USCSI National Meeting – September 28-30, 2018

ACSI: newsletter 10/2018

Dear Friends, While living in the world the members of Secular Institutes try to make Christ present in the world and are committed to sanctifying it from within. They face a number of challenges when they encounter different people, situations and circumstances. Pope Francis in His homily invited the faithful to ask “the Lord for

Presidency and the Executive of the CMIS met in Rome in March 8 to 12

The Presidency and the Executive of the CMIS met in Rome in March 8 to 12 in Villa Aurelia, with an important program: a discussion and an assessment about Primo Feliciter, 70 years after its promulgation; a provisional assess about the distribution of “Consecration and secularity”, the Letter of the Prefect to all bishops in

3rd Secular Institutes Philippines National Assembly

Held in historic Cebu’s Talisay City Don Bosco Retreat House from 29 November to 3 December 2017, the 3rd Secular Institutes-Philippines (SIP) National Assembly brought in 33 participants from 9 institutes. These are the Associate of Notre Dame (AND), Secular Institutes of the Daughters St. Anne (SIDSA), Fils de Notre Dame de Vie (FNDV), Madonna

Annual meeting of the US Conference of Secular Institutes

Our annual meeting of USCSI was a wonderful weekend of support and sharing among our secular institute members. I think we were all in awe of the richness of the charisms of our respective founders and foundresses and amazed at the diversity of the inspirations from the Holy Spirit….

Congress on Vocational Ministry. Rome, december 1st to 3rd, 2017

Conference for Major Superiors and Vocation Animation Personnel, to be held in Rome from November 30th to December 3rd 2017, at the PontificaI Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum (Via degli Aldobrandeschi, 190).

Consecration and Secularity. Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church regarding Secular Institutes

  We were waiting for it for a long time: here is the official text about the main features defining the identity of our vocation. It is a Letter written by the Prefect of the Congregation for the Institutes of consecrated life, for to the bishops of the whole Church. It is the result of

Last news from the US Conference of Secular Institutes

The Mountaineer Volume 10, Issue 2 From the Desk of the President Dear Friends, Our summer Mountaineer is a little bit later than usual this year because we wanted to share with you the experiences we had participating in the Convocation for Catholic Leaders sponsored by the United States Bishops’ Conference. (…)

XII Latin American Congress of Secular Institutes

Buenos Aires, 12 de Junio 2017 Estimados Miembros del Consejo Ejecutivo de la CISAL Estimados Presidentes de las Confederaciones, Federaciones y Juntas de Institutos Seculares de América Latina y el Caribe Estimados Responsables Generales / Regionales de los Institutos   Queridos hermanos/as en Cristo: Ya caminando hacia el “XII Congreso Latinoamericano de Institutos Seculares” a

Last news from the German Institutes

„Mann Gottes – den geistlichen und materiellen Bedürfnissen des Menschen zugewandt.“ So bezeichnete Papst Franziskus am 20.11.2016 den neuen Seligen, Pater Maria Eugen vom Kinde Jesus. Dieser wurde am Vortag in Anwesenheit von Kardinal Amato in Avignon seliggesprochen. Es war ein bewegender Moment, den Menschen aus zahlreichen Nationenin Freude und Dankbarkeit miterlebten.