"The social, economic and religious challenges which Consecrated Life must face today are by no means few! The five pastoral spheres that you have highlighted are five ‘threads’, to be woven and intertwined in the intricate weft of everyday life, in interpersonal relations and in the apostolate": it was said this morning in the Vatican by Pope Benedict XVI, who received in audience the Mothers Superior of 794 religious families working in 85 countries in the five continents, convened in Rome for the Plenary meeting of the International Union of Mothers superior (Uisg). The ‘five threads’ that the Pope mentioned are "women, migrants, the land and its sacred character, the lay people, dialogue with the world’s religions". Then Benedict XVI added: "It is often about treading uncharted missionary and spiritual territories, while keeping one’s inner relation with Christ unfailingly strong. Only by this union with God is the ‘prophetic’ role of your mission generated and fed". (continued)
