Chapter,Paragraph,Number
1 Intro, 0,1 | those gathered together in religious communities, women and men "
2 Intro, 0,1 | and a divine attraction, religious communities are a living
3 Intro, 0,1 | view of the relevance of religious communities for the life
4 Intro, 0,1 | lived experience of today's religious communities, whether monastic
5 Intro, 0,1 | that is said here about religious communities applies also
6 Intro, 0,1 | thus giving new vitality to religious community, but they have
7 Intro, 0,1 | some places, it seems that religious community has lost its relevance
8 Intro, 0,1 | the eyes of women and men religious and is, perhaps, no longer
9 Intro, 0,1 | existential framework, and religious life cannot exempt itself
10 Intro, 0,1 | their repercussions.(2) Religious life is a vital part of
11 Intro, 0,1 | including the Church and its religious communities. Religious communities
12 Intro, 0,1 | its religious communities. Religious communities either constitute
13 Intro, 0,1 | Church have also marked religious communities deeply. The
14 Intro, 0,1 | a decisive influence on religious life; not only by virtue
15 Intro, 0,1 | being lived in the various religious communities.~
16 Intro, 1,2 | and to a renewed vision of religious community.~More than any
17 Intro, 1,2 | of our understanding of religious community. Vatican II affirmed
18 Intro, 1,2 | Vatican II affirmed that religious life belongs "undeniably" (
19 Intro, 1,2 | of the Church and placed religious life at the very heart of
20 Intro, 1,2 | communion and holiness.(3)~Religious community thus participates
21 Intro, 1,2 | the mystery dimension of religious community~Religious community
22 Intro, 1,2 | dimension of religious community~Religious community is not simply
23 Intro, 1,2 | communional-fraternal dimension of religious community~Religious community,
24 Intro, 1,2 | dimension of religious community~Religious community, in its structure,
25 Intro, 1,2 | charismatic dimension of religious community~Religious community
26 Intro, 1,2 | dimension of religious community~Religious community is a living organism
27 Intro, 1,2 | practice, the members of a religious community are seen to be
28 Intro, 1,2 | good of the entire Body. Religious community exists for the
29 Intro, 1,2 | the apostolic dimension of religious community~The purpose of
30 Intro, 1,2 | the fraternal communion of religious community derives its vigour
31 Intro, 1,2 | enriched the renewed vision of religious community with fresh insights.(8)~
32 Intro, 2,3 | own lawfully constituted religious house" and in "leading a
33 Intro, 3,4 | evolution and men and women religious, who are not of the world,
34 Intro, 3,4 | have had a direct impact on religious life in general and on religious
35 Intro, 3,4 | religious life in general and on religious community in particular.~
36 Intro, 3,4 | emphasis on social commitment.~Religious communities have been profoundly
37 Intro, 3,4 | a considerable number of religious communities towards these
38 Intro, 3,4 | fraternal life is lived in religious communities.~Moreover, movements
39 Intro, 3,4 | pluri-cultural and multi-racial religious communities, which are becoming
40 Intro, 3,4 | authority.~The Church and religious life were not immune from
41 Intro, 3,4 | feminism is deeply affecting religious life, almost everywhere
42 Intro, 3,4 | almost everywhere women's religious communities are positively
43 Intro, 3,4 | women in society, Church and religious life.~d) The communications
44 Intro, 3,4 | ought to characterise a religious community.~e) Consumerism
45 Intro, 3,4 | many regions have not left religious communities unaffected.
46 Intro, 3,4 | tested the ability of some religious communities to "resist evil"
47 Intro, 4 | Changes in religious life~
48 Intro, 4,5 | have profoundly affected religious communities.~a) A new profile
49 Intro, 4,5 | communities.~a) A new profile in religious communities. In many countries,
50 Intro, 4,5 | programmes in areas in which religious have traditionally been
51 Intro, 4,5 | a diminished presence of religious in works which used to be
52 Intro, 4,5 | is a shrinking of large religious communities at the service
53 Intro, 4,5 | communities composed of religious who are active in works
54 Intro, 4,5 | Church, can easily bring religious to take on too much work,
55 Intro, 4,5 | kind) has given rise in religious life to responses of admirable
56 Intro, 4,5 | the traditional profile of religious communities, which are deemed,
57 Intro, 4,5 | the spiritual dimension of religious life, to the point that
58 Intro, 4,5 | the part of men and women religious. This has led to a different
