On 19 February, the graduation ceremony was held for the e-Studium Course on the Magisterium, law and praxis of consecrated life, marking the end of the 2023–2025 biennium. The graduates, coming from India, Brazil, Indonesia, Uganda, Belgium, East Timor, Italy, Mexico, Congo, France, Tanzania, Nigeria, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Argentina, Madagascar, Romania and the United Kingdom, shared a journey of academic and ecclesial formation promoted by the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, a concrete sign of catholicity and communion in diversity.
During the meeting, the course directors, Sr. Carmen Ros Nortes, NSC, and Fr. Aitor Jiménez, CMF, gave addresses. Sr. Carmen spoke about the transition from study to service, stressing that study is not an end point but a journey that must become wisdom oriented towards service, capable of informing discernment, supporting governance and accompanying people through the challenges of the present day. Fr. Aitor, meanwhile, offered a reflection entitled Consecrated life today: between fidelity and transformation.
After hearing from several students, who shared a presentation on the theme “The fruits of the journey: formation that becomes life”, Card. Ángel F. Artime, SDB, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery, took the floor. He expressed his gratitude for the commitment required by such a demanding course and offered his best wishes to the graduates, noting that “the more formation there is, the fewer problems there are in our consecrated life”. He then invited everyone to take what they had received with them, highlighting that no one can predict where the Lord will lead them, and proposing a concrete “rule of life”: to flourish wherever the Lord plants us, so that formation may become fruitful in service to the Church and to consecrated life.
