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Setting the Context for the Conversation Seven Key Insights

Setting the Context for the Conversation Seven Key Insights. Sr. Katherine Feely, SND. Lack of focused movement towards the future is a dominant reality of religious life. Key Insight #1.

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Setting the Context for the Conversation Seven Key Insights

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  1. Setting the Context for the ConversationSeven Key Insights Sr. Katherine Feely, SND

  2. Lack of focused movement towards the future is a dominant reality of religious life Key Insight #1

  3. Core constitutive elements of religious life are communion, mission, communal discernment and solidarity with the poor and marginalized and need reexamination Key Insight #2

  4. New tools and new ways of being are required for new times Key Insight #3

  5. Letting go is a prophetic call in order to be free to change Key Insight #4

  6. Key Insight #5 Purification of memory is needed to embrace new dreams

  7. Key Insight #6 Energy and hope are alive and well – even in the face of current realities and challenges

  8. Persistent calls remain:…the call to contemplation and communal discernment Key Insight #7

  9. This we know…continuity & change • The strength of religious life at the moment is in its individual members • Its weakness is at the communal or corporate level; there is a lack of cohesion, of shared vision and action regarding a transformed future. • We are wrestling and redefining “community” in the light of changes since Vatican II

  10. This we hope for: • There is a deep desire and readiness for movement. • Members of religious congregations around the country overwhelmingly indicated that they are looking for ways to initiate and sustain change and movement towards a deeper renewal and living of the life. • So here we are…

  11. Our collective goal here: • To provide you with insights and skills and resources to envision, desire and commit to a sustained process of personal and communal transformation. • To support you in your role and as a member in taking responsibility for the desires and the visions you have for living this life deeply and passionately.

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