59 Intro, 4,5 | affected the character of religious communities in a profound
60 Intro, 4,5 | of women, on the kind of religious life and the kind of institute,
61 Intro, 5,6 | made by many communities of religious, both men and women, to
62 Intro, 5,6 | consecrated to the Lord in a religious institute or incorporated
63 Intro, 5,7 | structured as follows:~a) Religious community as gift: before
64 Intro, 5,7 | his life of communion.~b) Religious community as place where
65 Intro, 5,7 | Christian fraternity by the religious community.~c) Religious
66 Intro, 5,7 | religious community.~c) Religious community as place and subject
67 Intro, 5,7 | specific choices which a religious community is called to carry
68 I, 0,8 | being a human construction, religious community is a gift of the
69 I, 0,8 | Holy Spirit, from which religious community takes its origin
70 I, 0,8 | impossible to understand religious community unless we start
71 I, 2 | Religious community as expression
72 I, 2,10 | Christianity. In fact, the religious community has felt itself
73 I, 2,10 | times, give life to new religious families -- and hence to
74 I, 2,10 | is impossible to speak of religious community univocally. The
75 I, 2,10 | the "wondrous variety" of religious families which enrich the
76 I, 2,10 | the variety of forms of religious communities.~Nevertheless,
77 I, 2,10 | which unites all Christians. Religious community is a visible manifestation
78 I, 2,10 | As "experts in communion, religious are, therefore, called to
79 I, 2,10 | the fervour of charity, religious are communally a prophetic
80 I, 2,10 | calls together and nourishes religious families which, by means
81 II | II. ~RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY AS PLACE FOR BECOMING
82 II, 0,11 | the profile and life of religious community.~Starting from
83 II, 1,12 | It follows that a religious community is, above all
84 II, 1,12 | theologal dimension which binds religious community to the mystery
85 II, 1,12 | moments of the life of our religious families as well as in the
86 II, 1,13 | pray" (cf. Lk. 21:36), a religious community needs to be watchful
87 II, 1,13 | Sometimes men and women religious "don't have time" and their
88 II, 1,13 | busy and anxious, and the religious can end up being tired and
89 II, 1,13 | and exhausted. In fact, religious community is regulated by
90 II, 1,14 | of liturgical prayer by religious families.~Communal celebration
91 II, 1,14 | the necessity that every religious house have its own oratory
92 II, 1,17 | and for communal prayer. A religious community lives constantly
93 II, 1,18 | bond of communion for the religious community.(33)~The Mother
94 II, 1,18 | Lord will help configure religious communities to the model
95 II, 1,18 | Nazareth, a place which religious communities ought often
96 II, 1,20 | 20. Religious communities which are most
97 II, 1,20 | search for the transcendent, religious communities can become privileged
98 II, 1,20 | united in the Lord's name, [a religious community] is of its nature
99 II, 3,24 | be remembered that, for religious men and women, fulfilment
100 II, 3,27 | a powerful attraction to religious life, a source of new vocations
101 II, 3,27 | cultivate such joy within a religious community: overwork can
102 II, 3,27 | evangelical quality of a religious community; it is the end
103 II, 4,28 | importance for the life of a religious community. The deeply felt
104 II, 4,29 | general problems, and brings religious closer together around their
105 II, 4,30 | the broader framework of religious life, Church life and the
106 II, 4,31 | intense communication among religious living together in the same
107 II, 4,31 | communities often include religious of different ages and different
108 II, 4,31 | and theological formation, religious who have had widely differing
109 II, 4,32 | communication compatible with religious life can enhance the growth
110 II, 4,33 | mentality has its effect on religious communities as well, and
111 II, 5 | Religious community and personal growth~
112 II, 5,34 | 35. Because religious community is a Schola Amoris
113 II, 5,34 | the wonderful figures of religious men and women are there
114 II, 5,35 | to the members of a given religious institute".(48) For this
115 II, 5,35 | action of God, accompany the religious in the ways of God, nourish
116 II, 5,35 | consecrated person and the religious community are a proposal
117 II, 5,36 | necessary in order to allow each religious to attain maturity. Where
118 II, 5,36 | Lord Jesus and of many holy religious -- a love that shares in
119 II, 5,37 | are well experienced with religious life and its dynamics. So
120 II, 5,38 | aspects of communitarianism. Religious community is the place where
