Poverty encourages us to a personal simplicity of life and freedom from an excessive concern for possessions. This way of life demands adaptability, a willingness to live in simple circumstances, and a sense of responsibility in the care and use of personal and communal goods.
We freely affirm for ourselves the celibate expression of a chaste life, conscious of the challenge such an affirmation calls forth from us. We attempt such a way of life only as a response to a gift of God.
Believing that God has called us to service in community, each of us commits himself to active cooperation in the apostolic work of the Society. We recognize that obedience has a necessary place in our lives and ask of all a loyalty corresponding to this necessity.
Our need for prayer is as fundamental as our need for God. Without prayer, faith soon dries up and dies. Without prayer, charity grows cold or becomes routine, and hope becomes a utopian dream.
Of my own free choice, I, ____________, a member of the Glenmary Home Missioners, for the sake of the Kingdom of God, do solemnly promise and swear before God to dedicate myself for my whole life to the missionary apostolate in the rural areas and small towns of the United States and to the Glenmary way of life according to the Glenmary Constitution and Directory.
I am aware that the Glenmary way of life commits me to a special practice of poverty, chastity, obedience and prayer. Thus bound in a covenant with the other members in the Glenmary community, I ask for their support and loyalty and pledge to them my own.
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