Vatican City, 8 March 2014 (VIS) –
The International Symposium “The administration of the
ecclesiastical assets of the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the
Societies of Apostolic Life in the service of the humanum and the
mission of the Church” is held at the “Antonianum” Pontifical
Athenaeum on 8 and 9 March 2014. To mark the occasion the Holy Father
sent a message to the participants in the Congress, in which he
writes, “Our time is characterised by significant changes and
progress in various fields, with important consequences for the life
of humanity. However, although poverty has been reduced, the goals
attained have often contributed to the construction of an economy of
exclusion and injustice”.
“The Institutes of Consecrated Life
and the Societies of Apostolic Life can and must be active agents in
living and bearing witness that the principle of gratuity and the
logic of giving have a place in economic activity. … Careful
supervision is necessary to ensure that the assets of the Institutes
are managed shrewdly and transparently, that they are protected and
preserved, linking the charismatic-spiritual dimension to that of
economy and efficiency, which has its humus in the administrative
tradition of the Institutes, which does not tolerate waste and is
attentive to the good use of resources”.
“The Institutes of Consecrated Life
and the Societies of Apostolic Life have always been the prophetic
voice and living witness to the novelty of Christ … who became poor
so that we might be rich”, continues the Pope. It is not a
theoretical poverty that we need, but rather the poverty that is
learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, in
the poor, in the sick, in children”. Pope Francis concludes by
encouraging the Institutes and Societies to continue their work in
relation to “the poor and all material, moral and spiritual misery,
overcoming all selfishness in the logic of the Gospel that teaches us
to trust in God's Providence”.
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