121 II, 5,38 | of Christ".~In this way, religious community becomes the place
122 II, 5,39 | for the mission of their religious family;~d) to recall that
123 II, 5,39 | holiness;~e) to consider that religious, on receiving in obedience
124 II, 5,40 | foster closer relations among religious, prayer which is more deeply
125 II, 5,40 | contrary to the very nature of religious community and to its function
126 II, 5,41 | evangelization.~The presence of religious communities -- which, through
127 II, 5,42 | who are responsible for religious institutes as of vital importance
128 II, 5,42 | formation in daily life. Religious community is the place where
129 II, 5,42 | persevering daily efforts. Religious community is, for everyone,
130 II, 5,42 | for the growth of others. Religious community is also the place
131 II, 5,43 | the evangelical counsels~Religious profession expresses the
132 II, 5,43 | lived in the community of a religious family. Religious are not
133 II, 5,43 | community of a religious family. Religious are not only "called" to
134 II, 5,43 | which unites a number of religious into one single community
135 II, 5,43 | united in the Holy Spirit -- religious discover every day that
136 II, 5,44 | growth of fraternal life.~"Religious consecration establishes
137 II, 5,44 | particular communion between religious and God and, in him, between
138 II, 5,44 | to conditions surrounding religious life, cultural currents
139 II, 5,45 | threat to the vitality of a religious community.~Several factors
140 II, 5,45 | having caused suffering for religious communities in recent years
141 II, 5,45 | which exposes individual religious to the ambiguous phenomenon
142 II, 5,45 | Instead of offering their own religious witness as a fraternal gift
143 II, 5,45 | genericism which reduces religious life to a colourless lowest
144 II, 6,47 | the entire tradition of religious life.~If the widespread
145 II, 6,47 | process, even within the religious community, nevertheless,
146 II, 6,47 | Word of God, and also, in religious life, to the authority who
147 II, 6,47 | respect and charity.~In religious communities, authority,
148 II, 6,48 | is for this reason that religious life has within it various
149 II, 6,49 | superior works so that the religious house is not merely a place
150 II, 6,51 | individualism is rampant, a religious community is called to be
151 II, 6,51 | with the will of God.~While religious communities must take on
152 II, 6,52 | force for all family life.~Religious life has always lived from
153 II, 7,53 | reason, "the effectiveness of religious life depends on the quality
154 II, 7,54 | 55. A religious community, if and to the
155 II, 7,54 | heart the fraternal life of religious communities: the more intense
156 II, 7,54 | entirety" of the mission of a religious community, but it is an
157 II, 7,54 | Activities undertaken by religious must be activities of people
158 II, 7,54 | not be such as to remove a religious from living the communion
159 II, 7,55 | 56. Religious communities, aware of their
160 II, 7,55 | to higher aspirations.~"Religious communities, who by their
161 II, 7,56 | perseverance of individual religious. Just as the poor quality
162 II, 7,56 | as the reason for leaving religious life, so fraternity lived
163 II, 7,56 | difficulties and trials.~Thus, religious communities, in the support
164 III | III. ~RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY AS PLACE AND SUBJECT
165 III, 0,57 | evangelise the world, so every religious community, as an authentic
166 III, 0,57 | accomplished in communion".(72)~No religious community, including specifically
167 III, 0,58 | Religious community and mission~Before
168 III, 0,58 | particular situations that religious communities, in order to
169 III, 0,58 | between different kinds of religious communities and the mission
170 III, 0,58 | following statement: "Let religious see well to it that the
171 III, 0,58 | the Spirit makes different religious families arise, characterised
172 III, 0,58 | mystery. The "apostolic" religious community (showing forth
173 III, 0,58 | the priority of the entire religious family, considered as one
174 III, 0,58 | are thus various kinds of religious community that have been
175 III, 0,58 | the same meaning for all religious. Monastics, conventuals
176 III, 0,58 | Monastics, conventuals and religious of active life have maintained
177 III, 0,58 | understanding and living religious community.~This diversity
178 III, 0,58 | thus the character of the religious community.~c) It is generally
179 III, 0,58 | recognised, especially for religious communities dedicated to
