professed members) and undertakes the novitiate, a period (that lasts one to two years) of living the life of the religious institute without yet taking vows. In general, when a woman enters a religious order or monastery she first undergoes a period of testing life for six months to two years called a postulancy. They were usually either oblates or members of the associated Third Order, often wearing a different habit or the standard woman's attire of the period. This last task is still often entrusted to women, called "externs", who live in the monastery, but outside the enclosure. They were formerly distinguished within the monastic community as "choir nuns", as opposed to lay sisters who performed upkeep of the monastery or errands outside the cloister.
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Īs monastics, nuns living within an enclosure historically commit to recitation of the full Liturgy of the Hours throughout the day in church, usually in a solemn manner. Traditionally, nuns are members of enclosed religious orders and take solemn religious vows, while sisters do not live in the papal enclosure and formerly took vows called "simple vows". In the Catholic tradition, there are many religious institutes of nuns and sisters (the female equivalent of male monks or friars), each with its own charism or special character. Vincent de Paul in the Portal of a Church, by Armand Gautier Benedict and foundress of the Benedictine nuns Hildegard of Bingen and her nuns Maria Johanna Baptista von Zweyer, Abbess of the Cistercian abbey of Wald Three Sisters of Charity of St. Nuns are most common in Mahayana Buddhism, but have more recently become more prevalent in other traditions.Ĭhristianity Catholicism St. In the Buddhist tradition, female monastics are known as Bhikkhuni, and take several additional vows compared to male monastics ( bhikkhus). In Christianity, nuns are found in the Roman Catholic, Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, and Anglican traditions, as well as other Christian denominations. The term is often used interchangeably with religious sisters who do take simple vows but live an active vocation of prayer and charitable work. A nun is a woman who vows to dedicate her life to God, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent.
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