In order that the great value of a life consecrated by the profession of the counsels and its necessary mission today may yield greater good to the Church, the sacred synod lays down the following prescriptions. They are meant to state only the general principles of the adaptation and renewal of the life and discipline of Religious orders and also, without prejudice to their special characteristics, of societies of common life without vows and secular institutes.
Kusudi thamani kuu ya maisha ya wakfu kwa njia ya uprofesi (professionem) wa mashauri ya kiinjili, pamoja na huduma zake muhimu katika mazingira ya leo, vilete manufaa makubwa katika Kanisa, Mtaguso huu Mkuu unaidhinisha kanuni zifuatazo, zihusuzo misingi ya kijumla tu ya upyaisho wa maisha na wa nidhamu unaotakiwa katika mashirika ya kitawa, na vilevile katika jamii za maisha ya pamoja pasipo nadhiri, na katika mashirika ya kilimwengu (secularium), hata ingawa kila taasisi inatakiwa kudumisha tabia yake.