180 III, 0,58 | is a fruitful tension of religious life, which is designed
181 III, 0,58 | authentic community character of religious life.~All of this has a
182 III, 0,58 | different ways of living religious community.~e) The tendency,
183 III, 0,58 | than an integral part of religious life.~The consequences of
184 III, 0,58 | impoverish the rich reality of religious life.~
185 III, 1,59 | missionary presence of a religious community is developed within
186 III, 1,59 | presence, not only does a religious community bear in itself
187 III, 1,59 | condition, which clearly holds religious themselves responsible,
188 III, 1,59 | charisms (cf. 1 Cor. 13:13), a religious community enriches the Church
189 III, 1,59 | of the Church herself.~A religious community loves the particular
190 III, 1,59 | charismatic specificity of the religious community have been dealt
191 III, 1,59 | of true communion between religious community and the particular
192 III, 1,59 | personnel can tempt both a religious community and the particular
193 III, 1,59 | understanding and collaboration.~The religious community runs the risk,
194 III, 1,59 | functions. Moreover, if religious life tends more and more
195 III, 1,59 | demands on the energies of religious for the pastoral activities
196 III, 1,59 | isolation and independence of a religious community in relation to
197 III, 1,59 | practical assimilation of a religious community into the particular
198 III, 1,59 | particular Church.~Just as a religious community cannot act independently
199 III, 1,59 | according to its needs, of a religious community or of any of its
200 III, 1,59 | consideration for the charism of a religious community serves neither
201 III, 1,59 | particular Church nor that of the religious community itself. Only if
202 III, 1,59 | community itself. Only if a religious community has a well-defined
203 III, 1,59 | particular Church or of religious life, and of the responsibilities
204 III, 1,59 | responsibilities of the bishop for religious life.~It is earnestly recommended
205 III, 1,59 | juridic and pastoral aspects; religious should in turn receive adequate
206 III, 1,59 | however, a truly fraternal religious community will feel in duty
207 III, 1,60 | considerable tension for religious priests. At times, the heavy
208 III, 1,60 | secular clergy and even religious themselves lose sight of
209 III, 1,60 | the particular nature of religious life.~Urgent pastoral needs
210 III, 1,60 | that the best service a religious community can give to the
211 III, 1,60 | community and where the religious can express their charism.~
212 III, 1,60 | can express their charism.~Religious communities of women, also
213 III, 1,60 | more fruitful, the more the religious community is present in
214 III, 1,60 | great advantage for both the religious community and the pastoral
215 III, 1,60 | pastoral work, in which religious women are generally well
216 III, 1,61 | attracted the attention of some religious who have become involved
217 III, 1,61 | brought divisions into the religious community.~It is, then,
218 III, 1,61 | incompatible with those of a religious community.~Also, there can
219 III, 1,61 | on the part of individual religious;~b) these movements can
220 III, 1,61 | fruitful challenge to a religious community, to its spiritual
221 III, 1,61 | of its fraternal life. A religious community should be open
222 III, 1,61 | ascetic and mystical -- of religious life and of the institute
223 III, 1,61 | fruitful for both.~For those religious who seem to live more in
224 III, 1,61 | movement than in and for their religious community, it is good to
225 III, 1,61 | is.~"Candidates for the religious life... place themselves...
226 III, 1,61 | exigencies remain after the religious profession, so as to avoid
227 III, 1,61 | personal spiritual life of the religious or on the level of their
228 III, 1,61 | movement will be positive for religious if it reinforces their specific
229 III, 1,62 | and sisters in the faith, religious communities have been among
230 III, 1,62 | issue which has involved religious very intensely and which
231 III, 1,62 | has touched their hearts. Religious life has seriously faced
232 III, 1,62 | evangelizare pauperibus). But religious have also wanted to be evangelised
233 III, 1,62 | huge mobilisation, in which religious have chosen as their programme "
234 III, 1,62 | forgotten rural areas, "religious communities of insertion"
235 III, 1,62 | Insertion" as an ideal of religious life has developed in a
236 III, 1,62 | faith and solidarity of religious communities with the poorest.~
237 III, 1,62 | of their founders, such religious communities ought to be
