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Singles of the Eucharist encourages vocations to the consecrated religious life, Priesthood or perpetual celibacy for singles. SoE members will do this with prayer and sacrifices.
In addition to prayer for vocations, Singles of the Eucharist would like to offer some financial support of seminarians when funds become available. As singles that love the Blessed Sacrament and whom desire to have as many of God's people to be able share in the gift of the Body and Blood, it should be part of our mission to help make the Priesthood possible for all who are called.
Singles of the Eucharist also encourages those singles who may be over the age of 35 and still unmarried, to consider that they may possibly have a vocation to the religious life and may want to contact their local diocesan office for direction in this area. We look for guidance from our Shepherds, the clergy in the Church, to help us discern and for ways to support those in the discernment process.
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UNDERSTANDING SECULAR INSTITUTES
Consecrated Persons and Vatican Officials Meet for Symposium
VATICAN CITY, FEB. 7, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Secular institutes are one of the ways that the Holy Spirit accompanies the Church, Benedict XVI says.
The Holy Father said this to some 400 superiors of secular institutes, gathered in Rome on Saturday and Sunday, to mark the 60th anniversary of "Provida Mater Ecclesia." With this apostolic constitution, signed Feb. 2, 1947, Pope Pius XII recognized secular institutes.
"That juridical act," Benedict XVI explained to the superiors in his address on Saturday, "did not represent a point of arrival but rather the starting point of a journey whose objective was to delineate a new form of consecration."
The meeting was organized by the World Conference of Secular Institutes, to which 160 feminine institutes, seven masculine institutes, and 15 priestly institutes belong, as well as one with both masculine and feminine branches.
Members of secular institutes commit themselves to live the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience in the world, without exterior signs. The 1983 Code of Canon Law dedicated Canons 710-730 to these institutions.
Called to holiness
Ewa Kusz, president of the group, explained that "our vocation means living in the world, like all lay people, but also in full consecration, like all consecrated persons, since all are called to holiness, and all are called in different places and in different ways. According to our way, we can be saints in the world."
"Our life is different from religious life," clarified Kusz, who belongs to the Immaculate Mother Institute. That Church entity, founded in Poland, is present in Germany, Ukraine, Slovakia, Brazil and Rome.
"We have no works; therefore, we cannot say what we have done," she said. "We are like salt and leaven. The fruits are in the different places in which we live."
To explain her vocation, she quoted the Epistle to Diognetus, a second century Christian text addressed by the author to a pagan in which he says, among other things: "To sum up all in one word -- what the soul is in the body, Christians are in the world."
Archbishop Gianfranco Agostino Gardin, secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, also addressed the group.
Saints in the world
Cardinal Georges Cottier, retired theologian of the Pontifical Household, analyzed the term "world" in his address.
In the face of a society that lives "as if God did not exist," the believer has the task to purify and sanctify the world, showing the work of God that acts in the lives of people, the cardinal explained.
Luigi Franco Pizzolato, dean of the faculty of classics and philosophy at the University of Milan, illustrated the Epistle to Diognetus, presenting it as a model of reflection on the presence of Christians in the world.
In this document, "the reasons for the distinction between being in the world and not being of the world find their synthesis in the faithful's belonging to the Church, which summarizes the mysteries of testimony and knowledge, of participation and identity," Pizzolato said.
The symposium was closed in St. Peter's Basilica, where representatives of the secular institutes placed before the altar the commitments that arose during the two days of study and analysis.
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