Chris Thile: Typical Millennial?

Chautauqua is excited to welcome @christhile to the Amphitheater this Saturday, June 26, to share some music from his first solo record album ‘Laysongs.' https://t.co/5t6i6I3Vua

— Chautauqua Institution (@chq) June 23, 2021

A Postchristian Age

A truly beautiful and moving piece on our emotional and physical connection to nature, its healing power, and why we need to defend it. https://t.co/5XpHcpjTBH

— Stella Brozek (@StellaBrozek) December 8, 2020

Satanism on the Rise

Can those who have a rooted life of prayer be victims of third parties (occultism)

"Yes, unfortunately....It is obvious that it is more difficult that a person who tries to live an honest life in the grace of God become prey to the devil...”@Solena_Tad https://t.co/rvbSnZvUQn

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) December 5, 2020

Regenerative Education?

A Regenerative Education for our times https://t.co/ZhzjbFbWEJ pic.twitter.com/1ZLsIi3bsw

— Resilience.org (@buildresilience) October 22, 2020

Resilience and GAIA

The State of the U.S.

The Decline of Religion Continues – Nones Gain 3 Percent in One Year https://t.co/LCWm4yFJyu

— ReligioninPublic (@Religion_Public) October 7, 2020

Hm. Anabaptists...

We've seen all this before: In 1534, a violent gang of radical Anabaptists seized control of Münster and announced they were building Heaven on earth. My look at some parallels to the current American scene, today in @EpochTimes:https://t.co/nTnbasXIDh

— Joseph Bottum (@JosephBottum) September 25, 2020

Did you catch @albertmohler's interview with Joseph Bottum on this topic?https://t.co/SruGyz6ocK

— ⋊ sternfels ⋉ (@cfbearden) September 25, 2020

Just earlier this week we got a civic nationalists who believes in American exceptionalism comparing the Woke to Apostolic Christians who purged classical civilization.

Secular Institutes Study Sanctity in the World

Secular Institutes Study Sanctity in the World
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.

Sister Sharon Holland, canonist and member of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, explained how "to make Christ the heart of the world," and spoke of the directives the Code of Canon Law gives the secular institutes.

Leah Lillera Priscilla from the Philippines, Emilio Sánchez from Spain, Miroslaw Bogacki from Poland, Perpetue Kakese from Congo, Denise Dube from Canada and María Cecilia Comuzzi from Argentina gave their testimonies of consecrated life in the world.

The prefect of the Vatican congregation, Cardinal Franc Rodé, gave the last intervention, presenting the points of view and goals that this meeting offered to the secular institutes.

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.