What kind of vocations for a renewed consecrated life?…
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  1      |           FOR A RENEWED CONSECRATED LIFE?~WHAT KIND OF CONSECRATED
  2      |            WHAT KIND OF CONSECRATED LIFE FOR "NEW" VOCATIONS?~The
  3      |          refounding the consecrated life (vc) which, as last November’
  4      |   Priesthood and to the Consecrated Life bears the significant title,
  5   1  |            What kind of Consecrated Life for "New" Vocations?~One
  6   1  |            young people just facing life, no longer able to understand
  7   1,1|            to involve others in his life, his spiritual riches, his
  8   1,1|           the document on fraternal life in community when it spoke
  9   1,1|             express the beauty of a life totally consecrated to the
 10   1,1|          relationships in community life, indeed within the community
 11   1,1|            a relationship that gave life to man and which man leans
 12   1,2|           are at the basis of human life. Man is a creature of dialogue;
 13   1,2|          Decentralized" Consecrated Life~The implications of the
 14   1,2|            Extroverted" Consecrated Life~This is the positive aspect
 15   1,2|             a "you" does he come to life, because a call has been
 16   1,2|           man himself, in community life, and the cenobium as a place
 17   1,2|    translated into the realities of life and everyday relationships,
 18   1,2|             spirituality, community life and the apostolate.~* Spirituality:
 19   1,2|     spirituality that is brought to life through contact with history,
 20   1,2|      contact with history, with the life of the Church, with present-day
 21   1,2|         than it is now.~* Community life: the communion of saints
 22   1,2|           The document on fraternal life puts it very well: "the
 23   1,2|       promise of "perfect community life": could not this too, expressed
 24   1,2|      everyone we in the consecrated life meet face to face. In particular,
 25   2  |           for a renewed consecrated life?~From what we have just
 26   2  |          entrant to the consecrated life must know he is "a relational
 27   2,1|           the extreme simplicity of life, of its meaning and, at
 28   2,1|           we show young people this life as Moses’ burning bush that
 29   2,1|          enter into the reasons for life, into its truth which is
 30   2,1|        Relationship, the meaning of life~The whole mysterious and
 31   2,1|       internal relationship between life and death, or in the following
 32   2,1|        because the good received (= life) naturally becomes a good
 33   2,1|              because the meaning of life is indivisibly linked to
 34   2,1|             appears as the truth of life; it is at the origin and
 35   2,1|            way, as regards content (life and death both seen as a
 36   2,1|          dynamics (the passage from life to death).~This already
 37   2,1|         elementary grammar of human life that must be the basis for
 38   2,1|         gift that creates him, then life’s pathway is signposted:
 39   2,1|            same truth, the truth of life, is at the basis of every
 40   2,1|            love received in his own life could be properly consecrated.
 41   2,1| automatically chooses the religious life. No credibility can be accorded
 42   2,1|           referring to the truth of life (universal truth, valid
 43   2,1|         catechism of the meaning of life. If this anthropological
 44   2,1|            this relational sense of life (and death); the young person
 45   2,1|            this culture (culture of life and true vocational culture)
 46   2,1|        whole of the [person’s] past life should lead to exactly this
 47   2,1|          the vocational catechesis: life is a good received that
 48   2,1|           what we have received: to life, to others, to God. "The
 49   2,1|          and false attitude towards life and would not even know
 50   2,1|           smiling at themselves, at life and at things they love -
 51   2,1|         mystery can understand that life can be ambivalent, that
 52   2,1|            outside. The consecrated life succeeds in holding together
 53   2,2|            Fraternity, in religious life, at once arises as an intrinsic
 54   2,2|            those in the consecrated life, their specific way of being,
 55   2,2|         shape and standard of their life, its essential character
 56   2,2|           he is made to deliver his life and his heart, his calling
 57   2,2|        means trust in others and in life, to the point of sharing
 58   2,2|         certain system of religious life (the vows, following a rule,
 59   2,2|             religious and community life and are still too afraid
 60   2,2|         many times other people, or life, have carried them on their
 61   2,2|             because it believes its life to be transparent in itself,
 62   2,3|          dimension of the religious life, visible in the whole rich
 63   2,3|             opposite, i.e. a way of life distinguished by a rule,
 64   2,3|            the history of religious life, that new vocations have
 65   2,3|         earlier called the truth of life, as the fundamental relational
 66   2,3|       fundamental relational truth (life is a good received that,
 67   2,3|           choice of the consecrated life. It is this that, from the
 68   2,3|            good received in his own life, from God, but not only
 69   2,3|             of choosing it as their life’s ideal, recognizing in
 70   2,3|            truth, from the truth of life, that enables the heart
 71   2,3|          symbols of the consecrated life, both as they are and as
 72   2,3|            relational and affective life, attitudes to material possessions,
 73   2,3|        affection of others, his own life, he will become increasingly
 74   2,3|           On one hand, "a religious life that does not succeed in
 75   2,3|         vocation to the consecrated life is a decision based on a
 76   2,3|             practical aims, it is a life that is wasted, sexually
 77   2,3|             choice of the religious life presents itself as something
 78   2,3|             and more central to his life. He may not at once be able
 79   2,3|           needed by the consecrated life today!~(Original text written


“Everything is possible, nothing is certain”…
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 80   1  |             new symbols and ways of life. All that brings into play
 81   1  |           and identity of Christian life and the sequela of Jesus
 82   1  |      sequela within the consecrated life (VC), still plausible in
 83   1  |          Church and the consecrated life and with what hopes we are
 84   1  |           Spirit that maintains the life of the Church and of the
 85   1  |         theology of the consecrated life, as well as on the hitherto
 86   1  |          into the full truth of our life, our history and our God.
