For You I Study
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Date
2004
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Tangaza University College
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We will then be busy teaching and forming
young minds, taking care of the sick,
uplifting the poor, and engaged in handing
on faith to future generations.
The Apostolic Exhortation Vita
Consecrata addressed to all religious
called for renewed and loving commitment to the intellectual life as an integral
part of the experience of life in the Spirit
and the condition for apostolic efficacy.
The following text has been frequently
quoted, but it will do no harm to hear it
again: "In addition to the service of others, within the consecrated life itself
there is need for a renewed and loving
commitment to the intellectual life, for
dedication to study as a means of integral
formation and as a path of asceticism
which is extraordinarily timely, in the
face of present-day cultural diversity. A
lessened commitment to study can
have grave consequences for the apostolate, by giving rise to a sense of marginalization and inferiority, or
encouraging superficiality and rash initiatives"
(VC 98)
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Study, Intellectual Formation