bold = Main text
Part, § grey = Comment text
1 Int,1 | more intense evangelical life, and broken open the horizons
2 Int,1 | closely imitating the form of life of Jesus Christ, assume
3 Int,1(4) | Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic
4 Int,1(4) | and Societies of Apostolic Life (21 September 2001): L'Osservatore
5 Int,2 | present now as always in human life and culture?6 How do we
6 Int,2 | each other.7 ~Consecrated life, in its continuous development
7 Int,2 | I still live my human life, but it is a life of faith
8 Int,2 | human life, but it is a life of faith in the Son of God
9 Int,2 | who loved me and gave his life for me” (Gal 2:20). ~ ~
10 Int,3 | Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic
11 Int,3 | and Societies of Apostolic Life held its Plenary Session
12 Int,3 | of the various states of life willed by Jesus for his
13 Int,3 | priests, studied Consecrated Life and its mission in the Church
14 Int,3 | dimensions of consecrated life in a Trinitarian theological
15 Int,3 | the mission of consecrated life within the people of God.
16 Int,3 | Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic
17 Int,3 | and Societies of Apostolic Life while at the same time,
18 Int,3 | consecrated and evangelical life. It must continue to be
19 Int,4 | all forms of consecrated life throughout the world, has
20 Int,4 | had a great impact on the life of the Church. On 2 February
21 Int,4 | the Jubilee of Consecrated life was celebrated in all the
22 Int,4 | Consecrata: Christ, the centre of life for every Christian,11 the
23 Int,4 | effects of the sacramental life,14 the spirituality of communion,15
24 Int,4 | rather to help consecrated life enter into the great pastoral
25 Int,4 | challenges of consecrated life in the context of the local
26 Int,4 | present state of religious life and seeking to remain attentive
27 Int,4 | experiences which consecrated life is experiencing in the Church
28 Int,4 | esteem for what consecrated life is and for what it does (
29 Int,4 | and quality of consecrated life (Part II). The most important
30 Int,4 | commitment to the spiritual life, starting afresh from Christ
31 Int,4 | world, where the Trinitarian life spreads communion in a renewed
32 1 | Part One ~ ~CONSECRATED LIFE:~THE PRESENCE OF THE LOVE
33 1,5 | of ecclesial and social life, the members of the Plenary
34 1,5 | the gift of consecrated life which seeks you in faith
35 1,5 | it participates in the life of the Trinity and confesses
36 1,5 | and Societies of Apostolic life, hermits and consecrated
37 1,5 | themselves to the same style of life which he chose for himself.19
38 1,6 | living that consecrated life progressively matures to
39 1,6 | culture. Given this style of life and the search for the Absolute,
40 1,6 | of the Church, for human life and the very life of the
41 1,6 | human life and the very life of the Church.21 ~In addition
42 1,6 | the ecclesial charisms to life, the hidden and fruitful
43 1,7 | recent years consecrated life has undertaken paths of
44 1,8 | specific mission of consecrated life.25 ~Consecrated women and
45 1,8 | which impels them to live a life in imitation of Christ,
46 1,8 | primacy of God and of eternal life, as evidenced in the following
47 1,8 | renewed need for prayer.30 Life's events, even in their
48 1,8 | an evangelical quality of life contributes to the keeping
49 1,9 | world. Indeed, consecrated life itself, guided by the action
50 1,9 | among us that we “might have life and have it to the full” (
51 1,9 | effective sacrificing of life.35 ~While carrying out the
52 1,9(37) | Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic
53 1,9(37) | and Societies of Apostolic Life, Verbi Sponsa, Instruction
54 1,9(37) | Instruction on the Contemplative Life and the Enclosure of Nuns,
55 1,9 | and love in consecrated life has been further and notably
56 1,10 | diverse forms of consecrated life, while always in progress,
57 1,10 | is a particular bond of life and dynamism between the
58 1,10 | Holy Spirit and consecrated life. For this reason, consecrated
59 1,10 | The future of consecrated life is therefore entrusted to
60 2,11 | encountered in living consecrated life. We are all aware of the
61 2,11 | purification which consecrated life is undergoing in these days.
