Sentences with phrase «consecrated life»

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For example, we were invited to send a representative as auditor to the Synod of Bishops in Rome in 1994 dealing with «The Consecrated Life and Its Role in the Church and the World.»

This vagueness is equally found in Keep Watch, the latest document from the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, which Sr Patricia Jordan wrongly attributes to Pope Francis.

Published in February 2015, it presents a timely and providential introduction to essential aspects of religious life in the year of Consecrated Life, which she could not have foreseen when she began to write.

«Personal fulfilment», or rather happiness, is a very real but secondary outcome of consecrated life.

... initiatives... that are already being put into practice... in Institutes of Consecrated Life and in Societies of Apostolic Life, as well as in groups of the faithful and in new communities; 4.

Mary Ann Hinsdale, a theologian at Boston College, wondered what Francis» himself a member of a religious order» understood «of religious in North America» where, apparently, the consecrated life is exceptional and lived differently than the religious life in the rest of the world.

Later there is some evidence for virgins taking formal vows and living either in their own home or in a group under the guidance of bishops such as St Athanasius and St Ambrose, and this continued for centuries until monastic life became the dominant form of female consecrated life.

They would have help in living out this consecrated life.

The sections cover topics ranging from Christ and Mary to the priesthood, the consecrated life, peace, the saints, mission and vocation.

This woman lived a consecrated life, preached the Gospel, gave generously toward God's project, and helped many needy in her area.

During this time, members of Institutes of Consecrated Life and of Societies of Apostolic Life are asked to work towards the new evangelisation with a renewed union to the Lord Jesus, each according to their proper charism, in fidelity to the Holy Father and to sound doctrine.

For the consecrated life (as John Paul II taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the spiritual engine of the Church, in which the energies of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride of Christ, strives for union with her divine spouse.

Something about their consecrated life kept the rest of us on the right track, reminded us of the mystery in which we believe.

Joanne Whittering, a consecrated virgin and Oxford theology graduate, shows how such consecrated living is seen by the modern magisterium as a powerful embodiment of a key meaning of femininity.

All three are at work when religious persons consecrate their lives to the care of leprosy or other peculiarly unpleasant diseases.

To redeem evil is to reunite God with His Shekinah, and this is the ultimate task to which all the ages of men must consecrate their lives.

Saint Francis or Saint Bernard, were they living today, would undoubtedly be leading consecrated lives of some sort, but quite as undoubtedly they would not lead them in retirement.

Not exact matches

«The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

I turn to writer Flannery O'Connor, who, though she never wrote stories about the consecrated or even ostensibly Catholic life, had a great deal to say concerning the intersection of invisible and visible, of grace and nature.

Thus, in discussing «women publicly consecrated to virginity,» the draft says: «Their witness stands out precisely because many achieved a certain autonomy with respect to men, a certain «emancipation» and a self - direction in pursuit of the spiritual life, advanced studies, and apostolic works.»

After the ordination of eight of our brothers, there are over fifty of us studying for the priesthood or preparing to live life as a consecrated brother, about to be joined by fifteen more on July 25.

Having overcome so much in her life — including agnosticism, depression, broken relationships, and even child abuse (revealed in her moving book, My Peace I Give You)-- Eden has decided to make yet another courageous decision, recounted in her last chapter: to make a promise of consecrated celibacy to Christ.

In a homily in Nazareth on 14 May 2009 Pope Benedict dwelt on «the sacredness of the family, which in God's plan is based on the lifelong fidelity of a man and a woman consecrated by the marriage covenant and accepting of God's gift of new life.

The Pope wishes us to pray and consecrate ourselves to God through lives of faith and holiness accompanied by an outpouring of prayer for vocations, without which we would have no Eucharist.

As Selvaggi writes, «the nature of consecrated virginity [is] holiness of body and soul, the one inseparable from the other, both for the glory of God in humble service and modest living in a stable way of life.»

Consecrated virginity can not, of course, be simply an exterior discipline: without a chaste mind and heart, the life of the virgin would not be truly chaste.

But normally the life of the consecrated virgin is rooted in the particular situation of her parish, in which she will wish to be a supportive and unobtrusive presence, in cooperation with her parish priest, and to serve as he considers appropriate.

The Emmanuel Community is a Catholic community of priests, together with consecrated and lay faithful, across the world dedicated to a life of Eucharistic Adoration, works of compassion, and Evangelisation in their daily life and relationships.

In a way I have been writing this book all my life, and from childhood that life has been consecrated to him of whom I write.

Recalling the lives of the consecrated virgins who lived during the few centuries prior to the emergence of structured religious orders, Dohen claimed for herself an ancient precedent for the life of freedom and union with God.

A. Festival Religious festivals were occasions for a break from life's larger concerns, a special time, or «parenthesis» within life, consecrated to the Lord in joy.

Jeremiah did not take his life in his own hands, no doubt because God had declared to him years before, «Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you...» (Jeremiah 1:5).

Can our common life be consecrated?

143:10 Matthew 3:13 — 17 Luther's hymn on Baptism is a wonderful way to observe this festival and great even in our Lord's life: To Jordan Came our Lord the Christ To Jordan came our Lord the Christ, To do God's pleasure willing, And there was by Saint John baptized, All righteousness fulfilling; There did He consecrate a bath To wash away transgression, And quench the bitterness of death By His own blood and passion; He would a new life give us.

I show up here with intention and I try to notice my own life a bit more, I consecrate the ordinary work.

Our concern is not with these, but rather to state simply that the reality of the presence of Christ in the Holy Communion is a given fact of two thousand years of Christian experience, and that Christian worship as it has historically developed has found that in the partaking of the consecrated bread and wine, as Christ commanded, His «spiritual body and blood» — which is to say, the reality of His life, divine and human, in a uniquely intimate and genuine way — have been received as His presence has been known and his person adored.

As if to redress singlehandedly the real and perceived neglect of women's contributions to the Catholic Church, McNamara gives us an exhaustively researched, comprehensively presented, and splendidly written history, from clandestine Roman days to the present, of the women who were consecrated to the lay apostolate or the contemplative life.

indifference stopped short of the vigorous iconoclasm of Calvin, who claimed in the Institutes of the Christian Religion that the only images that belong in churches are «those living and symbolical ones which the Lord has consecrated by his Word.

We need to consecrate our Christian lives and the Church's mission to the Virgin.

By dying He has «consecrated a new and living way through the veil» which separated human experience from the world of supreme reality (x. 20).

When one serves God by all means at one's disposal, one consecrates one's entire life to God, making one's service of God integrated and complete.

The call to religious life is primarily a call to give oneself and be consecrated totally to Jesus Christ until death.

They can live a radical Eucharistic life, poured out for God and for others, a life centred on Jesus Christ which can take on many aspects of poverty, chastity and obedience, and sometimes much more heroically than consecrated religious.

He lives alive and dynamic in the consecrated host, whenever it is lifted above the heads of the people at Mass..

No longer do they view their lives as consecrated together in Christ and for his glory.

I begged him ardently that my life might be consecrated to the doing of his will.

Madiga priestesses were consecrated for the purpose early in their life and no restriction of propriety was imposed on them throughout their life.

Although arriving in his mid-sixties and living well into his eighties, when most men find it necessary to slow down, Theodore traveled extensively through the island, creating dioceses, consecrating bishops, and improving the education of the clergy and the public worship.

The local Bishop, Johann Bonemilch von Lasphe, put the symbolic stole, a long thin scarf, and the chasuble, the vestment, on him and said, «Receive the power of consecrating and sacrificing for the living and the dead.»