From Sunset to Dawn Reflections on refounding
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1 | reality of the refounding of religious institutes is nothing new
2 | day realised that their religious communities had lost the
3 | and legitimate human and religious aspirations of its members
4 | topic of the refounding of religious Institutes is timely, increasingly
5 1 | the form of the "inserted" religious life, a return to Gospel
6 1 | critical situation of some religious institutes lends greater
7 1 | consecrated life that is genuinely religious life and seeking to rediscover
8 1 | and which has come to the religious institutes through history (
9 1 | reach the person of the religious (VC 39), fraternal life
10 1 | twenty years, individual religious and groups have begun to
11 1 | awaits us. Men and women religious will lose a great part of
12 2 | refounding an institute or religious community?~The word refounding
13 2 | spirit of the majority of religious is good; they have good
14 2 | charism in a lucid manner. Religious groups have a great and
15 2 | at a new paradigm of the religious life for a concrete group. ~
16 2 | bless and criticise. When a religious is faithful to the demands
17 3 | people know this, and a few religious are aware of it as well.
18 3 | is increased because some religious feel responsible and partially
19 3 | a universal scale, upon religious. These changes have disoriented
20 3 | disoriented a number of groups of religious who are seeking, without
21 3 | refounding, especially the great religious orders, have expressed a
22 3 | numbers of men and women religious who with conviction continue
23 3 | must change. Those very religious who have served as administrators
24 3 | be like if there were no religious?" (The book of her life,
25 3 | giving "consistency" to the religious and, as a result, continue
26 3 | visible happiness of our religious. ~The identity of the consecrated
27 3 | even offers new paths. Some religious chose to die living in the
28 3 | north and south alike. Being religious counts less; it is something
29 3 | special necessities for the religious and the believe. In these
30 4 | analysis, the fate of a religious institute is in the hands
31 5 | of the conferences of the religious of various countries or
32 5 | the life of some of the religious or communities at this time;
33 6 | the Lord. A revitalised religious life is seeking a spirit
34 7 | the air. People know that religious want to do what cannot be
35 8 | In each person~In each religious of an institute who wants
36 8 | necessary consistency for a religious’ personal fidelity and his
37 8 | of life.~In community~The religious is a member of a community;
38 8 | shine forth. There have been religious who have taken the first
39 8 | are reinforced in their religious spirit? ~It is important
40 8 | individuals with those of the religious community’s life in common
41 8 | alone can they inspire the religious of the group to want and
42 8 | people. Therefore, each religious member of a religious institute
43 8 | each religious member of a religious institute has to right to
44 8 | We could well say, as the religious of Brazil said in their
45 8 | teachers when the educational religious groups arose. However, these
46 9 | commitment and desires of the religious of this end of the century
47 9 | finding ways to live the religious life radically; and to do
48 9 | recall that it is the young religious who ask for this dynamic
49 9 | creative fidelity of the religious life and about hope. ~A
50 9 | solidarity and generosity the religious can enjoy the fullness of
Well plac. charisms Resit. charism:|crit., persp., restruct.
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51 0,Int| theological words of our religious life and our deeds of witness
52 0,Int| If thinking about our religious life, what most strikes
53 0,Int| to take priority, and our religious life must find new places,
54 0,Int| or place the charisms of religious life. And these options
55 0,Int| or reason: why does our religious Congregation ¾ founded 50,
56 0,Int| poses such a great danger to religious life that an entire Assembly
57 0,Int| meanings and values of our religious life get established, undergo
58 0,Int| particular concerns of our many Religious Congregations.~The first
59 0,1 | important words we use in religious life since Vatican II have
60 0,1 | their importance.~Changes in religious life respond to changes
61 0,1 | our assignment. We mature religious, our responses shaped by
62 0,1 | ago, represent existing religious life. These attitudes and
63 0,1 | Younger" generation means religious in formation, before final
64 0,1 | different Church. For them, too, religious life is a question of "ricollocazione":
65 0,1 | with this concrete form of religious life (as lived in this novitiate,
66 0,1 | of faith in Jesus Christ, religious life, ordained and other
67 0,1 | thereby fulfilling my human, religious and priestly vocation?
