Secular Institutes
"Members of secular institutes are "in the
world and not of the world, but for the world." They live in
whatever providential circumstances God gives them, but they
wholly consecrate their lives to God through the evangelical
counsels of poverty, obedience, and chastity. They are the
newest vocation in the Catholic Church, and many say they are
the vocation of the new millennium.
Each secular institute bears the unique
charism of its founders and traditions, and each celebrates
its "communion" by annual retreats, meetings, common daily
prayer, and friendships that evolve quite naturally from
living a similar life in God despite differences in profession
or work in the world. A web of connectedness grows over time,
linking the members to one another inextricably. For all
consecrated seculars, the vocation undergirds all they
undertake because it becomes the essence of what they are in
God’s eye." - USCCB Conference of Secular Institutes
http://www.secularinstitutes.org/
http://www.vocations.com/secinst/
http://www.catholiclinks.org/secularinstitutesenglish.htm
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