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This Instruction establishes the normative principles and the guiding criteria which the Pastors of each diocese and particular Church assimilated to the diocese should apply in the pastoral care of the Ordo virginum. After outlining the biblical foundation and the typical elements of the vocation and witness of consecrated virgins (Part One), the Instruction deals with the specific configuration of the Ordo virginum within the particular Chur...

The document, prepared on behalf of Pope Francis by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. It contains an Application Instruction of the Apostolic Constitution Vultum Dei quaerere, offering "to the Church with particular reference to the monasteries of the Latin rite", with the aim of clarifying the provisions of the law, developing and determining the procedures in its execution.

This volume brings together reflections on the problems inherent in fidelity and perseverance in the state of consecrated life. For this reason, the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life has elaborated some indications or lines of preventive intervention and accompaniment. With this in mind, the present document proposes to provide guidelines which, on the basis of the norms of the Canon Law and of dic...

This Letter is meant to be a common itinerary, a space for personal, communal and congregational reflection about the vocation and mission of religious life in the Church for the salvation of the world. The aim is to contribute in daring evangelical decisions leading to a rebirth and bearing fruits of joy.

This Guidelines provide simple directions for the formation of nuns according to the specific need, in order to support the journey of contemplastive women seeking the true God, the "praying heart in the Church and for the Church", outpost of humanity and parable of the Kingdom oh Heaven.

Still, today may religious men and women be for the Church and for the World, the outposts of care for all of the poor and for all material, moral and spiritual poverty, and examples in overcoming every form of egoism through the logic of the Gospel which teaches us to trust in the Providence of God.

These Guidelines are brought together as an exercise in evangelical discernment, wherein we strive to recognize - in the Light of the Spirit - a call for religious men and women which God causes to resound in our historical and social situation itself.

In the wake of the rich magisterium of pope Francis, this text proposes an ecclesial reflection on the assets and their management in the Church and in religious life, recalls and explains some canonical aspects regarding temporal goods, suggests some tools for planning and programming with respect to the management of the works, urges religious people at all levels to rethink the economic reality in a way faithful to each charism and above al...