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During this part of the ceremony, I took the traditional vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, but I also spoke about how these three words have deeper meaning for me.
Poverty - I commit myself to a poverty of self, that my own will is given over to Divine will, my goal is one of surrender and a giving-away to others and to God.
Chastity - I commit to taking care of my body, recognizing it as the vessel through which God's work is done, building its strength & seeing that purification includes what I choose to take in.
Obedience - I commit to obedience of the present moment, that I may actually see and hear what is immediately around me, noticing all that is offered by the Divine.
The Reading:
Contemplation...is life itself, fully awake, fully active, fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of being. It is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent and infinitely abundant Source. Contemplation is, above all, awareness of the reality of that Source....Real contemplation is a sudden gift of awareness, an awakening to the Real within all that is real. A vivid awareness of infinite Being at the roots of our own limited being. An awareness of our contingent reality as received as a present from God, as a free gift of love. - Thomas Merton
poverty, chastity & obedience
During this part of the ceremony, I took the traditional vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, but I also spoke about how these three words have deeper meaning for me.
Poverty - I commit myself to a poverty of self, that my own will is given over to Divine will, my goal is one of surrender and a giving-away to others and to God.
Chastity - I commit to taking care of my body, recognizing it as the vessel through which God's work is done, building its strength & seeing that purification includes what I choose to take in.
Obedience - I commit to obedience of the present moment, that I may actually see and hear what is immediately around me, noticing all that is offered by the Divine.
The Reading:
Contemplation...is life itself, fully awake, fully active, fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of being. It is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent and infinitely abundant Source. Contemplation is, above all, awareness of the reality of that Source....Real contemplation is a sudden gift of awareness, an awakening to the Real within all that is real. A vivid awareness of infinite Being at the roots of our own limited being. An awareness of our contingent reality as received as a present from God, as a free gift of love. - Thomas Merton
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