Download or read book The Priceless Gift A Primer of the Theology of Consecrated Life written by Sr. Pascale-Dominique Nau, OP and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an initiative of the Polish Bishops' Commission for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. The author follows the path of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Vita Consecrata and presents consecrated life like a mosaic.In short articles under specific keywords, he elucidates the most important elements. These articles are assembled in the key of contemporary ecclesiology, using the Church's threefold identity as mystery, community and mission.

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Download or read book Consecrated Life written by Anthony Ikechukwu Kanu O S a and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2014, the Roman Pontiff, Francis I issued a letter for the Year of Consecrated Life, which started throughout the universal Church on the first Sunday of Advent, 30th November, to end on the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, 2 February 2016, a period of fourteen months. In this document, the Holy Father wrote that: ―During this Year, it would be appropriate for each charismatic family to reflect on its origins and history, in order to thank God who grants the Church a variety of gifts which embellish her and equip her for every good work (cf. Lumen Gentium, 12)‖. From the foregoing, it is evident that recounting our history is essential for preserving our identity, for strengthening our unity as a family and our common sense of belonging. More than an exercise in archaeology or the cultivation of mere nostalgia, it calls for following in the footsteps of past generations in order to grasp the high ideals, and the vision and values which inspired them, beginning with the founders and foundresses and the first communities. In this way we come to see how the charism has been lived over the years, the creativity it has sparked, the difficulties it encountered and the concrete ways those difficulties were surmounted. We may also encounter cases of inconsistency, the result of human weakness and even at times a neglect of some essential aspects of the charism. Yet everything proves instructive and, taken as a whole, acts as a summons to conversion. To tell our story is to praise God and to thank him for all his gifts. It is from this background that the first chapter of this work begins with the history of the Consecrated Life. As a background to this history that dates back concretely to the Eremitic Age, this chapter begins by discussing the typologies of the Religious Life and developing a model for the interpretation of this history. Scroll up and click on the BUY button

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Download or read book The Gifts of the Holy Spirit to Unbelievers and Believers written by Clement Read Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This treatise does not seek to enlarge the boundaries of Christian knowledge, unless the attempt to restate the old familiar truths of the gospel of grace in the forms they have assumed in a re-thinking of them under the current modes of thought in the passing era can be so called. The object is wholly practical. There are no new speculations here. The discussion only seeks to extend the applicaion of some of these venerable truths to the practical experience of Christian people, and to restate the terms on which the Christian hope may be obtained by those not yet entitled to indulge it. - Preface.

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