take vows

take vows

To commit oneself to a religious order. Yes, I am taking vows and devoting my life to God. My brother has taken vows and joined the priesthood.
See also: take
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • I do
  • selfie
  • wash (one's) hands of (someone or something)
  • wash hands of
  • wash one's hands of
  • wash your hands of
  • wash your hands of somebody/something
  • wash your hands of something/someone
  • for (one's) (own) sake
  • for sake
References in periodicals archive
It is a practice where women take vows as a commitment to a life of chastity and "give themselves fully to Christ".
'Brides of Christ' don't need to be virgins, Vatican announces
Moreover, the members of Opus Dei do not take "religious vows." They do not take vows at all.
'Personal Prelature of Church'
After Ursula had served as a slave in Santa Clara, one of the largest colonial convents, a nun purchased her freedom, which allowed the Afro-Peruvian woman, while working as a cook, nurse, messenger, and laborer, to take vows. Van Deusen advances a thesis that while Ursula de Jesus expressed obedience to colonial racial hierarchies and sought to fit into the devotional models of her contemporary female visionaries, she criticized her society through the same acts.
The Souls of Purgatory: The Spiritual Diary of a Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Ursula de Jesus
In the West there developed about the year 400 an effort to get priests to separate from their wives and take vows of celibacy.
Abuse a consequence of historic wrong turn: priesthood and celibacy need to be distinct vocations once again. (Column)
The Dominicans, founded in France in 1216, take vows of celibacy and poverty.
ROMEO PRIEST MARRIES HIS NUN ON THE RUN; Happy couple play hide and seek
And one concrete way in which that might happen is to invite people to take vows.
Mercy Sisters rethink vows, members