Canon Regular
As Canons Regular , well -regulated canons (also canon regularis , canon is a synonym for Canon ), is referred to the members of a collegiate church , according to a monastic rule live, usually the priesthood have received and vows have passed, but without monks to be. The rule of the order is mostly one of the two rules of St. Augustine , the Ordo antiquus or the Ordo novus .
Specifics and structure
Regulated canons differ from secular canons in that they have submitted to a rule of the order according to which they direct their spiritual life and lead a community life . The regular canons see their main task in the connection of communal spiritual life with the celebration of choral prayer and pastoral care (mostly in the surrounding parishes).
The forms of organization of the regular canons were different from the beginning, but hardly follow the principle of filiation any more. The legally independent full form of a regulated canon monastery is usually called a provost or monastery . Often the individual branches of the order of a similar character or country team have come together to form a congregation (monastery association) (as in the case of the Augustinian canons) or the order as a whole was divided into provinces ( called circariums among the Premonstratensians ).
Overview of today's canons
Among the regular canons working in Germany are today
literature
- Manfred Heim: Art. Canons (Canon). In: Monasticism - Order - Monasteries from the beginning to the present: A lexicon. Edited by Georg Schwaiger , C. H. Beck, Munich 1993, pp. 131-146, especially 137-146.