62 2,11 | which trouble consecrated life today, we do so, not to
63 2 | and Quality of Consecrated Life ~ ~
64 2,12 | question of whether consecrated life is still a visible witness,
65 2,12 | traditional forms of consecrated life? Consecrated life, John
66 2,12 | consecrated life? Consecrated life, John Paul II reminds us,
67 2,12 | that, at times, consecrated life has not seemed to have been
68 2,12 | future. ~In addition to the life giving thrust, capable of
69 2,12 | of martyrdom, consecrated life also experiences the insidiousness
70 2,12 | mediocrity in the spiritual life, of the progressive taking
71 2,12 | secularism and an authentic life of faith, between the fragility
72 2,13 | questioning which religious life is experiencing today can
73 2,13 | potentialities of this form of life. ~Having to live in a society
74 2,13 | bearers and servants of life. ~The evangelical counsels
75 2,13 | the pollution of spirit, life and culture; they proclaim
76 2,13 | appreciation of consecrated life in some sectors of the Church
77 2,13 | purification. Consecrated life does not seek praise and
78 2,13 | of God, to be a seed of life which grows in secret, without
79 2,13 | are capable of filling a life to the brim and giving it
80 2,13 | exquisite the witness of life and charismatic service
81 2,13 | belonging to a state of life particularly adapted to
82 2,13 | sign value of consecrated life in relation to the holiness
83 2,13 | of making Christ's way of life shine through the witness
84 2,13 | charisms of consecrated life, which are at the same time
85 2,13 | the living of consecrated life itself whose witness is
86 2,14 | and quality of consecrated life a fundamental task is that
87 2,14 | raison d'être of consecrated life, and to help those entrusted
88 2,14 | Congregation's document Fraternal Life in Community remain a topic
89 2,14 | participation in the community's life and mission is required
90 2,14 | community can work out their own life with the plan of God, together
91 2,14(46) | Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic
92 2,14(46) | and Societies of Apostolic Life, Fraternal Life in Community, “
93 2,14(46) | Apostolic Life, Fraternal Life in Community, “Congregavit
94 2,14 | Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic
95 2,14 | and Societies of Apostolic Life, will help light the way
96 2,14(49) | Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic
97 2,14(49) | and Societies of Apostolic Life, Directives on Formation
98 2,15 | limited to one period of life. Not only to enable them
99 2,15 | importantly because consecrated life itself, of its nature, calls
100 2,15 | If, in fact, consecrated life is in itself “a progressive
101 2,15 | thinking of consecrated life which is in itself a never
102 2,15 | freedom to learn throughout life, in every age and season,
103 2,15 | to be formed by everyday life, by their own community,
104 2,15 | into the various rhythms of life itself (days, weeks, months,
105 2,15 | which the mysteries of the life of the Son of God are relived
106 2,16 | challenges which consecrated life must face today. On the
107 2,16 | to enter into consecrated life, a renewed faith in God
108 2,16 | promotion to consecrated life is that which the Lord himself
109 2,16 | accompanied by the sharing of life requires that consecrated
110 2,16 | share the ideal of their life with young people, allowing
111 2,16 | choice to give one's whole life to the cause of the Kingdom,
112 2,17 | the future of consecrated life. The decrease in vocations
113 2,17 | presence of consecrated life in the Church and new cultural
114 2,17 | Institutes. This state of life which, through the profession
115 2,17 | Institute of Consecrated Life and Society of Apostolic
116 2,17 | and Society of Apostolic Life, calling them to give strong
117 2,17 | freedom which springs from a life of poverty whose only treasure
118 2,17 | contained in an obedient life whose only goal is to carry
119 2,17 | of authentic evangelical life and ways of arriving at
120 2,17 | values of human and Christian life. Consecrated persons must
121 2,17 | Communicating one's own life experience always entails
122 2,18 | the doors of consecrated life present great diversity
123 2,18 | very purpose of consecrated life is conformity to the Lord
124 2,18 | spiritual and apostolic life of the Institute and will
125 2,18 | Christian announcement of life as vocation, that is, one
126 2,18 | the style of community life and the apostolic projects
127 2,18 | Institutes of Consecrated Life are increasingly characterized
128 2,18 | of the meaning of human life today. This calls for a
129 2,18 | orientation to the spiritual life, models more adapted to
130 2,19 | placed on the quality of life and the demands of formation
131 2,19 | Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic
132 2,19 | and Societies of Apostolic Life wishes to be close to consecrated
133 2,19 | Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic
134 2,19 | and Societies of Apostolic Life. Their presence in the local
135 2,19 | to incarnate consecrated life, adaptation of forms of
136 2,19 | applicable to consecrated life. “In the third millennium,
137 2,19 | inculturation in consecrated life and in the whole Church
138 2,19 | expectations of consecrated life at the beginning of this
139 2,19 | John Paul II, consecrated life must clearly start afresh
140 2,19 | ways of spirituality as life, teaching and pastoral practice. “
141 2,19 | Only then will consecrated life find new vitality to place
142 3 | Part Three ~SPIRITUAL LIFE IN THE FIRST PLACE~ ~
143 3,20 | 20. Consecrated Life, like all forms of Christian
144 3,20 | like all forms of Christian life, is by its nature dynamic
145 3,20 | sense of the word, that is, life according to the Spirit.
