{"id":3629,"date":"2021-07-19T10:10:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T15:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ive.org\/?page_id=3629"},"modified":"2021-10-20T10:05:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T15:05:32","slug":"contemplative-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ive.org\/iveorg\/vocation\/contemplative-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemplative Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Contemplative Life<\/h1>\n<h2>\u00abThey will leave everything for Him\u00bb<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our Institute, in addition to having houses of apostolic life, also has houses of contemplative life, where religious consecrate their existence totally to God and only to Him, in prayer, silence and penance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those who, moved by God, embrace this way of life within our religious family<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a>, will consecrate their lives to contemplate and to live the mystery of the Incarnate Word<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/a>, especially in the maximum expression of their self-emptying, which is the cross. Invited to retire in the desert: <em>Come apart into a desert place<\/em> (Mk 6,31), they will leave everything for Him, take up their cross and follow Him, because He himself has said: <em>If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.<\/em> (Mt 16:24)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The monasteries are the vanguard of our Institute and the guardians of its spirit, showing to all the primacy of love for God and the value of the virtues of mortification: silence, penance, obedience, sacrifice and oblative love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prayer -liturgical and personal-, formation, silence, cell and community life are the essential elements of the life of a monastery.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPrevious<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNext<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ive.org\/vocation\/apostolic-life\/\"><\/p>\n<h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe missionary priest \t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00abAs the Father sent me, so I send you\u00bb<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRead More<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ive.org\/vocation\/\"><\/p>\n<h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat is the vocation?\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tIs Jesus calling me?<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRead More<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ive.org\/vocation\/minor-seminary\/\"><\/p>\n<h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMinor Seminary\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tAt the service of God from youth<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRead More<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Contact us<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>If you want to know more about the contemplative life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"255\" height=\"364\" src=\"https:\/\/ive.org\/iveorg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/escudo-blanco.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ive.org\/iveorg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/escudo-blanco.png 255w, https:\/\/ive.org\/iveorg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/escudo-blanco-210x300.png 210w, https:\/\/ive.org\/iveorg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/escudo-blanco-102x146.png 102w, https:\/\/ive.org\/iveorg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/escudo-blanco-35x50.png 35w, https:\/\/ive.org\/iveorg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/escudo-blanco-53x75.png 53w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ive.org\/vocation\/contemplative-life\/?elementor-preview=3629&amp;ver=1626707419#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0<em>Directory of contemplative life<\/em>, 5.7.8.48.50.67.134.137.171.174.179.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ive.org\/vocation\/contemplative-life\/?elementor-preview=3629&amp;ver=1626707419#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a>\u00a0\u201cThis is because life implies a permanent dedication to God and to believing and loving His mystery and His plan of salvation for all men&#8230;\u201d.\u00a0<em>Directory of Spirituality<\/em>, 220.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contemplative Life \u00abThey will leave everything for Him\u00bb Our Institute, in addition to having houses of apostolic life, also has houses of contemplative life, where religious<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3606,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3629","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ive.org\/iveorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ive.org\/iveorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ive.org\/iveorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ive.org\/iveorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ive.org\/iveorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ive.org\/iveorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7155,"href":"https:\/\/ive.org\/iveorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3629\/revisions\/7155"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ive.org\/iveorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ive.org\/iveorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}