A Community of consecrated People

50. The vows, which are an expression of our love of the Lord, are a unifying force in the Marist community. Chastity, since it frees the heart from a possessive love, opens it to the breadth and dynamism of a love that encompasses everybody. Poverty puts all that we are and everything that we have at the service of others. Obedience directs the community to seeking and carrying out the will of God.

50.1 An important way of building up Marist community is the plan for community life, which gives us the opportunity to exercise co-responsibility in the search for God's will. The Provincial Chapter decides whether the communities are obliged to draw up such a plan. This plan for community life deals with some points of the Constitutions in relation to the concrete situation of the community. It takes into account the priorities of the Province as proposed by the Chapter and made specific by the Brother Provincial. The plan is to be approved by the Brother Provincial. (cf 150.2.7)

50.2 Where the plan for community life is not obligatory, the Provincial Chapter will find some suitable way of replacing it.