After two years of service as a Professed Servant, the professed may elect to take Solemn or Perpetual Vows in accordance with the appropriate ecclesiastical regulations.

Special circumstances may exist, from time to time, for a Professed Servant to take Solemn or Perpetual Vows before the minimum two years of service have occurred. In such cases the special circumstances are to be approved by the Abbot General and the Abbot General’s council.

In our congregation Solemn or Perpetual Vows are required for candidates to become Canonical Priests and Abbots. At Solemn and Perpetual profession one confirms his/her final bond to the Order and its ministry. Through it one becomes a full member of the community and the fulfillment of the Order’s existence.

Solemn vows may be elected for a period of ten years due to special circumstances. Perpetual vows may be made at any appropriate time after Solemn Vows have been made.

Special circumstances are to be approved by the Abbot General and the Abbot General’s council.

Perpetual vows are for life.

A special time of preparation precedes the taking of Solemn and Perpetual Vows. It is to take the form of a 14 day refresher course of our purposes and core values, for all the candidates, for profession of our congregation. They are also once more to be introduced into the fundamentals of the vowed life and into the particular functions of our communities. The place, and time of this course are determined by the conditions laid down by the council of the Abbot General.

For admission to Solemn and Perpetual Vows the agreement of the Full Chapter is necessary. The Professed Servants Master must to give a report. To take these vows the professed must be at least thirty, (30) years old

“I, NN., make this (Solemn or Perpetual) vow to live in the community of the Avenue of N. for the service of the People of God. I vow to God, the Almighty, before our Abbot Provost N., (OR before you Fr. N. the authorized representative of our Abbot Provost N.), and before these, my brothers and sisters in Christ, a life of Commitment, in Servanthood and in Obedience according to the Rule and Way Of Life of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, and to the Canons of The Canonical Order of Chaplains, and thereto I Vow my steady, Holy Resolution,  consecrated to God,

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.”