Where is the Spirit leading the Consecrate Life in this new Millenium?

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Where is the Spiritleading the Consecrate
Lifein this new Millenium?
ICLA, Religious Life Week José Cristo Rey García
Paredes, cmf
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"Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the
Spirit is saying to the churches (Apc 38-13).
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Index

• Foundation
• The Holy Spirit and Jesus
• Where is the Spirit leading us?
• To become living Memoria Jesu
• To Communion of the Spirit
• To creativity and innovation

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Introduction

• Religious life like a saling-boat pushed by the
  wind of the Spirit
• The question
• Where is the Spirit leading the Consecrated Life?
• What opportunities is the Spirit offering us for
  our growth, innovation and refoundation?

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FOUNDATIONJesus our contemporary and the Holy
Spirit
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Jesus, our contemporary

• Jesus Christ, our Risen Lord, the Mediator of
  the New Covenant and of the Kingdom, is our
  contemporary. He does not belong to the past
  (Instrumentum Laboris, n.1).

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Jesus, our contemporary

• I have said these things to you while I am still
  with you.
• But the Advocate (para/klhtoj), the Holy Spirit,
  whom the Father will send in my name, will teach
  you everything, and remind you of all that I have
  said to you.
• Do not let your hearts be troubled 'I am going
  away, and I am coming to you. (John 1425-29).

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Dilemma what kind of Spirit or spirits are
moving us?

• The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear
  the sound of it, but you do not know where it
  comes from or where it goes. So it is with
  everyone who is born of the Spirit (John 38)
• We should be cautious when we try to answer to
  the question where is the Spirit leading the
  Consecrated Life?
• Very easily we could attribute to the Holy Spirit
  that what belongs to bad spirits.
• The rules of discernment have to be followed now
  more than in the past.

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Criterion of discernment

• It comes from the Spirit of God everything that
  impels us to become
• Living memory of Jesus (John 1426)
• Community of different persons and charisms (2
  Cor 13,13)
• Women and men moved by a creative and
  transforming imagination (Creator Spirit) (Gen
  12).

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The Holy Spirit is leading the Consecrate
Lifeto be
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Memory
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3.
Communion
Creativity
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"Memoria Jesu"
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"Memoria Jesu" (John 1426)
But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the
Father will send in my name, will teach you
everything, and remind you of all that I have
said to you.
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The primacy of the Word of God

• Rediscovery of the person of Jesus from a much
  more existential and challenging perspective -
  the Word of God
• The ethical proposal is more than never
  Gospel-centered
• The Holy Spirit is the author of the deep and
  revolutionary transformation of our moral and
  ethical parameters.

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Towards a deeper configuration with Jesus

• Keys for an innovative way of following Jesus,
  our contemporary
• Our founders/foundresses and the magnetism of
  Jesus
• The Eucharist
• Prayer
• Power, money and sex
• Memory of Christ Body of Jesus

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Communion
2.
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Communion in the Spirit (2 Cor 1313)
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of
God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with
all of you.
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• Spirit
• atman advaita as the unifying principle of the
  Godhead and therefore of the universe
• The Spirit of the new Covenant, of Communion
• Abhishiktananda The Spirit is the advaita of
  God, the mystery of the non-duality of the Father
  and the Son
• The Spirit
• meeting point,
• key of access,
• mediation of the Covenant

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In the framework of the local Churches and
societies

• More integration
• Our past
• Experiences of communion, dialogue and insertion
• In the local and particular Churches
• Citizens

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Catholic and global gift and temptation

• A wrong understanding
• neoliberal globalization
• uni-versalism
• The evangelical model of catholicity
• as solidarity, real communion, dialogue,
  integration, inclusiveness
• Synodal model

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Political concern

• In confrontation with the political powers
• Prophecy
• When religious renounces to political innovation

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There where the covenant revives and is alive

• The covenant
• Alliances

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Creativity and Innovation
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Creativity and Innovation
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Creative imagination

• Artists
• Thinkers
• Poets
• Creativity in mission
• The care for creative imagination

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Refoundation of our institutions

• Institutions of the first order
• Institutions of the second order
• In a process of reformation of our institutions
• Where the Spirit is leading us?

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Regenerative therapy

• Monastic life as an integral therapy for our soul
  and body
• Evagrius
• Prayer as therapy

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Conclusion
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Let anyone who has an ear listen, what the
SPIRIT is saying to the Consecrated Life