1. What kind of Consecrated Life for "New" Vocations?

One of the causes of the vocational crisis experienced in the last decades, at least in the West, was without doubt a particular image of the vc, no longer as appealing as it once was, no longer an ideal option for young people just facing life, no longer able to understand a certain new sensitivity on the part of young believers.

I do not intend at the moment to present a historical analysis to prove the progressive separation between the world of young people and the vc; more simply, I would like to refer to a factor which I feel to be of strategic importance in this process and central to the related loss of appeal.