68 0,1 | other, here the evolution of religious life depends intrinsically
69 0,1 | established, used and protected.~Religious who, immersed in the conflictual
70 0,1 | attraction for candidates. Young religious, in cooperation with their
71 0,1 | community life, and young religious often live these values
72 0,1 | limited to the early phases of religious life. The process reaches
73 0,2 | to be charismatic).~Each religious family, under the Holy Spirit
74 0,2 | significance of tensions in religious life. We are learning to
75 0,2 | great difficulties faced by religious life over the years are
76 0,2 | conflicts and divisions in religious life. Dogmatism or ideology
77 0,2 | and enrich what we do as religious immersed in contemporary
78 0,2 | and new image!) to our religious life.~ ~
79 0,3 | one another." As in many Religious Congregations, this option
80 0,4 | but indeed for living our religious life.~In section 3, we see
Process of ref. the charism of the soc. of the S. Heart…
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81 0,Int| continents and number some 3600 religious. Like most congregations,
82 0,1 | of refounding. Like every religious congregation, we passed
83 0,1 | We have understood that religious life is not the only "way
84 0,1 | step: the Church as well as religious life is being called to
85 0,1 | regarding the meaning of religious life and the form of living
86 0,1 | searching to express what religious life is today.~ ~
87 0,3 | the congregation and from religious life. The loss of visibility
88 0,4 | meant listening to our young religious and searching with them
89 0,4 | present is a way of living religious life which has attracted
90 0,4 | new expression of feminine religious life. We need to develop
91 0,4 | non-believers and persons of other religious traditions who have a deep
92 0,4 | belongs to a commune of religious women who put their goods
93 0,4 | father of Hozana, a young religious in Brazil. He himself had
94 0,4 | things without entering religious life. But if you have heard
95 0,4 | intuition the real meaning of religious life.~The challenge of refounding
96 0,4 | discover this prophetic form of religious life in a feminine space,
97 0,4 | space to develop this new religious life.~And we RSCJ need to
98 0,4 | numerous. Ours is a form of religious life for the few because
Ways of refound. the charism by prom. vocations
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99 | One took place in my own religious Province, in Paraguay. (
100 | including about ten Sisters, religious and priests. As regards
101 | vocation: lay, priestly or religious life." The results of this
102 | scholastics and 3 women religious. All of this began twenty
Towards the ref. of the charism in new formative itin.
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103 | the actualisation of the religious charism (RC) and gives the
104 0,1 | young. On the contrary, the religious "strayed dog" or one who
105 0,1 | understand that thanks to the religious vocation, he has been given
106 0,1 | entrusts himself to the religious family and this in its turn,
Ways of ref. charism by liv. today’s spirituality
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107 | refoundation" we followed in my religious Institute after the Council,
108 0,1 | a legalistic outlook on religious life (the Constitutions
109 0,1 | instead of trying to be "religious in the world", live and
110 0,2 | renew the Constitutions of Religious Institutes initiated a process
111 0,2 | formation for the future of religious life was taken seriously.
112 0,2 | spirituality for all our religious. The attempt was made above
113 0,2 | offered to groups of our religious from all over the world.~
Redesigning presence: crit., persp., restructuring
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114 0,1 | with more recent times when religious values had an importance
115 0,1 | services of men and women religious had an evident social function.
