World Consecrated Life Day: Occasion to thank Consecrated

The Dicasterio for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Apostolic Life Societies of the Vatican has indicated the next World Day of Consecrated Life as an occasion in which the Church “meets with joy and gratitude around the consecrated ones.”

The celebrations for this day, which next Sunday, celebrates its XXIX edition, will begin with the sentence of eve on Saturday, February 1, chaired by Pope Francis in the Basilica of San Pedro at 5:00 p.m. Rome).

As the Vatican Dicastery said in a statement, this day also intends to thank the consecrated for having pronounced their “yes”, giving “his life to God for the Church and for the world.”

This year’s day is part of the road that the consecrated and consecrated are touring towards the jubilee, which will be held throughout the world in October.

In particular, from the Vatican they encourage the private churches to join in prayer to ask the Lord “the gift of holy vocations to consecrated life.”

They also urged to “host the grace of being carriers of the announcement of hope and peace builders, testifying with life that no one is excluded from God’s mercy.”

Every February 2, Festival of the presentation of the Lord, the Catholic Church celebrates the World Day of Consecrated Life, which was instituted in 1997 by Pope San Juan Paul II.

The consecrated life is made up of all the baptized who enshrine God through the rite of the profession or the consecration of virgins. These faithful undertake to live poverty, chastity and obedience through emission of votes or promises.

This morning, Pope Francis met in the Vatican with Sor Simona Brambilla, New Prefect of Dicastery, and with Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, pro-prefect of it. It is the first time in the history of the Catholic Church that a woman is in command of a Vatican dicas supplies.