God’s Call Is Everywhere

UISG workshop, based on the newly published book "God’s Call Is Everywhere. A Global Analysis of Contemporary Religious Vocations for Women".

Video can be found by clicking here 


The book is the first comparative analysis of research in United States, Canada, Australia, and France, along with focus groups and interviews in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and France investigating women who have entered vowed religious life in Catholicism in the twenty-first century.

Listening and Responding in Today’s World
Author: 
UISG
Formation Resources: 
Leadership
Vocation & Discernment
Consecrated Life
Vows
Feminist Spirituality
Video

How to repair and build communion

Lucy Zientek is a Sister of Divine Providence, Melbourne, Kentucky, and currently serves on the leadership team of her congregation's U.S. province. She has 14 years' experience as a research and development scientist prior to entering religious life. She has served on parish pastoral teams in the areas of adult faith formation, Christian initiation and pastoral ministry. She also presents retreats and days of reflection. Supported by an educational background and career and ministry experience in science, theology and spirituality, her special area of interest is the relationship between science and faith.

To read her Nun talk on "How to repair and build communion" visit her blog here. 

Author: 
Sister Lucy Zientek, CDP
Formation Resources: 
Leadership
Consecrated Life
Collaboration
Website

Life-Giving Community: Cultivating Communication, Connection and Compassion

Members and non-members are now able to purchase and access a video recording and presentation files from the Life-Giving Community: Cultivating Communication, Connection and Compassion workshop on Saturday, October 27, 2018 by Kathy Galleher, PhD. Video topics include:

  • Rich community life and how to cultivate it
  • Group development
  • Going deeper, vulnerability and compassion
  • Healthy confrontation and conflict
  • Reflection and sharing on day 

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Formation Resources: 
Consecrated Life
Collaboration
Community Life
Intercultural Aspects

Authenticity, Vocation, & the Risk of Faith: Hopes and Challenges for the Synod on Young People

On September 20 and 21 the RFC participated in the Catholics on Call Partner Conference at Catholic Theological Union. The theme of the Partner Conference and the presentation was entitled, "Authenticity, Vocation & the Risk of Faith: Hopes and Challenges for the Synod On Young People." Fr. Dan Horan, OFM gave an overview of the preparatory materials that have been assembled for the Synod. To access the recorded video of the presentations (part 1 and 2), click:

Part 1

Part 2 

Formation Resources: 
Vocation & Discernment
Consecrated Life
Church and Culture
Ecclesiology

Religious Life Encountering Synodality

Pope Francis is asking every person to look deeply at how the people of God are experiencing ourselves as church and to ask what the Spirit is calling us to as church into the future. The call to members of consecrated life to participate in this process was specifically mentioned in the SYNOD 2023 PREPARATORY DOCUMENT. Additionally, each congregation has received an invitation from the USG (Union of Superiors General) and UISG (International Union of Superiors General) to participate and offer their perspectives.

Discussion with Professor Rafael Luciani and Sr. Maria Cimperman. Professor Luciani, Theology faculty at Boston College, is a member of the Theological Commission for the Synodality process. Sr. Maria, Theological Ethics faculty and Director of the Center for the Study of Consecrated Life, has been named by the UISG and USG to a four-person commission which created a process for congregations and who will encounter the responses from religious congregations and offer a synthesis for the Synod on Synodality.

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Formation Resources: 
Consecrated Life
Church and Culture
Ecclesiology