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CONCLUSION
27. “Awareness of the times in which we are living and of our responsibilities demands that we assure young men and women religious of an adequate formation, more complete than ever, in dynamic fidelity to Christ and the Church, to the charism of the founder and to mankind today”. (119)
In offering the criteria and the directives presented in this document, the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life, has intended to evaluate, order, and promote the vast and varied experience in the area of inter-institute collaboration, supported by the Second Vatican Council and developed in these years.
Inter-institute collaboration, which respects the sharing of charismatic gifts, respects their diversity, and is placed at their service, is a concrete response to the calls of the Church to help form a religious by promoting his or her unity of life in Christ through the Spirit. (120) Consecrated persons are called to insert themselves in the contemporary world to offer valid models of human and Christian fullness, according to the form of life which Christ the Lord chose, which Mary, Virgin and Mother embraced, (121) and which he himself proposed to his disciples. (122)
Thus religious will fulfill their mission as Christians called to be “a living memorial of Jesus' way of living and acting”, (123) and “moved by God to be pioneers on the missionary road and the paths of the Spirit”. (124) With the new ardor of their lives and of their word, with new methods and new expressions of their works, they will be faithful and bold instruments of God, signs of hope in “serv[ing] man by revealing to him the love of God made manifest in Jesus Christ”. (125)
On 31 October 1998, the Holy Father approved this document of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life and authorized its publication.
Rome, 8 December 1998, Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Eduardo Card. Martínez Somalo
Prefect
Piergiorgio Silvano Nesti
Secretary