Year of Consecrated Life

Here is information on the Year of Consecrated Life being Celebrated in 2015, starting in advent 2014 and ending with the Feast of the Presentation in 2016. There is also a listing of some of the events in Rome that are being organized for the year:

OPENING
- Prayer Vigil, November 29, 2014
- First Sunday of Advent, November 30, 2014
CLOSING
- Prayer Vigil, February 1, 2016
- World Day of Consecrated Life, February 2, 2016

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WORLDWIDE
TIME FOR REFLECTION AND SHARING
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ECUMENICAL MEETING OF CONSECRATED MEN AND WOMEN
ROME, 22-24 January 2015
24 January, Prayer Vigil
WORKSHOP FOR FORMATORS
ROME, April 8- 11, 2015
April 11 Prayer Vigil
WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG CONSECRATED PERSONS
Rome, September 23 - 26, 2015
September 25 Prayer Vigil

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WEEK OF WORLD UNITY FOR CONSECRATED LIFE
IN THE CHURCH
FOLLOWING THE GOSPEL INTO THE FUTURE
Rome, January 24 - February 2, 2016
PARTICIPANTS : Monastic life –Apostolic Institutes, Societies of Apostolic Life, Secular Institutes - Ordo Virginum - New Institutions
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SPECIAL EVENTS
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
 Rome , 27 - January 31, 2016

FOLLOWING THE GOSPEL:
A PERMANENT FORM OF LIFE IN THE CHURCH,
MOVING TOWARD THE FUTURE,
PROCESSES  ALREADY IN PLACE.

1. FOR INSTITUTES OF CONSECRATED LIFE
AND SOCIETIES OF  APOSTOLIC LIFE WITHIN THE CHURCH
Rome, 27 - January 31, 2016
2 . FOR MONASTIC LIFE
Rome, 28 - January 31, 2016
3 . FOR SECULAR INSTITUTES
Rome, 29 - January 31, 2016
4 . FOR THE ORDO VIRGINUM
Rome, 29 - January 31, 2016

 EVENTS TO BE CELEBRATED IN COMMON
• JANUARY 30, 2016
AT 8:00 PM
PRAYER VIGIL IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
" PROPHECY, HOLINESS AND MARTYRDOM IN THE HUMAN CITY "
• FEBRUARY 1, 2016
AUDIENCE WITH  THE HOLY FATHER
• FEBRUARY 2 , 2016
CLOSING EUCHARIST OF THE YEAR OF CONSECRATED LIFE


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SEVEN PATHWAYS
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1. Research and sharing laboratories organized by the  Pontifical Universities  staffed  by religious orders on issues and quaestiones regarding Consecrated Life .
2 . Memoria Sanctorum of consecrated life. Stationes in places of particular significance in the apostolic world.
3 . Memoria Martyrum of consecrated men and women of the XX and XXI centuries. Stationes in  places of particular witness in the world .
4 . Worldwide Prayer Chain among the monasteries  Stationes and  monasteries of particular significance in the monastic world.
5 . Online Monastic session of the STUDIUM for the nuns .
6 . Paths of evangelical significance determined by  and implemented in interaction between Apostolic Institutes, Societies of Apostolic Life, Monastic Life,  Secular Institutes, Ordo virginum, new institutions.
7 . Via pulchritudinis . " One thing I ask of the Lord , that will I seek: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life , to behold the beauty of the Lord and behold his temple " (Psalm 27 : 4). The artistic languages in consecrated life for contemplation and the  proclamation of the truth and beauty of faith.

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