If we do that, we change. We become who God wants us to become. As a conference, the LCWR has embraced change, but there is a way in which we want to embrace it, an attitude that we need to have. We need to do it from a contemplative stance that allows us to notice, to really pay attention, to look at things, and to listen deeply. I was in the class of one novice. One novice. We need to know our history. But we need to own our identity. We live the present. Then we can start to look around and discover there are new things we can do.
First of all, we need to let go of our lamentations for the past, to look at the present as a gift, and to look at the amazing things the present offers us, especially with young people. I went, and I had an incredible conversation with them. They live a simple life. They really care about other people and community. There are others with us, not just religious men and women but also laypeople in the Catholic Church, the people we serve, men and women who are trying to make a difference in the world.
In many ways, women religious are coming home. Congregation of St. In many ways, we need to let go of that institutional mindset. We really need to nurture our institutions and strengthen them, because that is critical right now.
We have to figure out a way to partner with other organizations, with the laypeople who share our charism and ministry. We need to care about them, promote them, and stay with them in many ways. I like to say that we need be the madrinas , the godmothers. A long time ago, I saw a training video about the differences between pioneers and settlers.
Religious life really needs to have a pioneer spirit. We need to keep moving to the next. Once we get there, we create institutions, we create, and we organize. We need our hospitals and our universities to be great places that can really thrive for the community and witness to mission. We also need to start moving to these new frontiers. They are different kinds of frontiers. They could be cultural. We need to engage with a conversation with our culture, with the people here.
We need to have interfaith conversations. We need to be in those places where we meet people of other faiths, learn and respect each other, and hold that space in between. We need to be in conversation and meet people with their different political ideologies and learn civil discourse.
Right now, the U. This is where the U. Catholic Church can recognize the gifts that the Latino community brings. An encuentro understood in the cultural sense of the Latino community is always a fiesta. You clean the house. You prepare food for them. Just because you got together. Often there is music. In many ways, we need an attitude of encuentro , of coming together.
We need to celebrate it, because when we get it, when it happens, when you have a really good conversation, you leave that space with joy.
Something transformed you. In many ways, we need to have a fiesta mentality in the U. I can invite everybody, but if I dance with you, something happens. It also has to do with the use of the arts, music, and symbolism. We have lost the place of art in our life. Our experience of God needs to show some of it. For example, I love African liturgies.
The movement, the dancing, the music, and art need to be part of our experience, of how we share our experience of God. Fiesta has many, many dimensions. As Americans we sometimes forget that. We just schedule everything in. You need to leave a little room. I also think there is this whole sense that fiesta celebrates diversity. The difference that comes together, can stay together, can celebrate, dance, and share the meal.
In my earlier experiences in community we had a lot of sisters in Latin America, in very, very poor parts of the country. I never understood why these people who had so little would go all out on a party. Why are you spending all this money on the fireworks? We have enough. In Christianity, a group of men or women who live under religious vows. The three vows commonly taken are to relinquish all possessions and personal authority vows of poverty and obedience and not to engage in sexual relations a vow of chastity.
A religious congregation is a type of religious institute in the Catholic Church. They are legally distinguished from religious orders — the other major type of religious institute — in that members take simple vows, whereas members of religious orders take solemn vows.
Within the Roman Catholic church , there are two types of priests : the secular clergy and those who are part of religious orders. The first group are known as diocesan priests , and will often though not always be attached to a parish and are accountable to a local bishop.
The monastic nuns are the most devout. The mendicant type of nuns support themselves off of alms but do not necessarily live at a convent or monastery. Since the Jesuits were the largest religious order holding real estate, surpassing the Dominicans and Augustinians who had accumulated significant property, this was no small matter.
The typical parish priest is usually a diocesan priest. He makes a promise of obedience to the local bishop and a promise of celibacy. Do priests have to be virgins? So no, virginity is apparently not a requirement, but a vow of celibacy is. Priests have the right to drink alcohol.
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