Mar 9, 2011 / 00:10 am
Vowed religious who assisted in the apostolic visitation of U.S. women religious congregations met for a concluding workshop March 4-6. They shared their personal impressions and observations of the common hopes, challenges and concerns of the numerous female religious communities.
Mother Mary Clare Millea, ASCJ, who headed the visitation, said that the examination of religious congregations gave American Catholics the opportunity to voice “their appreciation and esteem for our early sisters and for us who revere them as our models of courage and faith.”
The workshop was “a great grace and joy” and provided her with material to enhance her final reports, she said. The event also deepened bonds of “mutual understanding” among participants and the Congregation for Consecrated Life.
Mother Millea predicted these bonds will do much to “promote the vitality of religious life in the context of respectful dialogue and ecclesial communion.”