FOLLOWING JESUS IN RELIGIOUS LIFE What are the

FOLLOWING JESUS IN RELIGIOUS LIFE

What are the pillars in religious life?

Religious life was born in the second century as a substitute to martyrdom. • How do you find ways for a new lifestyle for religious life today?

The first three centuries of Christianity, up to the year 313, was the period called “pagan Roman Empire”. Time of martyrdom. Five great events happened: • Pre-monastic Asceticism • Eremitic Monasticism • Mendicant Orders(IV Century) • Clerics (XII Century) • Religious Institutes (from the contemporary age).

SPIRITUALITY COMMUNITY LIFE HISTORICAL COMMITEMENT

SPIRITUALITY COMMUNITY LIFE FORMATION Professional, Theological, Critical Conscience INTEGRATION PERSON HISTORICAL COMMITMENT

What do you think affects community life: Positively? Negatively?

Community Life v. Self knowledge and personal integration v. Emotional-sexual integration v. Interpersonal relationships (the feminine) v. Communitarian authority and personal authority v. Communication, dialog - Personal disintegration - Gossip… don’t watch your back…

What affects the integration as a person: • Positively • Negatively

Personal Integration v. To deepen vital strengths and the strengths developed in the face of difficulties v. Tend to the healing of wounds v. Work on the stages of life v. Resilience - Not working our personal history…

What affects sipiritual life: • Positively • Negatively

Spirituality v What we understand by Spirituality today v Centrality in Jesus Christ (Christology today from the Good Samaritan and the God of Mercy) v Charismatic roots: Interiorized reading of our spirituality or that of the Institute x. Study of the Gospel according to the Congregational Charisms v Mysticism and asceticism and Prophecy and Wisdom. v Contemplation and interior life in a world where production, consumption and efficiency are priorities. v Discernment today. - Acedia/apathy, activism… personal disintegration, disordered affections/emotions…

What affects intellectual life: • Positively • Negatively

Intellectual • The intellectual (added P. Francisco on November 27 th, 2014. ) v. Professional formation v. Theological and pastoral formation v. Formation of a critical conscience - Not renewed nor updated… - Internet abuse…

What affects apostolic commitement: • Positively • Negatively

Historic or Apostolic Commitment v. Listen to the faces and cries of the world and my country today v. Renew the option for the poor today, and commitment from the JPIC v. Walk with others on the frontiers of mission (Civil Society, LCWR, CLAR) v. Participatory Pastoral Planification v. New ways of living the mission today as RL - Protagonism, activism, search for recognition, success…

What happens when we emphasize one pillar more than another? SPIRITUALITY COMMUNITY LIFE FORMATION Professional, Theological, Critical Conscience CHAO S INTEGRATION AS A PERSON HISTORICAL COMMITMENT

Where did new life come from after the Second Vatican Council? And today? § THE RENEWAL OF RELIGIOUS LIFE TOOK PLACE. How do we live it? § We renewed our community life; HOW DID WE DO IT? § Intensified the commitment to the poor. . . WHERE DO THE POOR LIVE IN MY COUNTRY TODAY? WHERE DOES RELIGIOUS LIFE LIVE TODAY? § How do we live the opportunity of a NEW RELIGIOUS LIFE AT OUR AGE? , HOW DO I WANT TO PROMOTE IT? To configure ourselves more to the life of Jesus of Nazareth by living this situation of poverty without much prestige, dignity, which apparently has no strength, by living what seems to be chaos? Are we committed to a renewed Religious Life in the Spirit who acts from below?

How to ACHIEVE Harmony?

SPIRITUALITY FORMATION COMMUNITY LIFE L OUR SISTERS… ION S S I M FE IS I … HISTORICAL COMMITMENT PERSONAL INTEGRATION