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Adaptation in France—IV

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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The examination we have made of each of the three vows reveals at least in principle the various domains where — problems of adaptation might be, and in fact are, posed, aat we have noticed is sufficient to indicate in what directions their possible solutions lie.

Nevertheless, before concluding it would be interesting to consider certain of the most important dimensions of the religious life. As we have already spoken of observances in dealing with virginity, it will be enough to consider rapidly three kinds of cases Particularly instructive: first of all prayer and silence; in the second place formation and intellectual work; and finally questions of hierarchy and government. Prayer And Silence In all that concerns prayer and silence, it is clear that the life of the ancelles, or of any nun more or less involved in the world, as also the life of sisters in a secular institute, does not profit by the guarantees offered by a stable existence in a convent.

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Copyright © 1955 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers