Consecrated life

[Robin]

Secular Institutes are institutes of consecrated life. It is a vocation but not of religious life. IS this page an appropriate place to talk about this vocation?

[Guest]

Welcome Robin.  

I can't answer your question, but I know that other members will be able to do so-  and will do so given time.  I am in Australia (4.15pm) and probably the bulk of members are not yet awake.

[NadaTeTurbe]

Yes of course ! We even have members of secular institute here  

[Guest]

Go for it, Robin.  Secular Institute threads and posts ok on Vocation Station

Vatican - Consecrated LIfe and the Categories (of which religious life is only one) 

[Robin]

I am from India and a member of a secular institute. It is a choice which I made many, many years ago and a choice I do not regret

[Gabriela]

Welcome, Robin!  

Yep, as the others say, totally okay to talk secular institutes here. Lots of members of SIs post here already. You're in good company! 

[beatitude]

Welcome Robin. I'm in formation with a secular institute founded in the spirituality of Bl. Charles de Foucauld, the Jesus Caritas Fraternity. It's only five years since I began writing to them and two years since I knew it was for me, so it's all quite new to me still.  I'm always excited when other secular institute members pop up like this, as we are quite a hidden group. (I like to think of us as God's guerrillas. Obviously not the violent kind.) Do you want to say a bit about your own institute and its spirituality?

[Robin]

I have been in Christ the King secular institute for quite a while now. You can read more about us on the website http://www.istitutosecolarecristore.org/  and in brochure form on http://www.istitutosecolarecristore.org/inglese/documenti/brochure.pdf

We are fully lay persons with secular jobs - like doctors, mechanics, school teachers.......  And we "hide" in plain sight.!! Our spirituality is that of a lay person, 

Great coming in contact with you.