"emergency vows"

[ANGELIC_PEACE]

i have read several times before that a novice that is seriously ill…or in danger of death will be permitted to make their perpetual vows (or if they aren’t in a state to say it it is read over them…

st bernadette herself was a novice and they thought that she was in danger of death so they let her make her perpetaul vows…then she recovered…

my question is

if the novice recovers are the vows still legitimate…even though they are still a novice …are they looked upon as having made full perpetual vows…or can they be dismissed and sent home at any time (i have always heard that postulants and novices can be sent home, but once you have made your perpetual vows, you are there for life)

sorry if this doesn’t make any sense

ANGELIC PEACE

 

[1234]

i have read several times before that a novice that is seriously ill…or in danger of death will be permitted to make their perpetual vows (or if they aren’t in a state to say it it is read over them…

st bernadette herself was a novice and they thought that she was in danger of death so they let her make her perpetaul vows…then she recovered…

my question is

if the novice recovers are the vows still legitimate…even though they are still a novice …are they looked upon as having made full perpetual vows…or can they be dismissed and sent home at any time (i have always heard that postulants and novices can be sent home, but once you have made your perpetual vows, you are there for life)

sorry if this doesn’t make any sense

ANGELIC PEACE

I don’t know if people do this anymore.

 

[Cloisters]

Yes, they will do this if the situation is extenuating.

If the novice recovers, they return to the novitiate. The vows would be binding/effective only if they died.

In all our proposed Cloister Outreach charisms, such an option will definitely be open.

Blessings,
Cloisters

 

[Jahaza]

There’s information on this practice circa 1911 in the Catholic Encyclopedia under “Religious Profession”:
Theologians generally teach that, when made in a state of grace, this absolute surrender of self procures for the religious a remission of all the penalties due to past sins. The generally accepted opinion, by which religious profession was compared to a new baptism, induced St. Pius V to permit novices in houses of Dominican nuns to make their profession when in danger of death even before completing their years of novitiate (Constitution “Summi sacerdotii”, 23 August, 1570). This has since been extended to all religious orders; but restoration to health deprives the profession made under such circumstances of all canonical effects.