Apr 24, 2025 | CG XIX, Featured, fi, NewsCGXIX

The Hijas de Jesus are the Religious Life; we are the Church, and we live in a world that is in constant change. For this reason, in the morning and afternoon of April 23 and in the morning of April 24, we have had different illuminations that have helped us “understand ourselves” as a Congregation at this time. Below, we share some key ideas from each of these enriching interventions.

José Ignacio García Jiménez, SJ

Director for Christianity and Justice

He has brought us closer to the reality of the world, a reality of uncertain times in which it is difficult to predict the future.

The time we live in… is it a time of despair or a time of hope? It is a time to trust in what is not in our hands, and therefore it is a time to contemplate with hope.

It is a time of intuitions rather than of strong certainties…

This is not a sociological approach, but a readiness to get a glimpse of what God wants to tell us in and through reality.

The present moment calls for a gaze like that of the Good Samaritan, who assumes responsibility for reality, takes charge of it, deals with it, and allows this encounter with people, experiences, situations… to transform him or her.

Our personal, community, and congregational response is at stake in the understanding of the reality that this vision gives us…

Faced with the individualism that isolates people, we need community responses. Building community today is a strong sign of the Gospel.

Cristina Inogés – Theologian

She enlightens us about a Church which Pope Francis envisioned – we need a Church in the global context in which we live, a Church dreamt and designed in the style of Jesus, based on the Gospel, where the word Love has strength above all others.

 We are invited to weave relationships in a different way, relationships that help people to recognize themselves as intrinsically invaluable. We are called to be citizens {where we are moved by the common good) to care in the style of Jesus (welcoming, listening, non-exclusion, embracing…).

We still have a long way to go before ecclesial communities become diverse, and to bring to life what Francis insisted ‘in the Church there is room for everyone, everyone, everyone’. It is a call to generate diverse communities, communities of opposites.

We are called to be ‘new wineskins’ for the community and for the mission. Only a Church that overflows with the Holy Spirit is capable of mission. Faith must be adapted, risked in the context of the present socio-political-religious time that we are living in.

The Church needs shared leadership, people who are coherent between what they say and what they do, people who know how to listen in order to find solutions together.

Carmen Ros, NSC

Under-secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life

She invites us to look at the reality of Religious Life in our historical moment. The challenges for our Religious Life emerge from a globalized world, and from the experience of a universal and synodal Church.

We discover the changes which history impels us to live are:

a fragile religious life, aware that the historical moment requires audacity and courage

a prophetic religious life

a religious life that is part of a synodal Church and deepens its authenticity

a religious life with a new face of mission

a religious life that is faced with the challenge of sisterhood/fraternity

a religious life that is simpler, less structured

a religious life that focuses on formation

a religious life anchored and energized by hope.

The conversations in the Spirit that we have had in the groups on each of the blocks have helped us to discover confirmations, calls, diversity, desires… invitations to announce the Gospel from our charism.

Congregación General

https://hijasdejesus.org/en/illuminations-received-during-gc-xix/