Consecrated life questions

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Essentially anyone can make a personal consecration of themselves. It can be entirely private just between yourself and Our Lord+ and you don’t need to seek approval or permission from anyone else.
 
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Does anybody know the difference between making your own personal consecration to say, the Sacred Heart, and making a special consecration of yourself like in a Secular Institute?

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When you make a consecration within a secular institute, secular order or a third order, you are joining a community and committing yourself to living according to their rule and charism. Some are more formal than others. For example, secular orders are real orders, just like religious orders: a rule, constitutions, government, prayer life, community obligations and so forth. Secular institutes have private vows, unlike orders which are public. But they are part of a community with rules, obligations and a particular spirituality and mission. Most people in secular institutes live in community and are celibate.

Have a Blessed Christmas

Br. JR, OSF :christmastree1:
 
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