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What are the vows of a monk and nun?

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Religious, that is monks, nuns, brothers, and sisters, normally take three vows: chastity, obedience, and poverty. Most monks in the Catholic church are either Benedictine, or some order which has come from the Benedictine Order (Cistercians, Cistercians of the Strict Observance {Trappist}, and to some extent, Carthusians, who are not strictly monks, but hermits. All of these take three solemn vows: Stability (to remain in the same monastery), Conversatio Morum (a Latin phrase usually translated "conversion of life" which, among other things, includes poverty and chastity - and much more), and Obedience.

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