238 III, 1,62 | superiors.(78)~b) These religious communities should not be
239 III, 1,62 | the efforts of the other religious communities who are effectively
240 III, 1,62 | for both the poor and the religious community itself, a true
241 III, 1,63 | for other agents, such as religious communities. On the other
242 III, 1,63 | numbers of men and women religious and, here or there, a limited
243 III, 1,64 | 65. Men and women religious living alone~One of the
244 III, 1,64 | is that of men and women religious living alone. Common life
245 III, 1,64 | institute is essential for religious life. "Religious should
246 III, 1,64 | essential for religious life. "Religious should live in their own
247 III, 1,64 | should live in their own religious house, observing a common
248 III, 1,64 | the point that a single religious is in charge of one of the
249 III, 1,64 | it is the duty of these religious to keep alive in themselves
250 III, 1,64 | regular meetings with fellow religious for formation, fraternal
251 III, 1,64 | of the charism of their religious family.~A religious living
252 III, 1,64 | their religious family.~A religious living alone is never an
253 III, 1,64 | ideal. The norm is that religious live in fraternal communities:
254 III, 1,64 | positive experiences in which religious who collaborate in serving
255 III, 1,64 | for the work and for the religious themselves.~Religious should
256 III, 1,64 | the religious themselves.~Religious should be prudent in wanting
257 III, 1,64 | It must be noted that the religious who lives alone, without
258 III, 1,64 | celebrations to be fully a religious. Efforts must be made to
259 III, 1,64 | inadmissible situations for religious men and women.~d) In each
260 III, 1,64 | is helpful to recall that religious, even when living outside
261 III, 1,64 | able to be considered true religious institutes. Superiors and
262 III, 1,64 | institutes. Superiors and religious are invited to reflect seriously
263 III, 1,65 | Gospel cannot be proclaimed, religious communities are almost the
264 III, 1,65 | mission territories that religious come up against notable
265 III, 1,65 | possible, set up fraternal religious communities with a strong
266 III, 1,66 | works and of the presence of religious communities.~This task,
267 III, 1,66 | for communion among the religious.~In addition to attention
268 III, 1,66 | of the particular Church, religious communities must be concerned
269 III, 1,67 | 68. Elderly religious~One of the situations which
270 III, 1,67 | quite positive. An elderly religious who does not allow himself
271 III, 1,67 | apostolic journey. Moreover, religious who take care of the elderly
272 III, 1,67 | possible the presence of religious in their normal workplaces.~
273 III, 1,68 | growing number of elderly religious become still more striking
274 III, 1,69 | and collaboration among religious men, religious women, and
275 III, 1,69 | collaboration among religious men, religious women, and lay faithful
276 III, 1,69 | values characteristic of religious life, such as the radicality
277 III, 1,69 | between the lay faithful and religious communities.~Collaboration
278 III, 1,69 | it is necessary to have: religious communities with a clear
279 III, 1,69 | disposed to share them; religious communities with an intense
280 III, 1,69 | same evangelising thrust; religious communities who know how
281 III, 1,69 | operative. In this way, a religious community becomes a centre
282 III, 1,69 | styles of life proper to religious and to lay persons.~A religious
283 III, 1,69 | religious and to lay persons.~A religious community has its own needs
284 III, 1,69 | and the living together of religious and laity, even when such
285 III, 1,69 | respected.~Otherwise, a religious community would lose its
286 Conclu, 0,70| 71. A religious community, as an expression
287 Conclu, 0,70| this reason, each and every religious is committed to feel co-responsible
288 Conclu, 0,70| name.~"The effectiveness of religious life depends on the quality
289 Conclu, 0,70| renewal in the Church and in religious life is characterised by
290 Conclu, 0,70| May Mary bring together religious communities and support
291 Abbr, 3 | Contemplative Dimension of Religious Life, Sacred Congregation
292 Abbr, 3 | Sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes (
293 Abbr, 3 | the Church's Teaching on Religious Life, SCRIS, 1983.~MR Directives
294 Abbr, 3 | Relations Between Bishops and Religious in the Church, Sacred Congregation
295 Abbr, 3 | Directives on Formation in Religious Institutes, CICLSAL, 1990.~
296 Abbr, 3 | Institutes, CICLSAL, 1990.~RHP Religious and Human Promotion, SCRIS,
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