Apostolic Creativity “One cannot be an apostle without being creative; and without being creative, one cannot be a missionary.”[1] Hence, for us who confess to be “essentially missionaries,”[2] one of the non-negotiable elements adjoined to the charism of the Institute is precisely apostolic creativity. It is an element that follows from the very mandate […]
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To the Parish Priests of the IVE Number 169 of the Constitutions reads, “The Institute of the Incarnate Word will take on the works of apostolate most conducive to the inculturization of the Gospel”. For this reason, “In response to Bishops’ requests, the Institute can accept requests to help parishes, preferably in missionary areas or
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The “Absolutely” and “Totally” “Essentials” Cf. Constitutions, 17, 95, 174 and 210; Directory of Spirituality, 37 Upon reading our proper law, especially the Constitutions and Directory of Spirituality, which are our principal documents, you notice that the term essential is used five times.* On two of these occasions, our proper law adds the adverbs “absolutely”[1]
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Our Badge of Honor: to Belong to the Church Cf. Directory of Spirituality, 227 In one of its first paragraphs, our Constitutions declare that “We want to always be rooted in Jesus Christ, […], for no one can lay any other foundation[1] than Christ, the Rock[2]. We want to love and serve Jesus Christ –
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Rome, August 1, 2019 Being in the world without being of the world Directory of Spirituality, 46 Dear Fathers, Brothers, Seminarians and Novices: On the 6th of August we will commemorate with great joy and solemnity the specific end of our very small Religious Family, the evangelization of the culture, that is, to transfigure it
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Directory of Consecrated Life, 2 Rome, Italy, September 1, 2017 Dear Fathers, Brothers, Seminarians, and Novices, The Sacred Congregation for Religious and for Secular Institutes (current CIVCSVA), in its document “Essential Elements of the Church’s Teaching on Religious Life,” teaches that “religious consecration is lived within a given institute according to constitutions which the Church,
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Rome, Italy, July 1, 2017 Dear Priests, Seminarians, Brothers, and Novices, “One cannot be an apostle without being creative; and without being creative, one cannot be a missionary.” For us, who confess to have an “essential call to be missionaries,” one of the non-negotiable elements of the charism of our Institute is precisely this apostolic
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Constitutions, 31 Rome, Italy, April 1, 2017. Dear Priests, Brothers, and Seminarians, Within a few weeks, we will be celebrating the joy of the Paschal Mystery, which is for us “an inexhaustible source of spirituality,”[1] and “the manifestation par excellence of the love of God for men,”[2] for, He loved them to the end.[3] How
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March 1, 2017 Dear Fathers, Brothers, and Seminarians, As we approach the sacrosanct mystery of the Incarnation of the Word in the most pure womb of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, I want to greet you all yet again with great affection. Contemplating deeply the marvelous event in which our spirituality finds its roots, that
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January 1, 2017 Dear Fathers, Brothers, and Seminarians, The Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life in its document Directives on Formation in Religious Institutes upholds that “the personal life of a religious must not become dichotomized between the generic end of religious life and the specific end of the institute;
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