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What is the meaning of living a consecrated life?
Living a consecrated life typically means dedicating oneself wholly to a spiritual or religious path.
Verse 2: “Say to the Israelites . . . Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the Lord your God. Keep my decrees and follow them. I am the Lord who makes you holy
Leviticus 20: 1, 7, 8
What is the difference between a priest, a nun, a sister, and a religious woman?
• Priest: Ordained male minister (in Catholicism and Orthodoxy) who administers sacraments and leads a congregation.
• Nun: Woman living a cloistered, contemplative life with solemn vows.
• Sister: Woman engaged in active ministry with simple vows.
• Religious Woman: General term for women who have taken religious vows, including both nuns and sisters.
“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you besides.”
Matthew 6:33
Verse 1: “I exhort you therefore, brothers, through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.”
Romans 12:1
Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
Romans 6:13
Thus, as those everywhere who adore in holy activity, the laity consecrate the world itself to God, everywhere offering worship by the holiness of their lives. For all their works, prayers, and apostolic undertakings, family and married life, daily work, relaxation of mind and body, if they are accomplished in the Spirit--indeed even the hardships of life if patiently borne--all these become spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Lumen Gentium
The spiritual life, however, is not limited solely to participation in the liturgy. The Christian is indeed called to pray with his brethren, but he must also enter into his chamber to pray to the Father, in secret; yet more, according to the teaching of the Apostle, he should pray without ceasing. We learn to offer ourselves to God, especially in the divine sacrifice of the Eucharist."
Sacrosanctum Concilium