Community of ST Peter, Horbury

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO SUCH PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE IN THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND WHICH ARE IN KEEPING WITH THE TENETS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE, INCLUDING THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IN PARTICULAR BY ENABLING THOSE WHO RECEIVE A VOCATION TO MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMUNITY TO LIVE A LIFE OF SEPARATION FROM THE WORLD UNDER THE THREEFOLD VOWS OF POVERTY, CHASTITY, AND OBEDIENCE TO THE END THAT THEY MAY, BY THE AID OF PRAYER AND SELF-ABNEGATION, THE BETTER FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF OUR LORD AND MASTER JESUS CHRIST, AND BY UNION WITH HIM GIVE GLORY TO GOD BY THE FURTHERANCE OF THOSE WORKS OF MERCY TO THE DISCHARGE OF WHICH THE COMMUNITY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE CALLED. AMONG THE WORKS OF MERCY TO WHICH THE COMMUNITY IS DEVOTED, A SPECIAL PLACE IS GIVEN TO THE SPIRITUAL AND MORAL RESTORATION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS, TO THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND TO PAROCHIAL AND OTHER MISSION WORK.