SECTION 2: COUNSELS PERTAINING TO THE CUSTOS’ VOCATION | Rule 1

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Section 2 | Rule #1: The Irrevocable Nature of the Custos’ Vocation

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Let the Custos be aware that by sacramentally vowing himself in lifelong fidelity to his wife, and by swearing before God to receive and raise children to God, he has irrevocably embraced his vocation as a husband and father as his primary path to holiness, glory, and union with God; therefore he must not look for another primary path.

When a person sets out toward a destination, he selects his route and once embarked, does not return to his point of origin to select an alternate route for the purpose of beginning again. In a similar manner, once a man has consecrated himself as a husband to his wife, he cannot return to a moment preceding this act of consecration and select another vocation. For as the palmist decrees, “I am bound by the vows I made” (Ps 119); and as the holy apostle says, “The gift and call of God are irrevocable” (Rom 11:9). Therefore, being a husband in the image of Christ and a father in the image of God the Father, is the Custos’ primary vocational path toward union with God and to glorify God. All other paths to holiness are subsequent, secondary, and subject to this holy path.