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DOCUMENTS on the CONSECRATED LIFE
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DOCUMENTS on the CONSECRATED LIFE
* Please note that many of these files are large and will take a little extra time to download.
SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL
The Adaptation and Renewal of Religious Life (Perfectae Caritatis) - 28/10/65
CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
CCC 871-945 Christ's Faithful - Hierarchy, Laity, Consecrated Life
DOCUMENTS OF THE HOLY FATHER
Message for the 37th Day of Prayer for Vocations - 14/5/2000 "The Eucharist, source of all vocations and ministries in the Church"
Monasteries are "Powerhouses" of Spiritual Energy - 18/7/99
Angelus reflection given outside the Carmelite Monastery of Mater Misericordiae in Quart, Italy.
Message for the World Day for the Consecrated Life - 6/1/97
The Consecrated Life (Vita Consecrata) - 25/3/96
To Men and Women Religious on their Consecration
in Light of the Mystery of Redemption (Redemptionis Donum) - 25/3/84
Consecrated Life 3/4/83. Letter to the Bishops of the U.S.
DOCUMENTS OF POPE PAUL VI
Address to the General Chapters of Religious Orders and Congregations - 23/5/64
On the Renewal of Religious Life
(According to the Teaching of the Second Vatican Council) - 29/6/71
POPE PIUS XII
Counsel to Teaching Sisters - 15/9/51
An Address given to the First International Congress of Teaching Sisters.
Congregation for Institutes of Religious Life and for Societies of Apostolic LifeJubilee of the Consecrated Life - 2/2/00
Consecrated Life within the Church, a Testimony to Christ Yesterday, Today and Forever
Instruction on the Contemplative Life and on the Enclosure of Nuns (Verbi Sponsa) - 13/5/99
Inter-Institute Collaboration for Formation - 8/12/98
Fraternal Life in Community ("Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor") - 2/2/94
On Formation in Religious Institutes - 2/2/90.
Essential Elements in the Church's Teaching on Religious Life as Applied to Institutes Dedicated to Works of the Apostolate - 31/5/83
Religious and Human Promotion - 12/8/80
The Contemplative Dimension of Religious Life - 4/3/80
The Mutual Relations Between Bishops and Religious in the Church (Mutuae Relationes) - 14/5/78
SYNODS OF BISHOPS
We Have Dialogued Enough! We Have Experimented Enough! An Address delivered to the Synod of Bishops in Rome on the subject of Consecrated Life. Bishop James C. Timlin - 1994.
