Directives on Formation in Religious Institutes / Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated life and Societies of Apostolic LIfe.

includes index and biblioraphy

the Purpose of Religious Formation ...... Constant Concern ............. poStconciliar Activities of the Congregation. . . . the Reason for this Document and to Whom It Is Directed............... Religious Consecration and Formation religious and Consecrated Life According to the Doctrine of the Church ........ Divine Vocation for a Mission of Salvation . . . Personal Response . religious Profession: An Act of the Church Which Consecrates and Incorporates ..... Life According to the Evangelical Counsels . . religious Institutes: A Diversity of Gifts to Be Cultivated and Maintained ....... Life Unified in the Holy Spirit........ Aspects Common to All Stages of Religious Formation Agents and Environment of Formation .... The Human and Christian Dimension of Formation ............... Asceticism................ Sexuality and Formation .......... The Stages of Religious Formation The Stage Before Entrance into the Novitiate. . . B. The Novitiate and First Profession ....... Formation of the Temporarily Professed ..... The Ongoing Formation of the Perpetually Professed ............ Formation in Institutes Ordered Toward Contemplation: Especially Nuns (PC, n.7) The Place of These Institutes in the Church. .... The Importance of Formation in These Institutes . . Some Points to Be Stressed ........... Questions Concerning Religious Formation Young Candidates to Religious Life and Vocation Promotion ................. Religious Formation and Culture ........ Religious Life and Ecclesial Movements. .... Episcopal Ministry and the Religious Life .... Interinstitutional Collaboration. ........ Religious Candidates to Priestly and Diaconal Ministry Formation .................. The Specific Religious Character of Religious Priests and Deacons ................ The Place of the Religious Priest Within the Diocesan Presbyterate ............