:: Bloom where you are planted :: Recollections with St. Francis de Sales

Bloom where you are planted!          Be what you are, be at its best!!               To be nothing, if not human!!!    -SFS

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Religious Life: Talks

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The spirituality of St. Francis de Sales is a “Spirituality of the Heart,” relevant today as in the time of St. Francis de Sales himself - an all-embracing, Down-to-earth Spirituality for everyone.

World Congress on Religious Life

Instrumentum Laboris of the Congress
Jesus Christ, our Risen Lord, the Mediator of the New Covenant and of the Kingdom, is our contemporary. He does not belong to the past, nor is consecrated life, our form of Christian living, a thing of the past.
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Seekers of Wells and Roads: Two icons for a Samaritan religious life (Dolores Aleixandre RSCJ)

At a small museum in Nazareth there is an interesting capital on a column from a very ancient church: it depicts a woman (Faith?), wearing a queen’s crown, having in her hand a scepter topped off with a cross,... Read more...

Religious Life in the Future (Sandra M. Scheniders, IHM)

My assignment, to talk about the future of Religious Life, is both the best and the worst of tasks. It is the best because no one can prove me wrong in the present. Read more...

Religious Life after 11th Septermber (Timothy Radcliffe, OP)

We live in the shadow of 11th September. We all remember where we were that day. This is not just because it was a terrible event. People in many places have endured worse sufferings since, Read more...

Challenges and New Horizons after the Congress (P. Bruno Secondin, o.carm.)

It has not been easy to let emotions and impressions extol after such an imposing Congress because of the number of participants, of the complexity of the organization, of the richness of ideas and of differences. Read more...

Consecrated Life Today: How far we have come and the future prospects (Luigi Guccini scj)

I was asked to discuss the current situation of the Consecrated Life and its future prospects, as well as to evaluate the work of the Congress and what it communicated to us. Read more...

Formation in Time of Refoundation (Fr. José Rodríguez Carballo, ofm)

The International Congress which we have celebrated has been, no doubt, a moment of grace for Consecrated Life in the Church.

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What the Spirit says today to Consecrated Life (Final Document)

The Congress on Consecrated Life, celebrated in Rome from the 23rd to the 27th of November, 2004 -the last week of the liturgical year -and organized by the two Unions of Superiors General of women and men, was an unprecedented event. Read more...

Message of Pope John Paul II to the Participants at the International Congress on Consecrated Life

To you all, called by God with a special vocation to a closer intimacy with Christ, send my heartfelt greetings. At the end of the International Congress on the Consecrated Life which took place in these days in Rome, I am very pleased to send a special message to all the participants: ... Read more...