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Within worship, the Church is formed at its deepest essence, and the liturgy—especially the Eucharist—builds members into a dwelling place for God in the Spirit while signaling outwardly to those outside. 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ROLE OF THE RELIGIOUS WOMANIN THE CHURCH IN OUR TIME  \nNOVEMBER 1965 VOLUME 37NUMBER 3  \nReligious Initiation:Its Sacramental.Dimensions 69Sister Mary Pierre,C.PP.S.  \nThe Poor in Spirit 78Sister Rose Michael,C.S.].  \nProblems and Opportunities in the Convent 87Sister Teresa Mary De Ferrari,C.S.C.  \nBulletin Board 93  \nPoem 96  \nGwendolyn Brooks  \nBook Reviews 96  \nNIHIL OBSTAT:Reinold Theisen,O.S.B.,Censor Deputatus  \nIMPRIMATUR:函Peter W.Bartholome,D.D.,Episcopus Sancti Clodoaldi  \nPublished monthly by monks of Saint John's Abbey,Collegeville,Minnesota.Editor:Rev.Ronald Roloff,O.S.B.Book Review Editor:Rev.Myron Kasprick,O.S.B.Poetry Editor:Rev.Raymond Roseliep.Cover Design:Fr.CajetanPalluck,O.S.B.Indexed in the Catholic Periodical Index.  \nAddress all correspondence except poetry to Sisters Today,Saint John’s Abbey,Collegeville,Minnesota,56321._(Checks payable to Sisters Today.)Poetryshould be sent to Rev.Raymond Roseliep,Loras College,Dubuque,Iowa,52003.All manuscripts should be accompanied by self-addressed envelope and postage.  \n1 year $2.50;2 years $4.00;single copy 25 cents.Sterling area (exceptAustralia):1 year 18s;2 years 29s;single copy 1s 11d.Australia:1 year23s;2 years 37s;single copy 2s3d.Agent for India:Asian Trading Cor-poration,Post Box No.1505,Bombay-1.Printed by Sentinel Publishing Com-pany,413 East St.Germain Street,Saint Cloud,Minnesota.(Do not sendmail to this address.)Second Class postage paid at Saint Cloud,Minnesota.  \n# Religious Initiation:Its Sacramental Dimensions\n\nSISTER MARY PIERRE,C.PP.S.  \nIf the renewal within the Church is doing anything,it is surelypointing up the fact that worship is a dynamic,living reality.Itconstitutes a personal love-relation with God.In this inter-personalmeeting,it is always God who takes the initiative.It is man'sprivilege freely to respond to the loving invitation.And this re-lationship is far from being an individualistic thing.It is perfected—nay more,it is possible only—within community.  \nToday we are becoming increasingly aware of the fact thatit is this relationship with God in worship which constitutes theChurch in her deepest essence.Even as Israel of old existed essen-tially\"in relation to Yahweh\"and was gathered before his faceto worship him,so the Church is most truly herself at worship.Paragraph 2 of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy graphicallyasserts that it is the liturgy,especially the divine sacrament of theeucharist,which builds up those who are within the Church intoa dwelling place for God in the Spirit,and at the same time showsthe Church as a sign to those outside it.  \nThere is an ever-growing consciousness,too,that the Christianlife is more than morals and sentiment;it is constituted by sacra-ment.“Though it(the Christian life)can absorb pietism andmoralism,it certainly cannot be constituted by them.\"If this istrue of the Christian life in general,then a fortiori the religiouslife must be constituted by an act of worship,by liturgy,by asacramental.Father Godfrey Diekmann,O.S.B.,with his usualclear and deep insight,put it thus at a workshop in programs inspirituality:\"By definition,therefore,we are those who first ofall are dedicated to worship.\"2  \n1Gustave Weigel,S.J.,Catholic Theology in Dialogue(New York,Harperand Brothers,1961),p.50.  \n2 Godfrey Diekmann,O.S.B.,\"The Eucharist as Center.\"Sister FormationBulletin,Vol.XI,No.3(Spring,1965),p.3.  \nSeen against the background of these considerations,perhapsthe ceremonies by which a person is initiated into the religious lifewill take on a different hue,and also come into clearer perspective.In most,if not in all,religious communities the first step whichhas an official ritual is known as reception.This has,in someinstances at least,become THE ceremony par excellence.Oftenthere is an abundance of finery,an external show n","cbCaiqvGef5HTZdo","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqvGef5HTZdo","pdf",1940716,52,"English","# Religious Initiation: Its Sacramental 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