Living the Present Passionately

"This hope doesn't spare us--and the consecrated are well aware of this--from 'living the present passionately', and this is the third objective for the Year. ...It will be an important moment for 'evangelizing' our vocation and for bearing witness to the beauty of the 'sequel Christi' in the many ways in which our lives are expressed.  The consecrated take up the witness that has been left them by their respective founders and foundresses. ...They want to 'awaken the world' with their prophetic witness, particularly with their presence at the existential margins of poverty and thought, as Pope Francis asked their superior generals."

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