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1 [Title]| foundresses, as “Word of life”, always remains uncontaminated,
2 [Title]| Because it is “Word of life” the charism shares its
3 [Title]| as much as it is “Word of life” it could also enjoy the
4 [Title]| into the daily-ness of the life of the Church and people
5 [Title]| Council II if consecrated life had always remained uncontaminated,
6 [Title]| foundresses as “Word of life”, and even before that I
7 [Title]| every form of consecrated life, to the humus from which
8 1 | Gospel dimension of religious life ~ ~We know how one of the
9 1 | which designated religious life is “evangelical life”. It
10 1 | religious life is “evangelical life”. It is~born of the Gospel,
11 1 | Jesus, to share fully his life in communion of ideals and
12 1 | expression of religious life, therefore also our story,
13 1 | which lead us to eternal life, and our father (Pacomio)
14 1 | most correct rule for the life of man”. (RB Prologue 35)~
15 1 | Assisi, the Rule is “the life of the Gospel of Jesus Christ” (
16 1 | tenor: “The Rule and the life of the brothers minor is
17 1 | made between the spiritual life and the Word of God, to
18 1 | Scripture with clear truth”. (Life 40.1) While on the one hand
19 1 | new forms of evangelical life. F. Barri, founder of the
20 1 | in 1600 could write: “My life is all lived Gospel”.~ What,
21 1 | grace, “I am spirit and life”. He repeats it with efficacy –
22 1 | of Jesus is “spirit and life”, it is omnipotent, “if
23 1 | word of Christ” become life.~ “Oh, Jesus,” he prays
24 1 | to reach eternal, happy life. It is light because it
25 1 | writes: “Our first Rule and life must be to observe the Holy
26 1 | ultimate norm of religious life”, “the supreme rule” of
27 1 | of forms of consecrated life “like a plant with many
28 1 | every season of the Church’s life”. (5) It therefore recognizes
29 1 | 9)~Because religious life is born of the Gospel and
30 1 | recognizes for religious life the singular task of “remind(
31 1 | Gospel have in the Christian life.” (84). Quoting Paul VI,
32 1 | Gospel.” (105)~Religious life is rooted, therefore, from
33 2 | foundresses, as “Word of life”~ ~Founders and foundresses,
34 2 | charisms of consecrated life can be read as an unfolding
35 2 | charisms of consecrated life, works so that Christ can
36 2 | received the charism to give life to a religious family—beyond
37 2 | embodied specific “Words of life” in a completely special
38 2 | the unity of the Christian life,” writes John Paul II in
39 2(10) | the Synod on consecrated life and the subsequent Apostolic
40 2(10) | a “almost”: “Consecrated life, in its continuous development
41 2 | of his.~ In summary, the life of the Church appears to
42 2 | conscious participation in the life of Christ in the Church,
43 3 | foundresses is “Word of life”, let us now turn to the
44 3 | which is translated into life dimensions, in attitudes,
45 3 | no longer help religious life really.” (II, 14, 3)~ It
46 3 | can scatter sprouts of new life, releasing virtualities
47 3 | capable of new shoots of life.~The Council, in other terms
48 3 | the charism of religious life. Different from other type
49 3 | The charism of religious life does not possess the efficacy
50 3 | rediscover the fullness of Gospel life that feeds that specific
51 3 | men and women led by a new life plan, realizable only to
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