World Day for Consecrated Life celebrated during the Lord's Presentation in the Temple

The World Day for Consecrated Life which we celebrate on February 2 during the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord is a suitable occasion for consecrated persons to renew their commitment and rekindle the fervor which inspires their offering of themselves to the Lord. The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord commemorates when Jesus and Mary brought the infant Jesus to the Temple forty days after his birth to perform the ritual of purification.

 

Consecrated Life makes visible the manifestation of God’s greatness in all his works. It is a transfigured life in oneness with Jesus. It proclaims the wonders of grace accomplished by the Lord in those whom he loves. Their living of the spirit of the Evangelical Counsels brings them to confess in oneness a loving communion of the Trinitarian life of Jesus. They come to the holiness to which God has called them, to be holy as the Lord God is holy. The consecrated person comes to and becomes a living witness of the communion of the love of the Son for the Father in the Holy Spirit.

A fruitful double celebration to everyone!