Sentences with phrase «consecrated religious»

We are all called to give generously: parents, in the efforts they put in for their children; young adults, in recognising that their bodies are «for the Lord» and should be considered as something holy; consecrated religious, in giving themselves in prayer out of a perfect love for God; and especially priests, who are told at their ordination that they must imitate what they celebrate at the altar.

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.

Not exact matches

While the modern secular person dismisses Being altogether, the modern religious person meets Being only on consecrated ground: it is all deafness to Being, one way or the other.

Such questions may arise because people confuse the vocation of consecrated virginity with the taking of vows of celibate chastity by religious and the consecration to celibacy of the secular priesthood.

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.

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.

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.

Religious people have an obligation to deabsolutize and destigmatize the tempo - ml order in order to consecrate it for service and witness.

Unless we can get out of the new system motherhood as consecrated, spiritual quality as fine, idealism as exalted, religious faith as cleansing and ennobling as distinguished previous generations, the new system will have failed in its most important object.

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

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.

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