Personal Aspect of Selected Spiritual Duties of Religious

Abstract

In the Code of Canon Law, book II, chapter IV, a legislator included duties, which oblige religious to maintain specific actions in both external and internal fields. Among the actions from a field of spiritual life, some of them are analyzed in this paper and may be highlighted, i.e. contemplation and prayer, conversion of the soul toward God and daily conscience examination, a practice of annual period of sacred retreat and picturing the Virgin Mother of God as a model of personal life of a member of religious institute. This paper points out, that this aspect of religious life is very important for the legislator, because the discussed questions are placed in the first canons of the chapter which refers to the rights and duties of religious. Moreover, other documents of the Church also point out on these aspects of religious life and that proofs their significance. The cognition of the legislator’s idea in this aspect, would surely allow the religious to fulfill better their tasks, which emerge from their spiritual life.