Consecrated Life

So but I just kind of give you a little bit of backstory.

And I just want to I actually want to start with a quote from the document, the church's document, the apostolic exhortation, Vita Consecrata.

And I want to just frame all this in number three and Vita Consecrata.

And the title of that paragraph says the consecrated life, a gift to the church.

And it says, its universal presence and the evangelical nature of its witness are clear evidence that the consecrated life is not something isolated and marginal, but a reality which affects the whole church.

I pray that that will be so.

30 years ago this past month, Pope St John Paul II promulgated his great apostolic exhortation on the consecrated life, Vita Consecrata.

The communion of the Church, he pointed out, is enriched by three ranks of the ordained, many religious charisms, and various states of life.

To maintain that rich diversity, Each must understand and be faithful to their particular vocation,