We are blessed in our Church, including in our Archdiocese, with multiple forms and expressions of consecrated life. This includes the many religious sisters who have and currently live, witness, and serve in our Archdiocese. More than what religious sisters do, their gift is who they are as consecrated women. For Catholic Sisters Week 2024, we celebrated our religious sisters with this seven-part series of short videos: Everything You Wanted to Know About Catholic Sisters – But Were Afraid to Ask! We invite you to watch for these videos below, and hear from religious sisters in their own words.
Down the centuries, a variety of other expressions of religious life, in which countless persons, renouncing the world, have consecrated themselves to God through the public profession of the evangelical counsels in accordance with a specific charism and in a stable form of common life, for the sake of carrying out different forms of apostolic service to the People of God… This is a splendid and varied testimony, reflecting the multiplicity of gifts bestowed by God on founders and foundresses who, in openness to the working of the Holy Spirit, successfully interpreted the signs of the times and responded wisely to new needs. Following in their footsteps, many other people have sought by word and deed to embody the Gospel in their own lives, bringing anew to their own times the living presence of Jesus, the Consecrated One par excellence, the One sent by the Father. In every age consecrated men and women must continue to be images of Christ the Lord, fostering through prayer a profound communion of mind with him (cf. Phil 2:5-11), so that their whole lives may be penetrated by an apostolic spirit and their apostolic work with contemplation. – Vita Consecrata, 9
