In OUr Own Words Religious Life in a Changing World

includes index and biblioraphy

Communities in Communion : Shifting into New Life...............1 Something Old, Something New: Hannah`s Vow (1 Sam 1-2) Touches the Lives of Women Religious Today ..............18 Theological Anthropology and the Vows of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience ..............31 The Vows and Jesus` Radical Mission: The power of Celibacy, Poverty, and Obedience for the Reign of God...........47 Local and Global: Charism of Religious life Today .........67 In the Garden of God`s Love: Cultivating a Vocation ..............82 Searching for Identity through the Paschal Mystery .............96 Creating a Culture of Encounter : Finding life in Intergenerational and Intercultural Community ..............110 The Bridges I cross and Las Hermanas who Built Them .....128 The Compassion the World Needs Now .......147 Called to Leadership: Challenges and opportunities for younger members in Leadership ........159 Religious life in a Time of Fog ..........182 Traveler, your footprints are the only Road, Nothing Else: Reflections on the Future of Women`s Religious life .....204 looking to the Future .............222