116 0,1 | inefficacious: loss of the religious sense, ethical disorientation,
117 0,1 | experience of the believer and of religious. We find abundant indications
118 0,2 | present poor visibility of religious life is to be attributed
119 0,2 | those words of Paul VI about religious: "Their apostolate is often
120 0,2 | the social, cultural and religious fields. People know that
121 0,3 | victims of racial conflict, religious discrimination and deliberately
122 0,3 | particularly recommended to religious. They, in fact, because
123 0,3 | hoped therefore that all religious will be for the poor, that
124 0,3 | spirituality, the support for religious experience, the sustaining
125 0,3 | Consecrata as a specific task of religious in no matter what environment
126 0,3 | a widespread but vague religious sense, the desire to deepen
127 0,3 | able to become involved, religious are asked for their personal
128 0,3 | role of communion to which religious are called in the universal
129 0,3 | which is well suited to religious institutes.~The mission
130 0,3 | but going further still, religious are invited to start up
131 0,3 | together. In such aggregations religious take part sincerely in activities
132 0,3 | Vita Consecrata has seen religious life as a privileged place
133 0,3 | is shared by all deeply religious persons. This therefore
134 0,3 | be given effect wherever religious find themselves, and a setting
135 0,3 | commitment on the part of religious, not only as qualified specialists
136 0,4 | redefinition of the role of the religious so that they become an "
Redesigning our presence as fraternity
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137 0,2 | evangelical and for building a religious, missionary fraternity. "
Redesigning pres. in new missionary realities…
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138 0,3 | the past among missionary religious congregations, there is
139 1 | relationships of friendship and religious fraternity.~The sense of
140 1 | first World Congress of the Religious, that the adoption of the
141 1 | weeklies, with only the inside religious personnel: the working hours
142 2,Int| evangelical vitality of the RELIGIOUS LIFE and in their deeply
143 2,2 | mainly in the form of "religious acts" which do not threaten
144 2,3 | circumstances - family, social, religious, cultural, economical, etc.~
145 1,1 | say that a number of young religious have come looking for them
146 2,a | Murder on several religious~~~~letter to Minister Home
147 2,b | ECUMENICAL CONSULTATION~FOR RELIGIOUS~Report to the USG of the
148 2,b | Ecumenical Consultation for Religious (PIECR) was established
149 2,b | among the Institutes and Religious Orders of the two denominations.
150 2,b | ecumenical conference for religious was formally constituted
151 2,b | Consultative Council on Religious Life of the~Anglican Church.
152 2,b | concrete experiences of religious and ecclesial life. These
153 2,b | expressions of the same religious life as followers of Jesus.
154 2,b | witness to the spiritual and religious life constituted an environment
155 2,c | document of the "Commission for religious relations with Judaism"
156 2,d | Churches (sending priests and religious to areas with a more acute
157 2,d | presence and mission of religious in Africa, a presence and
To re-design our presence with the interl. of the pres. global cult.
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158 | relationships of friendship and religious fraternity.~The sense of
159 | first World Congress of the Religious, that the adoption of the
160 | weeklies, with only the inside religious personnel: the working hours
Reint. of the presences in the form. and educ. of today
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161 0,Int| evangelical vitality of the RELIGIOUS LIFE and in their deeply
162 0,2 | mainly in the form of "religious acts" which do not threaten
163 0,3 | circumstances - family, social, religious, cultural, economical, etc.~
USG 54a Assembly - November 1998
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164 1,1 | say that a number of young religious have come looking for them
165 2,a | Murder on several religious~~~~letter to Minister Home
166 2,b | ECUMENICAL CONSULTATION~FOR RELIGIOUS~Report to the USG of the
167 2,b | Ecumenical Consultation for Religious (PIECR) was established
168 2,b | among the Institutes and Religious Orders of the two denominations.
169 2,b | ecumenical conference for religious was formally constituted
170 2,b | Consultative Council on Religious Life of the~Anglican Church.
171 2,b | concrete experiences of religious and ecclesial life. These
172 2,b | expressions of the same religious life as followers of Jesus.
173 2,b | witness to the spiritual and religious life constituted an environment
174 2,c | document of the "Commission for religious relations with Judaism"
175 2,d | Churches (sending priests and religious to areas with a more acute
176 2,d | presence and mission of religious in Africa, a presence and
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