What exactly are 'private vows'?
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Since you question specifically states Catholicism, I will give you a quote from a Catholic source:
For centuries people have been embracing the evangelical counsels and binding themselves to observe them by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. The most common example we have of persons making these vows are the men and women who make their profession of vows as religious. These religious make what is known as public vows. Not all people, however, are called to make public vows, but instead elect to follow the evangelical counsels through private vows.
There is one primary difference between a public vow of poverty, chastity, or obedience and a private vow of poverty, chastity, or obedience. Public vows are made in a religious profession, or profession in the hands of the bishop of a diocesan hermit and have the effect of placing the individual in the consecrated state in the Church. Private vows are made outside of this context of Ecclesiastical acceptance and they do not change the canonical status of the individual making them within the Church.
I do not know if only those three fall into what can be a private vow or not.
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If I look at my relationship with God the father as a intimate Love between me and Him and also his peoples..
Its only natural to have private vows.. especially since God desires to have a one on one with us. Because simply Gods love is for you.
God loves you more then anyone else could.. weather we take a vow.. only God knows the true heart of the person who made that vow. For God knows the Spirit and if the spirit is truth then nothing can break that vow. But that again is between man and God. The very reason God gave us a new covenant through Jesus.To love God with all our heart, soul, mind, strength, and to love our neighbor as our self. Lots of Love happening with God don't you think? private or public if its love.. there is no issue. (Mark 12:30-31, Jeremiah 31:31-34, Hebrews 8:13, Luke 10:27 Duet 6:5,)
John 13:34-35 " A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” NKJV
Simply God knows, your heart. He knows your vows.
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