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  1   1,1|             a few ways in which this religious individualism has expressed
  2   1,1|    sensitivity.  In contacts between religious institutions themselves
  3   1,1|            God. It is a fact that we religious have often done far more
  4   1,1|       charisms.  Contacts within the religious community have also experienced
  5   1,2|         image, of that Word, and the religious is an interlocutor who speaks
  6   1,2|           are no longer in an age of religious grandeur; the diet has undoubtedly
  7   1,2|           the question.~1.2.2.1. The religious principle~At the heart of
  8   1,2|       dialogue.~That is why man is a religious being, including in the
  9   1,2|          support amongst the lay and religious public, but because in a
 10   1,2|            and test of the vc~If the religious principle is also the principle
 11   1,2| relationships, and rediscovering the religious principle as a radical orientation
 12   1,2|             profoundly marked by the religious principle as the essential
 13   2,1|            and then in the choice of religious vocation that this connection
 14   2,1|            choice like the choice of religious consecration, with its decision
 15   2,1|            automatically chooses the religious life. No credibility can
 16   2,1|         originate in a relationship. Religious vocation lies essentially
 17   2,1|             the ordained ministry or religious or secular consecration,
 18   2,1|        important sign of the call to religious consecration.~2.1.2. Relationship,
 19   2,2|       consecrated individual and the religious community. Fraternity, in
 20   2,2|            community. Fraternity, in religious life, at once arises as
 21   2,2|         constituent dimension of the religious charism, for the following
 22   2,2|     following reasons: ~ because the religious charism, from which our
 23   2,2|              charism, from which our religious families arose and arise,
 24   2,2|               because, I repeat, the religious charism is always linked,
 25   2,2|           Anyone who asks to enter a religious institution must demonstrate
 26   2,2|             also a certain system of religious life (the vows, following
 27   2,2|            their own idea of perfect religious and community life and are
 28   2,2|           create.~More particularly, religious vocation means dedicating
 29   2,2|            and responsibility of the religious community. Anyone with an
 30   2,3|           essential dimension of the religious life, visible in the whole
 31   2,3|             curve" in the history of religious life, that new vocations
 32   2,3|          embraces all the mystery of religious vocation and the dynamism
 33   2,3|        person~It is good to think of religious vocation as a great sign
 34   2,3|     promotion), witnessed to (by the religious community) and recognized (
 35   2,3|              of judgment of a mature religious, but he can and should already
 36   2,3|             than his own interests.~"Religious vows are an extraordinary
 37   2,3|             the Giver who loves man. Religious live in the midst of this
 38   2,3|              Spirit. On one hand, "a religious life that does not succeed
 39   2,3|           also of the renewal of our religious institutions...~2.3.2.3.
 40   2,3|             human, the choice of the religious life presents itself as


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 41      |        POSSIBLE, NOTHING IS CERTAIN"~RELIGIOUS VOCATIONS IN POST-MODERN
 42   2  |              of uniformity prevails. Religious themselves have first-hand
 43   4  |        according to social status or religious denomination, and creates
 44   4  |            the basis of cultural and religious values, but this no longer
 45   6  |        question is this: how can the religious institutions, whose lives
 46   6  |        concerning ethics, morals and religious lifestyles, has often been
 47   6  |          pastoral, and especially on religious vocations. If there were
 48   6  |       encompassed all aspects of the religious life. How the life operated
 49   6  |        nothing is more important for religious communities than creating
 50   6  |            Kasper once said that the religious communities were "a meaningful
 51   6  |              Contemplation which, in religious seclusion as in the outside
 52   6  |          looking at our "fundamental religious values", on which baptism
 53   8  |     Concerning the Transformation of Religious Life, New York 1994;~Uwe


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 54   2  |           has fallen noticeably, the religious family environment has disappeared
 55   2  |            picture of the Church and religious institutions...~So, not
 56   2  |          faults or weaknesses of the religious: it is beyond our ability
 57   2  |        factors. In fact, most of the religious families have not adopted
 58   3  |              prompted by the younger religious, we have begun to talk about
 59   4  |             to the charism of a real religious family.~It is therefore
 60   5  |            divided and unjust world, religious communities are entrusted
 61   5  |         people of God and in our own religious institutions that a demand
 62   6  |          express the essence of each religious family, indicate what distinguishes
 63   6,1|            live like such and such a religious group? Certainly, contagion
 64   6,1|              taken that road.~So the religious language used to present
 65   6,1|   consecrated life. In reality, each religious, each community or apostolic
 66   6,1|              dimension proper to the religious charism there is often a
 67   7  |    transparency and coherence of our religious profession as disciples
 68   7  |              who loved the poor. The religious poverty which makes us more
 69   7,1|           apostolic works and in the religious institutions that are the
 70   7,1|           professional men and women religious, or a clerical bureaucracy;
 71   7,1|           about those tasks to which religious are dedicated in the first
 72   7,1|          from America or Africa or a religious who works in the suburbs
 73   7,1|          huge city to explain what a religious is or what qualities s/he
 74   7,1|           works. Often men and women religious are in the minority, and
 75   7,1|             no relationship with any religious. The apostolic mission is
 76   7,1|             called in this family or religious congregation. It is important
 77   8  |        justice made by men and women religious in recent years occupies
 78   8,1|            difficulty in stimulating religious vocations; sociologically
 79   8,1|        simple offer of work.~What we religious say about Jesus, the picture
 80   8,1|         people today are looking for religious experiences and the need
 81   8,1|         wants of them. Men and women religious, are we the experts on mystery
 82   8,2|          desire and attraction for a religious vocation if it is not socially
 83   8,2|             between the members of a religious Congregation, in lifestyle,
 84   8,2|         speaking, outsiders expect a religious to be and to be openly perceived
 85   8,2|             a few years ago what the religious "did" was what first attracted
 86   8,2|           groups that have a clearly religious aim, a strong communal life,
 87   8,2|          have a clear and meaningful religious dimension.~Does the consecrated
 88   9  |       conscious that our identity as religious is indissolubly linked to
 89   9  |              the Church".~Still, the religious vocation contains a high
 90   9  |              want to inspire them to religious vocations. Our identity
 91   9  |           vocations. Our identity as religious must also motivate us to
 92   9  |          mind the socio-cultural and religious situation of our world,
 93   9  |            as followers of Jesus; as religious we dedicate a great deal
 94   9  |              people) who meet us see religious? As tireless workers, responsible,
 95   9  |        within the Church, why are we religious, what is special about our
 96   9  |           desire and attraction to a religious vocation to be inspired,


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 97   1  |           present socio-cultural and religious context.~After treating
 98   2  |         diminished visibility of the religious life for the present day
 99   4  |            so many old people in the religious communities.~b) Individual
100   4  |         number of the youth entering Religious Institutes nowadays has
101   4  |           into new dialog with other religious Institutes and with the