RELIGIOUS LIFE
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A FRANCISCAN friar helps prepare a meal for the needy. Service to others is a hallmark of apostolic religious communities, as well as communities that are a hybrid and include an apostolic element.
The four main types of religious life by
Sister Katia Chavez, S.J.S. belongs to the Sister Servants of the Blessed Sacrament. She ministers in a parish in Bonita, California and serves on her community’s vocation team.
Sister Katia Chavez, S.J.S.
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Thanks to the endless creativity of the Holy Spirit, religious life consists of many communities, each with its own distinctions. Amid the variety are essentially four main types of institutes.
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ONSECRATED LIFE is about revealing God’s loving care and mercy in all sorts of places and circumstances. The variety of religious communities expresses different dimensions of God’s love for people. They reflect the various ways that the gifts of the Holy Spirit have poured forth throughout centuries, be it in quiet contemplation or by proclaiming the gospel to people at the margins of society. As the church document Lumen Gentium (Light of the Nations)
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