 87   1  |           model for the consecrated life in the future will be the "
 88   2  |             so that all should have life, dignity and a future. But
 89   2  |            simply an imitation. Our life does not look backwards,
 90   2  |           look backwards, but is a "life in the Spirit" and a "spiritual
 91   2  |            Spirit" and a "spiritual life" that makes the sequela
 92   2  |      sacramental celebration of the life culture, a daily meeting
 93   2  |           with the foundation of my life that I experience in God’
 94   2  |           ultimate aim of Christian life, but the means of becoming
 95   2  |         theology of the consecrated life and its mission in today’
 96   2  |       principles take precedence on life, the letter over the spirit
 97   2  |          sources of the consecrated life as early as the first chapter.
 98   2  |          our own. It is a spirit of life, not death. New things are
 99   2  |          its way out. The spiritual life is essentially nothing but
100   2  |  understanding the whole process of life as a continual new birth
101   2  |        considering any one phase of life as final". The modern and
102   4  |            lifestyle and concept of life. Behind these developments
103   4  |          individualistic concept of life; for others, a trend towards ‘
104   4  |       voluntary sector"). One’s own life is still formed and managed
105   4  |      choices of how to manage one’s life, no longer has a monopoly.~~
106   6  |        challenge to the consecrated life. We all know that strongly
107   6  |            characterized "community life" in the past and how necessary,
108   6  |             form of the consecrated life, especially in its great
109   6  |            aspects of the religious life. How the life operated was
110   6  |             religious life. How the life operated was defined down
111   6  |           back. For the consecrated life and the vocational pastoral
112   6  |      whether in management of daily life or, still more problematically,
113   6  |             as a single, demanding "life plan", or as a "fundamental
114   6  |          the right moment, can make life better, more meaningful
115   6  |        theology and the consecrated life should counter the widespread
116   6  |             meeting, for quality of life and for discernment in His
117   6  |          and witness the God who is life and who wants life (not
118   6  |           who is life and who wants life (not misery and death) for
119   6  |          Church and the consecrated life to hope. I would like to
120   6  |             the significance of our life if we hold firm to the "
121   6  |            motivated and determined life in the sequela and in the
122   6  |          friend of man and lover of life, the gift of our freedom (
123   6  |            quality of the spiritual life and of our culture should
124   6  |            the culture of spiritual life in the contemplative memory
125   6  |   courageous and prophetic forms of life and ministry will arise
126   6  |        service to the "abundance of life" (John 10, 10) for everyone:
127   6  |        counsels", as service to the life of the world, as vital sources
128   6  |         service to the abundance of life". The tendency - which is
129   6  |            the service they give to life. I think that it is the
130   6  |            that is friendly towards life and far from all past attempts
131   6  |        interpret them as hostile to life. Certainly, the evangelical
132   6  |      creation and at the service of life. In their own way, they
133   6  |    intention is love and service to life. This intention is not "
134   6  |           to the God of love and of life. At the same time they are
135   6  |            live in a way that gives life for all and for creation.
136   6  |            not a logic that rejects life or flees from the world;
137   6  |           rather it means welcoming life and showing loving concern
138   6  |         world. It is an "option for life" and choosing to be committed
139   6  |            to be committed wherever life is threatened. It is a decisive "
140   6  |            it ever and again to the life and words of Jesus (cf.
