Two fundamental principles run through the famous passage from Pope Paul VI’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes (24:3), which reads, “This likeness {between the union of the Divine Persons, and the uni … [Read more...]
Ora et Labora … and Vacation??
June 11, 2014 by Sr. M. Regina van den Berg, FSGM
Religious ... are joined to Christ in his poverty, chastity, and obedience by a “total life-long gift of themselves.” For the consecrated religious, then, times of rest are to serve the total gift of self, as the gift is expressed both in … [Read more...]
Credible Communion: The Witness of Apostolic Religious Life
December 3, 2012 by Gill K. Goulding, CJ
When the Church has been humiliated and vilified by public scandal ... I suggest we need to shift our focus to Christ. Introduction “How can you write anything credible about the witness of religious life today?” I was asked by a disil … [Read more...]
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