146 3,20 | the Spirit. Consecrated life today needs a spiritual
147 3,20 | consecration. ~“The spiritual life must therefore have first
148 3,20 | Families of consecrated life, in such a way that every
149 3,20 | communion. Clearly consecrated life needs a renewed striving
150 3,20 | the simplicity of everyday life, aims at the radicalness
151 3,20 | relationship with the Lord, in a life of communion and in the
152 3,20 | the model of Trinitarian life as the starting point, according
153 3,20 | holiness within consecrated life itself and in its radiance
154 3,21 | the centre of consecrated life and once again take up the
155 3,21 | cf. Lk. 24:13-22). Their life is the proclamation of the
156 3,22 | proclaiming that consecrated life is a special following of
157 3,22 | become the centre of their life and the continual source
158 3,22 | his mind and his way of life”,67 and it is a life “taken
159 3,22 | of life”,67 and it is a life “taken up by Christ”,68 “
160 3,22 | by the hand of Christ, a life where his voice is heard,
161 3,22 | where his voice is heard, a life sustained by his grace”.69 ~
162 3,22 | his grace”.69 ~The whole life of consecration can be summarized
163 3,22 | openness to his will; Community life is motivated by the One
164 3,22 | Institutes of Consecrated Life. These are the ideals which
165 3,22 | loved me and gave up his life for me” (Gal 2:20).~Only
166 3,22 | living for. Obedience places life entirely in Christ's hands
167 3,23 | The path which consecrated life is called to take up at
168 3,23 | himself present in daily life he is still present in daily
169 3,23 | is still present in daily life today where he continues
170 3,23 | renewed commitment in the life of the Spirit. These are
171 3,23 | opportunity to re-read in life and in daily experiences
172 3,23 | rise to the spark of new life and new works, the specific
173 3,24 | Word of God should become a life giving encounter... which
174 3,24 | of God is nourishment for life, for prayer and for the
175 3,24 | Incarnate Word”.74 ~Community life also fosters the rediscovery
176 3,25 | Word. Without an interior life of love which draws the
177 3,25 | Jn14:23). As a consequence life itself loses meaning, the
178 3,25 | vocation to consecrated life is born in contemplation,
179 3,25 | Every reality of consecrated life is born and is regenerated
180 3,25 | of Societies of Apostolic Life the proclamation of the
181 3,25 | central position in the life of all types of communities
182 3,25 | An authentic spiritual life requires that everyone,
183 3,26 | sacrifice, the heart of the life of the Church and of every
184 3,26 | the project of community life and the apostolic mission.
185 3,26 | order to bring every day life into sacred time which is
186 3,26 | commitment of giving one's life for others in acceptance
187 3,27 | cross Jesus gives his very life as the greatest gift of
188 3,27 | into the world to give his life as a ransom for many (cf.
