PER VINO NUOVO IN OTRI NUOVI

Per vino nuovo otri nuovi. Dal Concilio Vaticano II la vita consacrata e le sfide ancora aperte (LEV 2017) contains the reflections deriving from the Plenary of the Congregation for Institutes of consecrated life and Societies of apostolic life which took place from 27^th to 30^th November 2014 on the theme «New Wine in New Wineskins.Consecrated life, 50 years since the Lumen Gentium and the Perfectae Caritatis», an analysis on the journey made by consecrated life in the post-Council period, examining synthetically the challenges still standing.

These Orientamenti are also the result of the numerous meetings during «the Year of consecrated life, when consecrated men and women from all over the world met in Rome, at Saint Peter’s See». (page 7). The Teaching of the Church, from the Second Vatican Council, has always accompanied the lives of consecrated people also through the great and significant support of books such as «le Istruzioni Potissimum institutioni (1990), La vita fraterna in comunità (1994), Ripartire da Cristo (2002), Il servizio dell’autorità e l’obbedienza. Faciem tuam (2008), and Identità e missione del Fratello religioso nella Chiesa (2015)». Per vino nuovo otri nuovi  is set within a line of «exercise of evangelical discernment, in which we can try to recognise -  in the light of the spirit – that “call” made by God in the same historical situation: Also in it and through it God calls» (page 8).