Theology of Religious Life:
Volume 1: From the Origins to Our Days
By José Cristo Rey García Paredes, cmf
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As a charismatic event, Religious Life is outstanding. The tree of Religious Life has always grown and expanded with remarkable vitality, from the first ascetics, virgins and anchorites or cenobites during the 2nd, 3rd and 4th centuries, and up to our days.

Religious Life is a phenomenon born gratuitously but which eventually developed towards indispensability. Strong internal threats failed to eliminate the sources of its vitality. Religious Life dies but is born again. It goes through the normal cycles of birth, life and death, but it keeps an inexplicable charismatic right to exist.

Theology of Religious Life:
Volume 2: Vocation and Charism
By José Cristo Rey García Paredes, cmf
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The Abbá, through the Son and the Spirit, continues calling. He calls laborers to his harvest. This is the event of the great Con-Vocation. He raises groups and communities with different characteristics and gifts. Among them we find the admirable convocation we call Religious Life in all its forms, and within this, vocations with charisms of paternity and maternity of founders and foundresses.

Through time, the particular vocation to Religious Life of each institute continues emerging within these parameters of convocation. The study of the phenomenon of the particular vocation of Religious Life requires a context to give it foundation and meaning.

Theology of Religious Life:
Volume 3:Mission
By José Cristo Rey García Paredes, cmf
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Mission wells up from the womb of God, who sends us his Son, and from his Son, also sends us the Holy Spirit. Mission is the starting point of all the paths of God. In this movement of God's self-giving, the different forms of Religious Life take their origin and from that context they assume an identity and function in the Church.

Religious Life traces its origins in the dynamism of the mission which comes from God. It is the form of Christian life wherein persons are "consecrated and sent to the world" by the Abbá, in the same way as Jesus was, in order to exercise a symbolic-prophetic and liminal function within the missionary Christian community.

Theology of Religious Life:
Volume 4:Communion and Community
By José Cristo Rey García Paredes, cmf
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The dynamism of communion in Religious Life is actualized in different levels and forms which, respecting diversity, generates an amazing unity and beauty.

The thought of a single mission with many ministries makes us reflect about the essential importance of communion as a principle of unity. Mission is impossible without communion. The one who makes mission possible, the Spirit of the Abbá and Jesus, likewise makes communion possible-that wonderful coinciding of the many in one.

Religious Life is a call, a vocation to communion. At the same time, it is an evangelical and pneumatological event. We express its evangelical character when, following tradition, we speak about evangelical counsels. On the other hand, we express its pneumatological character, its charismatic nature, when we speak of consecration, profession, or charism.

The Consecration of the Religious
Foundations and Implications for Everyday Religious Life
By Fr. Samuel H. Canilang, CMF
Softcover, 186 pp.
Price: PhP 165.00
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This book situates the consecration issue within the context of the search for a biblically, theologically and ecclesiologically appropriate and meaningful basis for understanding the specific vocation and mission of the religious. It then looks for the roots of consecration in the experience and theology of the People of God, visiting the Scriptures and the spiritual and normative writings of the early religious-virgins and monks. It also gathers and makes a synthesis of the teachings of the Church on the consecration of the religious, and also refers to opinions of contemporary theologians on the issue. Then it presents a summary of the resulting key points of the study. Lastly, after the theoretical part, it discusses the study's implications for the everyday life of the religious.

" The topic discussed in this book is fundamental for consecrated life, but the subject matter itself is not easy. Theologians are still discussing so many issues surrounding it. In this book, Fr. Canilang points out where the difficulties are, and then faces them and grapples with them in an honest and sincere way."

J. Rovira, CMF
Professor, ITVC-Claretianum
Rome

CANONICAL ISSUES RELATED TO RELIGIOUS LIFE
200 Practical Questions and Answers
By Elias L. Ayuban, Jr., cmf
Softcover, 196 pp.
Price: PhP 195.00
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This book helps clarify some doubts and issues that pertain to Canon Law such as: how should the Superior and the council proceed with a deliberative act; what are the norms that regulate a capitular election; what are exclaustration, dismissal, and "leave of absence;" what is the authority of diocesan Bishops over religious institutes; and many more.

CONSECRATED RELIGIOUS LIFE
The Changing Paradigms
By Diarmuid O'Murchu, msc
Softcover, 278 pp
Price: PhP 225.00
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This book evaluates afresh the time-honored traditions of the vowed life that seem to have served their time. It also names and describes the new horizons of meaning and hope we are now invited to embrace. And perhaps, most helpful of all, it describes the transition from the old to the new, offering insights that help to make sense of the turbulent and challenging times in which we live.

THE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY
A Guide to Community Living for Religious
By Samuel H. Canilang, cmf
Softcover, 122 pp.
Price: PhP 150.00
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The religious community is essentially missionary, and fraternal communion is evangelical witness par excellence. This book re-roots the religious community in the Judeo-Christian Tradition, engages today's emerging values and challenges, and offers ways to revitalize and make fraternal communities more responsive to our postmodern, globalized society.