189 3,27 | The history of consecrated life has expressed this configuration
190 3,27 | present in the heart and life of all, and discovering
191 3,27 | provided the hope of new life where discouragement and
192 3,28 | 28. If “the spiritual life must have first place in
193 3,28 | Families of consecrated life”89 it should be above all
194 3,28 | undertaking from consecrated life because of its specific
195 3,28 | its specific vocation to a life of communion in love. In
196 3,28 | the tasks of consecrated life today is that of spreading
197 3,28 | of all in their internal life and then in the Church community,
198 3,28 | communion is the rule of life. ~ ~
199 3,29 | words, capable of giving new life to relationships and programs,
200 3,29 | exemplary task for consecrated life on all levels. It is the
201 3,29 | highway for the future of life and witness. Holiness and
202 3,29 | presenting this form of life as a sign of communion in
203 3,29 | demands expected of community life. Earlier our Dicastery had
204 3,29 | Christi amor, on community life. Every community should
205 3,30 | new forms of evangelical life. These new associations
206 3,30 | associations of evangelical life, Vita Consecrata reminds
207 3,30 | new forms of evangelical life can learn a great deal from
208 3,30 | charismatic witness of consecrated life which bears a very rich
209 3,30 | new forms of consecrated life in view of a growth in life
210 3,30 | life in view of a growth in life in the Spirit and of the
211 3,30 | fullness of evangelical life in the world, coming together
212 3,30(97) | Cf. Fraternal Life in Community, 62; cf. Vita
213 3,31 | experienced in the internal life of the community must be
214 3,31 | vocation to consecrated life once again find its specific
215 3,31 | vocations and states of life especially among consecrated
216 3,31 | at the level of everyday life.100 ~The new phenomenon
217 3,31(99) | Cf. Fraternal Life in Community, 70.~
218 3,31 | beauty of each state of life. Communion and mutuality
219 3,31 | identity of consecrated life. As the understanding of
220 3,32 | vocations and states of life is that of unity with Bishops.
221 3,32 | foundresses of consecrated life and which becomes the charismatic
222 3,32 | Institutes of Consecrated Life. They praiseworthily carry
223 3,32 | charisms of consecrated life be recognized. The coexistence
224 3,32 | The coexistence in the life of the Church between the
225 3,32 | special way, for consecrated life. Love and service in the
226 4,33 | 33. A life transformed by the evangelical
227 4,33 | In its own right, the life of communion is the first
228 4,33 | first message of consecrated life, since it is an efficacious
229 4,33 | fervour and a witness of life which conforms to their
230 4,34 | of all, the witness of a life given totally to God and
231 4,34 | rather give their whole life to participating in the
232 4,35 | at the lack of meaning in life, drug addiction, fear of
233 4,35 | better possibilities for the life and development of the individual.
234 4,36 | called for,120 consecrated life admirably safeguards the
235 4,36 | of our time. ~Consecrated life has manifested the desire
236 4 | Serving Life~ ~
237 4,38 | difficult experiences of human life and death with goodness
238 4,39 | consecrated persons give life to educational undertakings
239 4,39 | promoted in consecrated life. A presence in social communication
240 4,40 | opened by him. Consecrated life cannot be content living
241 4,40 | conviction. ~Consecrated life is thus called to make its
242 4,41 | the Synod on Consecrated life highlighted the close connection
243 4,41 | connection between consecrated life and ecumenism. “Since the
244 4,41 | Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic
245 4,41 | and Societies of Apostolic Life certainly have a special
246 4,41 | Institute of Consecrated Life should feel itself dispensed
247 4,41 | service and witness will give life to the experience of how
248 4,42 | Common concern for human life ranging from compassion
249 4,44 | which nourish consecrated life. Thus we give witness to
250 4,44 | precious values for their life and mission. “The Spirit
251 4,45 | respect for every human life from the moment of conception
252 4,45 | the common conditions of life, they effectively work for
253 4,46(145)| Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic
254 4,46(145)| and Societies of Apostolic Life, Potissimum Institutioni,
255 4,46 | The future of consecrated life and its mission rests in
256 4,46 | charisms of consecrated life are mirrored and renewed
257 4,46 | invitation of St. Paul: “Live a life worthy of the calling you
258 4,46 | Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic
259 4,46 | and Societies of Apostolic Life. ~Rome, 19 May 2002, The
|