What kind of vocations for a renewed consecrated life?…
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  1   1,1|        riches, his relationship with God. It is a fact that we religious
  2   1,2|           belong to it because it is God’s - is therefore less preoccupied
  3   1,2|           only because the center is God, but because the very function
  4   1,2|          Other as such. The Other as God, above all, but also as
  5   1,2|             itself at the service of God’s people, with whom and
  6   1,2|              a relationship with the God of relationships, the God-Trinity,
  7   1,2|  relationships, the God-Trinity, the God of Community, the God who
  8   1,2|            the God of Community, the God who has a face (yes, Him
  9   1,2|            revelation of the face of God. Even more, every charism
 10   1,2|             which, like all gifts of God, is destined not for the
 11   1,2|            shared with the people of God and freed from the initiates’
 12   1,2|              the Spirit, the Word of God, spiritual intuitions, experiences
 13   1,2|           intuitions, experiences of God, the hardships of the pathway,
 14   1,2|          communion in sharing before God both good and evil (the
 15   1,2|             beside the other’ before God, ever more united, sharing
 16   1,2|             A true relationship with God, restoring the person to
 17   1,2|            prayer (relationship with God) produces friendship (relationship
 18   1,2|             not apply exclusively to God but - originating in Him -
 19   2,1|             is hidden with Christ in God (Col. 3, 3). And to discover
 20   2,1|              give oneself totally to God. This supposes a certain
 21   2,1|              Consecrating oneself to God is like becoming aware of
 22   2,1|               to life, to others, to God. "The discovery of having
 23   2,1|         faced with the love given by God, he feels he can do no other
 24   2,1|         because their security is in God and in His constant gift
 25   2,1|          rock of a relationship with God can easily watch, with both
 26   2,1|             joyous humor of choosing God (as confirmed, from this
 27   2,1|               from Francis, who was "God’s jester". to Filipo Neri,
 28   2,2|             to consecrate oneself to God is, by its nature, a vocation
 29   2,2|                because it comes from God and shows one of His plans -
 30   2,2|               to grow old with those God has put around one, in total
 31   2,2|              usually has no trust in God" (C. Chapman) and is certainly
 32   2,2|              their relationship with God risk gradually building
 33   2,2|      building themselves "their own" God, becoming a kind of little
 34   2,2|             sisters as a place where God is waiting for you and through
 35   2,3|             as further proof of what God’s freedom can do when it
 36   2,3|       received in his own life, from God, but not only from God:
 37   2,3|          from God, but not only from God: one’s own history is "the
 38   2,3|       mystery", "it is the sign that God loves me", and helping the
 39   2,3|             that creation belongs to God and offer it up to Him through
 40   2,3|             in a world that talks of God, that remembers Him, even
 41   2,3|           transmit the attraction of God’s gift. Beware therefore
 42   2,3|             to consecrate oneself to God is pointless, it has no
 43   2,3|           most tranquil imagining of God, so the love which comes


