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Third Orders

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | Copyright

Third Orders. Religious organizations affiliated usually to one of the Mendicant Orders, so called to distinguish them from the First and Second Orders, now normally of professed men and women respectively. Their origins lie in the practice, developed in the 12th cent., of voluntarily adopting the status of penitent. In the 13th cent. various attempts were made to clarify the canonical position of these penitents and to gather them into regular institutions; many attached themselves to the Franciscans and Dominicans. In 1284 the Master of the Dominican Order established a Dominican Order of Penance subject to his own jurisdiction, and soon afterwards the Franciscans were given official responsibility for the groups of penitents under their care, who became known as the Third Order of St Francis. In the late 13th cent. informal communities of men and women established houses and attached themselves to the Mendicants. In the 15th cent. some of them began to take religious vows. From these communities developed the Third Orders Regular, whose members are sometimes known as Regular Tertiaries. They differ little from the First and Second Orders of their respective societies. Members of Third Orders who do not take religious vows are known as Secular Tertiaries. They lead a normal life in the world; they usually have to make a novitiate, observe a rule, and say certain prescribed prayers.

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