Pope Francis: address to Consecrated Life conference
(Vatican
Radio) Pope Francis on Friday addressed the organizers and participants in the
first-ever International Conference for the Vicars and Episcopal Delegates for
Consecrated Life.
Organized
by the Congregation
for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life for
the purpose of the conference is to respond to the call, which the Holy Father
made to Pastors of particular Churches around the world when he proclaimed the
Year for Consecrated Life, “[T]o show special concern for promoting within
[their] communities the different charisms, whether long-standing or recent.”
In
the Letter,
the Holy Father went on to ask them to do this by support and encouragement,
assistance in discernment, and, “tender and loving closeness to those
situations of suffering and weakness in which some consecrated men or women may
find themselves.”
“Above
all,” Pope Francis wrote, “do this by instructing the People of God in the
value of consecrated life, so that its beauty and holiness may shine forth in
the Church.”
In
remarks prepared for the roughly 200 people involved in the initiative and
delivered in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace on Friday, Pope
Francis spoke of the bridge-building and relationship-strengthening roles of
Vicars and Delegates – especially those serving newer communities and
congregations. “Build mutual relations on the basis of an ecclesiology of
communion, on the principle of co-essentiality, and on the autonomy that
belongs rightfully to consecrated persons.”
The
three-day formation congress is being hosted by the Pontifical University Antonianum, the flagship university of the Franciscan
order in Rome, and closes Sunday.
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