141   6  |            more in examples, in the life culture of individuals or
142   6  |             meeting with the God of life and of our history; a vital "
143   6  |            and the sacrifice of His life, for the continuing presence
144   6  |          dimension, of a culture of life and faith that refines the
145   6  |      meaning and consistency to our life in the midst of all the
146   6  |            in faith in the midst of life. I believe that contemplation
147   6  |         seems as if the consecrated life is condemned to insignificance,
148   6  |          essential to the Christian life, for example trust, selflessness,
149   6  |         generosity, solidarity. The life plan of the sequela - totally
150   6  |      themselves alone, but for the "life of the world", for the poor,
151   6  |            other forms of spiritual life culture: the "contemplative
152   6  |         center and foundation of my life. The cultivation of "purposelessness",
153   6  |        towards a tranquil rhythm of life and discover new sources.
154   8  |         Transformation of Religious Life, New York 1994;~Uwe Gerber (


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155      |        visibility for a Consecrated Life capable of stimulating vocations?~
156      |       visibility of the consecrated life in the context of vocational
157      |        visibility for a consecrated life capable of stimulating vocations?"
158      |           affecting the consecrated life in a particular way, especially
159   1  |          our world, the consecrated life "creates more life"; as
160   1  |      consecrated life "creates more life"; as far as we can tell,
161   1  |            nowadays the consecrated life does not attract young people,
162   2  |            at which the Consecrated Life was actively represented.~~
163   4  |     transparency of the Consecrated Life~I understand that I was
164   4  |     transparency of the consecrated life that actually creates this
165   4  |       visibility of the consecrated life, even though I do not think
166   4  |       visibility of the consecrated life and of the Church. Today,
167   4  |          renewal of the consecrated life; which is an important aspect
168   4  |    important aspect of the way this life is conceived and lived in
169   4  |           model" of the consecrated life which, I think, is opening
170   4  |  revitalization) of the consecrated life. It is time to deal with
171   4  |         elements of the consecrated life and, in so doing, give the
172   5  |          element of the consecrated life in various ways. We find
173   5  |           the document: consecrated life, by the profession of the
174   5  |             expects the consecrated life to provide a significant
175   5  |        presence visible in everyday life (VC 25). The significant
176   5  |       expected from the consecrated life is expressed in various
177   5  |         upon to become a pattern of life and a source of joy (VC
178   5  |        which lets them see that the life is coherent; in order to
179   5  |       visibility of the consecrated life is felt. Might this not
180   5  |      renewal" which the consecrated life is now beginning to feel?~~
181   6  |            want for the consecrated life. Nor do we want the visibility
182   6  |    visibility which the consecrated life must seek is the transparency
183   6  |          that demonstrates a way of life consistent with the mission
184   6  |       visibility of the consecrated life in its totality the surrounding
185   6  |          aspects of the consecrated life, is, or should, this evangelical
186   6  |         elements of the consecrated life, those usually considered
187   6,1|    atmosphere, and, in the end, the life that these people demonstrate
188   6,1|        desire to share in that same life. Here we must not forget
189   6,1|            the symbolic language of life which speaks to desire and
190   6,1|            choosing the consecrated life. In reality, each religious,
191   6,1|            it is the quality of our life that is the visible human
192   6,1|          think that the consecrated life must ask itself in all sincerity
193   6,1|        situation of the consecrated life in our existing cultural
194   6,1|              Today, the consecrated life has to be lived against
195   6,1|           and now’. The consecrated life must certainly be convinced
196   6,1|           risk that the consecrated life may assimilate elements
197   6,2|          factor for the consecrated life is that of life in community;
198   6,2|         consecrated life is that of life in community; today this
199   6,2|       adequate picture of community life within the consecrated life,
200   6,2|         life within the consecrated life, both as it is and as it
201   6,2|         especially if the community life is apostolic. The form religion
202   6,2|          everything necessary for a life of faith, and the vocational
203   6,2|        dimension of the consecrated life. Despite the individualism
204   6,2|          the desire for a fraternal life is one of the elements most
205   6,2|       interested in the consecrated life, and it is precisely those
206   6,2|          Pope places on consecrated life in the post-synodal document,
207   6,2|       zealously encourage fraternal life, following the example of
208   6,2|          communities of consecrated life in the different societies
209   6,2|   evangelical values of consecrated life which can certainly raise
210   6,2|              The effort to engender life in its turn revitalizes
211   6,2|     visibility of renewed community life; such community life will
212   6,2|      community life; such community life will not leave anyone who
213   7  |       dominant culture, the radical life of evangelical poverty provides
214   7  |            the practice of a simple life, generosity and a welcoming
215   7  |            speak of choosing a poor life amongst the poor but afterwards
216   7,1|           visibility of consecrated life. I refer to the apostolic
217   7,1|         vocation to the consecrated life. The post-synodal exhortation
218   7,1|           visibility of consecrated life in our apostolic works.
