Education Brings Clarity

Dear Friend in Christ,

Katarina (Katka), MJ, is truly grateful for the “Theology of Consecrated Life” courses she is taking in Rome. A native of Slovakia, it didn’t take much time for Katka to learn Italian and dive into the two-year program run by the Claretians at the Lateran University.

Having received highest grades half-way through the program, Katka tells us, “This education is very, very good. It has been so helpful for me and Geraldine here in our community in Rome. In my group there are 130 students, mostly sisters and priests from different religious orders. Some of them are superiors, some are formation directors and others are regular community members. We have studied Consecrated Life (CL) in the New Testament, Formation and CL, Spirituality of CL, Evangelical Counsels of CL and New Forms of CL, among other things.”

To graduate next year Katka needs to prepare a 60-page paper on a topic relevant to the course. She says she plans to write about the New Forms of Consecrated Life, especially about the characteristics of ecclesial families of consecrated life, such as Miles Jesu, in which there are consecrated men and women, laity and priests, who fully profess the evangelical counsels and live them in the mix of modern society.

“As a result of these studies, I appreciate and understand God’s call to me to the consecrated life all the more,” says Katka with a broad smile across her face.

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