The freedom of learning

So, it will be important that every consecrated person be trained to the freedom of learning, all her lifetime long, at any age and at any season, in any environment and any human context, from any person and from any culture, in order to be able to get learning from the slightest truth and beauty existing around him.

However, she should above all, learn how to be educated through daily life, her community, her sisters and brothers, through ordinary and extraordinary things of every day, prayer and apostolic mission, in bliss and in suffering, until the day of her death. This is when opening to others and, particularly, the link with the time become decisive. Persons under education, possess time again, they do not endure it, but welcome it as a gift and become wisely integrated in the diverse rhythms (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly) of life itself, seeking harmony between these and rhythm specified by God, unchanging and eternal, that punctuates days, centuries and time. The consecrated person learns, in a particular way, to be molded by liturgical year in the school of which she lives, little by little, life mysteries of the Son of God with the same feelings as His, with the aim of starting again from the Christ and His Easter of Death and Resurrection in every day of life”. (Starting afresh in Christ; No. 15).

The Congregation adopts this text as its own. It regards it as a key text that allows it to think and reconsider its suggestions for continuous education of its members. This education is, on one hand, individual, and personalized on the other, through seminaries reserved for reflection and more thorough examination, suggested according to age group or motivation.