{"id":327544,"date":"2015-09-09T13:50:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T11:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/young-religious-in-rome-the-joy-of-consecrated-life-2\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:01:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:01:19","slug":"young-religious-in-rome-the-joy-of-consecrated-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/young-religious-in-rome-the-joy-of-consecrated-life-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Young religious in Rome. The joy of consecrated life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-128222 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/giovani-religiose.jpg\" alt=\"giovani religiose\" width=\"400\" height=\"234\" \/>  <strong>\u00a0<\/strong>  <em>\u00a0<\/em>  The objectives set by the <strong>4,000 consecrated youth who will meet in Rome from 15-19 September<\/strong> is to achieve a formative experience through the biblical, theological-charismatic and ecclesiological in-depth study on consecrated life, and to have a concrete possibility to share their reality, wishes and expectations, celebrating and testifying to the beauty of their vocation. They will come from all over the world (countries like Iran, the Philippines, Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe) to take part in the <strong>World Day of Young Religious.<\/strong> Organized by the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, the event will be held in the context of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/news\/category\/anno-della-vita-consacrata\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Year of Consecrated Life.<\/a>  The calendar is varied and intense. In the morning the youth will meet in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican to listen and reflect on the themes about vocations, fraternal life and the missions. In the afternoon they will meet in various parts of Rome to hold dialogue and sharing sessions, and in the evening they will have the chance to participate in the itineraries offered: the <strong>path of the announcement<\/strong> (missionary night in the centre of Rome), the <strong>path of encounter<\/strong> (meetings with social-ecclesiastical organisations: Caritas, St. Egidio community, Talitha Kum), the<strong> path of beauty <\/strong>(guided tours of the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel).  Some open-air events with the public will be: the prayer vigil in St. Peter\u2019s Square (15 September at 20.30) presided by the Archbishop Secretary of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life, His Excellency, Bishop Jos\u00e9 Rodr\u00edguez Carballo; the mass in St. Peter\u2019s Basilica (19 September at 11.30) presided by the Prefect of the Congregation, His Excellency, Cardinal Jo\u00e3o Braz de Aviz; soiree of music and testimonials in St. Peter\u2019s Square (18 September at 20.30).  There will also be a meeting with Pope Francis during the general audience on Wednesday, 16 September. On this occasion, all those present will receive as a gift, the book entitled <em><a href=\"http:\/\/editrice.cittanuova.it\/s\/527116\/Amare_e039_dare_tutto_aavv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Love means giving all &#8211; Testimonials<\/a><\/em>, edited in seven languages. Published by the Vie Consacr\u00e9e Association and in Italian by <em>Citt\u00e0 Nuova<\/em>, the book, upon its release, was presented to the Holy Father who expressed his deep appreciation for the new, fresh and attractive vision of consecrated life, and encouraged its widespread diffusion.  Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cittanuova.it\/FILE\/PDF\/web449018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to see the programme of the event  <em>\u00a0Source: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cittanuova.it\/index.php?idsito=11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>New City publishers <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the context of the Year of Consecrated Life, 4,000 young religious will be expected in Rome from 15 &#8211; 19 September to testify to the beauty of their vocation. vocazione.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senza-categoria-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}