Embracing the Future with Hope

"With a positive look at this time of grace between the Council and today, we want the second objective to be 'embracing the future with hope'.  We are well aware that the present moment is 'difficult and delicate' ...and that the crisis facing society and the Church herself fully touches upon the consecrated life.  But we want to take this crisis not as an antechamber of death but as ... an opportunity to grow in depth, and thus in hope, motivated by the certainty that the consecrated life will never disappear from the Church because 'it was desired by Jesus himself as an irremovable part of his Church'."

                                (Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz,
prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life)