“Everything is possible, nothing is certain”…
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 44   1  |     important so that we can do what God expects of us at this stage
 45   1  |              to the active spirit of God and His works, to the Spirit
 46   1  |             is the living reality of God in us, the source from which
 47   1  |            life, our history and our God. An important and fundamental
 48   1  |           witness to the presence of God, His loyalty to the world
 49   2  |            life that I experience in God’s love. Only such a ‘memory’,
 50   2  |          guaranteed by the Spirit of God, makes it possible to interpret
 51   2  |       sensitivity to the presence of God within us and all creation,
 52   6  |           and personal experience of God and of faith; the search
 53   6  |            path is a secret known to God, that the charisms and the
 54   6  |           the New Testament image of God and Jesus Christ and the
 55   6  |        acceptance of "religion" with God, in particular the Christian
 56   6  |             particular the Christian God, the Father of Jesus Christ,
 57   6  |            re-think its own image of God in the sense of a radically
 58   6  |        transcendent", of what or who God is, and what God intends
 59   6  |              or who God is, and what God intends for history. Despite
 60   6  |             should be: a place where God is experienced, a "witness
 61   6  |           experienced, a "witness to God in the world of today".
 62   6  |          than "opting for the living God". On the threshold of the
 63   6  |              places for experiencing God, for meeting, for quality
 64   6  |    represents, serves the Kingdom of God, His justice and His peace,
 65   6  |              in word and witness the God who is life and who wants
 66   6  |    Postmodern times are just as much God’s as all the preceding ages,
 67   6  |               i.e. the experience of God in the midst of the world,
 68   6  |           world, the announcement of God as the friend of man and
 69   6  |         freedom (vows) as worship of God and as service for the liberation
 70   6  |            of a living experience of God. The quality of the spiritual
 71   6  |           existence to the Spirit of God that fills not only the
 72   6  |            whole world, will we meet God, will we learn to know the
 73   6  |             and women consecrated to God should not be distinguished
 74   6  |             it is the very Spirit of God which guides us towards
 75   6  |            service of the Kingdom of God and His justice. Their underlying
 76   6  |             of "consecration" to the God of love and of life. At
 77   6  |             that love as the love of God. The lifestyle of the "evangelical
 78   6  |            it is.~6.11 The Spirit of God reminds the Church of what
 79   6  |            the way to the Kingdom of God she must "continually evangelize
 80   6  |            sacraments. The Spirit of God is, finally, also the guarantee (
 81   6  |         celebrate their roots in the God who is Love (1 John 4, 26)
 82   6  |            experience of faith, that God’s creation, the incarnation
 83   6  |         always be a meeting with the God of life and of our history;
 84   6  |         amazement and our thanks for God’s hand in everything, for
 85   6  |       finally, of the certainty that God will bring everything to
 86   6  |             have), for the Christian God, who revealed himself as
 87   6  |              age is still the age of God, today His Son still becomes
 88   6  |           succeeded in talking about God in a new and encouraging
 89   6  |            of peace and justice, for God who in Jesus Christ came "
 90   7  |             try to unite passion for God, for contemplation, the
 91   7  |      certainty, the conviction, that God’s creation, the incarnation
 92   7  |           means come to an end, that God is still creating, that


“Contagious” vocational promotion
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 93   5  |       visible the marvels wrought by God in the frail humanity of
 94   5  |              making visible a living God (VC 87), a bold prophetic
 95   5  |           also amongst the people of God and in our own religious
 96   6,1|             and mysterious gift from God but it is the quality of
 97   7  |            of how we wish to live in God and for God, without trusting
 98   7  |          wish to live in God and for God, without trusting to material
 99   7,1|               Jn. 10,36), those whom God calls to follow Him are
100   7,1|             that claims to disregard God. More, in some of us this
101   7,1|             a radical ‘posting’ from God, a thorough-going response
102   7,1|              the generous service of God and her/his neighbor.~The
103   7,1| demonstration of our availability to God in whole-hearted generosity
104   7,1|     transcendent, to the Absolute of God who motivates the mission.~
105   8,1|             total gift of oneself to God and such a choice does not
106   8,1|           bring others to experience God is also an interior transparency,
107   8,1|              and the mystery that is God Himself. Quite a lot of
108   8,1|           life wherein they ask what God wants of them. Men and women
109   8,2|            embedded in the people of God, in particular amongst the
110   8,2|            is a strong experience of God and which are a source of
111   8,2|              in following Jesus, and God calls some people to this
112   8,2|             path.~This experience of God as a mystical dimension
113   8,2|        openly perceived as a "man of God", someone who has been seduced
114   9  |             and women consecrated to God who, through a special gift
115   9  |              speaking in the name of God to all, even to the Pastors
116   9  |                  evangelists, men of God seduced by Jesus, friends,
117  10  |        consecrated life is rooted in God’s plans for his Church,
118  10  |         goodness and faithfulness of God towards his People, the


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119   2  |              the man of today, where God himself speaks to him.~~
120   3  |             a profound experience of God and can grow in sensitivity
121   4  |          deep personal experience of God - total spiritual adherence