Continue Courageously, for the Love of God
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FORMATION FOR CONSECRATED LIFE IN A PERIOD OF CHANGE
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Our Time is Holy: Lamenting and Dreaming in an Interim Time
Leadership Conference of Women Religious 2024 Annual Assembly - Orlando, Fl
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A vision for the Future of Religious LIfe
Video - A Vision for the Future of Religious Life - click here
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Synodality through a Eucharistic Lens
Eucharist and Synodality are important and related practices of the Church. This article contends that the practice of Eucharist at the local level can either enhance or inhibit our growth as a synodal church with an appropriate synodal spirituality. To achieve this, the article reviews the nature of synodality, and then considers three key aspects of synodality (communion, participation and mission) in their eucharistic enactment
Synodality - Eucharist - Communion - Participation - Mission
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An incredible time: Contemplative leadership at the edge of transformation
Contemplation is a form of prayer, but it is also a way of being.
The author invites leaders to cultivate a contemplative way of being by becoming more open to the Spirit to develop a welcoming heart and a way to listen to others.
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Religious Life for our World: Creating Communities of Hope
UISG-sponsored conversation on Dr. Maria Cimperman's new book, Religious Life for our World: Creating Communities of Hope. Available in English and Spanish.
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Listening to the Lives of Young People
The resource below explores how young people’s religious longings and belongings shift, expand, and change.
The video recording includes a presentation by Dr. Joshua Packard, Executive Director of Springtide Research Institute.
https://learn.ctu.edu/listening-to-the-lives-of-young-people/
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Webinar | Advent Joy: Finding the Rising Star During Uncertain Times
Advent is a time of preparation for joy that has the possibility of changing our lives. In the midst of the current reality, COVID with its uncertainty illness, and death; Climate change with its catastrophic storms, floods, fires, and displacement; demographic and other changes in religious life, reduced energy, and questionable futures, how do we prepare for joy?
Advent gives us a clue with a rising star that led the wise ones to Emmanuel, God with Us.
This webinar by Linda Gibler, OP focuses us on the lessons of stars – How they form in uncertain conditions, how they shine while maintaining a precarious balance, how they create even as they give themselves away, and how they give new life that has changed the course of the Universe.
Formation teams and people attentive to their own formation will find this Cosmo-Centric conversation helpful as they negotiate holding on to joy in the midst of struggle.
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