219   7,1|             even of the consecrated life, put to certain types of
220   7,1|          mission of the consecrated life. To what are we called:
221   7,1|          think that the consecrated life should continue to follow
222   7,1|     difficult to commit one’s whole life to choices one hardly knows,
223   8  |         created for the consecrated life and, therefore, for the
224   8,1|           aspect of the consecrated life. Jesus’ question to the
225   8,1|     experiences on which to found a life wherein they ask what God
226   8,2|           you?"~Can the consecrated life answer that question today
227   8,2|         identity of the consecrated life has suffered a grave crisis
228   8,2|            meant by the consecrated life; experience shows that today
229   8,2|             of what the consecrated life means in the Church; so
230   8,2|         identity of the consecrated life; the problem is to what
231   8,2|            of us in the consecrated life, as well as all who find
232   8,2|            of the various states of life, their vocation and their
233   8,2|         identity of the consecrated life.~My aim is far more modest:
234   8,2|          renewal of the consecrated life.~Young people do not feel
235   8,2|         identity of the consecrated life. It must be visible and
236   8,2|             take Him as the path of life.~The experiences of the
237   8,2|             lives: the testimony of life that we give, how we do
238   8,2|           future of the consecrated life show a notable degree of
239   8,2|    religious aim, a strong communal life, community solidarity and
240   8,2|     dimension.~Does the consecrated life meet these expectations,
241   8,2|         features of the consecrated life - some of which I have described -
242   9  |          the Church~The consecrated life has no meaning if it does
243   9  |        initiative for the spiritual life of the Church. In its surroundings
244   9  |             that in the consecrated life they can "find greater freedom
245   9  |          renewal of the consecrated life in our cultural environment?
246   9  |       behavior and attitudes of our life and mission are obscuring
247   9  |       visibility of the consecrated life and which prevent a transparency
248   9  |             the desire to share our life.  Renewal of the consecrated
249   9  |          Renewal of the consecrated life, in order to be able to
250   9  |         revitalization of community life; that is to say, through
251   9  |           of welcome, simplicity of life, dialogue, poverty, solidarity,
252  10  |            you all: the consecrated life is rooted in God’s plans


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253      |            REVITALIZED" CONSECRATED LIFE~  ~~~This report contains
254      |           future of the consecrated life must on no account be judged
255      |          mission of the consecrated life and the vitality of the
256      |        vocations to the consecrated life is on a steady increase,
257      |   disappearing. For the consecrated life, particularly in the western
258   1  |        vocations to the consecrated life in the context of modern
259   1  |    practical way. A new consecrated life demands new qualities in
260   1  |           challenge the consecrated life to take on new style of
261   2  |           way of living a Christian life and on its meaning for the
262   2  |         visibility of the religious life for the present day and
263   2  |       various groups of consecrated life took on the cultural forms
264   2  |        vocations to the consecrated life is two-pronged, that is,
265   2  |         aspects of this consecrated life.~On the one hand, today’
266   2  |            person. ~The consecrated life has found itself embroiled
267   2  |             meaning the consecrated life holds for the western hemisphere
268   2  |            one hand the consecrated life feels an urgent need to
269   3  |           Institutes of consecrated life, the Assembly sends out
270   3  |            those in the consecrated life to respond with great selflessness
271   3  |             involve the consecrated life not only in its internal
272   3  |            not only in its internal life, but also in its action
273   3  |           member of the consecrated life is an animator, a promoter,
274   3  |         vocation to the consecrated life in all its forms. An authentic
275   3  |            ministry for consecrated life should also understand,
276   3  |            and with other states of life.~~
277   4  |           elements:~Commitment to a life of holiness and to a deep
278   4  |       including women, to share the life, the mission, the spirituality,
279   4  |    participating in the consecrated life ad tempus. It would be good
280   4  |         identity of the consecrated life in the face of pastoral
281   5  |  difficulties which beset our daily life. However, it is also a call
282   5  |            those in the consecrated life implore the Blessed Virgin
283   5  |           following the consecrated life, will know how to bear witness