Who are they who live in a state of perfection?
Those who are bishops and those who are religious (CLXXXIV. 5).
Why are bishops in a state of perfection?
Because bishops at the moment when they take upon themselves the pastoral office, oblige themselves to give their lives to the service of their flocks; and this assumption of office is attended with the solemnity of consecration (CLXXXIV. 6).
What makes religious to be in a state of perfection?
The fact that under the form of perpetual vows they oblige themselves to give up the things of the world of which they might lawfully have made use, in order to occupy themselves more freely with the things of God; and they make these vows with a certain solemnity of profession or of blessing (CLXXXIV. 5).
Of these two states of perfection which is the more perfect?
That of bishops (CLXXXI V. 7).
Why is the state of bishops more perfect than that of religious?
Because bishops in virtue of their state must possess the perfection which religious by their state strive to acquire (CLXXXIV. 7).
How do religious by their state tend toward perfection?
Religious by their state tend to acquire perfection in so far as by the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, they are placed outside the danger of committing sin and are happily constrained to act virtuously in all things (CLXXXVI. 1-10).
Are the three vows essential to the religious state?
Yes; and in such way that without them there could be no religious state at all (CLXXXVI. 2-7).
Next - The Catechism of the Summa - LIX. OF THE TWO KINDS OF LIFE, VIZ., OF THE ACTIVE AND THE CONTEMPLATIVE; OF THE STATE OF PERFECTION-OF THE RELIGIOUS LIFE; AND OF THE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN THE CHURCH (F)
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