Year for Consecrated Life On the last Friday in January of 2014, Pope Francis stated that the next liturgical year will be a year dedicated to those who live in religious communities: professed brothers and sisters. It will be a Year for Consecrated Life. The church is celebrating these next three years the fiftieth anniversary of Vatican Council II. Each of the three years, major documents were released by the Council Fathers. The year 2015 will mark the anniversary of the release of the document entitled Lumen Gentium, which literally means Light of the Word. In that document is an entire section on the life of consecrated men and women. Each of us, most likely, has had acquaintances that were religious sisters or brothers. They might have been a grade school teacher or someone who has shared the faith with us in a special way. This coming year, take time to ask a young person if he or she has thought about a vocation as a professed sister or a professed brother. Often that is how a vocation in church ministry begins, by someone inviting and asking. We take this coming year to personally thank our religious men and women for their years of faithful service to the church. - Fr. Mike
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:07:16 +0000
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