Divine Word Missionaries

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Consecration is the basis of religious life...
Consecration is a divine action.
God calls a person whom he sets apart
for a particular dedication to himself.

Assumptionists - Augustiani ab Assumptione - AA Augustinians - Order of Saint Augustin - OSA Benedictines - Confœderatio Benedictina - OSB Benedictines - Order of Saint Benedict - OSB Blessed Sacrament - Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament - SSS Carmelites - Ordo Fratrum Beatissimae Virgini Mariae de Monte Carlo - OCarm Cenacle Sisters -  RC Charity - Religious Sisters of - RSC Chretienne - Sisters of St. Christian Brothers - De La Salle Brothers of the Christian Schools - FSC Cistercians - Cistercian Order - OCist Cistercians - Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance (Trappists) - OCSO Claretians - Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Claretian Missionaries) - CMF Comboni Missionaries - Missionari Comboniani del Cuore di Gesù - MCCJ Companions of the Holy Saviour - Congregation of the - CSSS Daughters of Charity - Company of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul - DC Dominicans - Order of Preachers - OP Faithful Companions of Jesus - FCJ Felix of Cantalice - Congregation of the Sisters of Saint - CSSF Franciscans - Order of Friars Minor - OFM Crusade of the Holy Spirit Holy Cross - Congregation of - CSC Immaculate Heart of Mary - Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary - IHM Jesuits - Society of Jesus - SJ Legionaries of Christ - LC Marianists - World Council of the Marianist Family - SM, FMI, AM, MLC, MIV Marians - The Congregation of Marians of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary - MIC Marist Brothers - FMS Mary Immaculate Queen - Religious Congregation of - CMRI Maryknoll Missioners - Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America - MM Missionaries of the Poor - Joyful Service With Christ on the Cross - MOP Missions Etrangères de Paris - Les MEP au service des Eglises d'Asie - MEP Notre Dame de Namur - Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur - SND Oblates of Mary Immaculate - The Missionary - OMI Our Lady of the Mission - Sisters of Our Lady of the Mission - RNDM Paulists - Paulist Fathers - CSP Passionists - Passio Christi - CP Presentation of Mary - Sisters of the - CPM Redemptorists - Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris - CSsR Resurrection - Congregation of the - CR Sacred Heart - Society of the - RSCJ Sacred Heart of Jesus (The Congregation of the Priests of the) - SCJ Sacred Heart of Mary - Religious of - RHSM Salvatorians - Society of the Divine Savior - SDS Salesians - Salesiani di Don Bosco - SDB Sion - Congregation of Our Lady of - Sisters of Mercy of the Americas - RSM Xaverian Brothers - Brothers of Saint Francis Xavier - CFX Xaverians - Xaverian Missionaries - SX

The resulting relationship is pure gift.
It is a covenant of mutual love and fidelity,
of communion and mission,
established for God's glory,
the joy of the person consecrated,
and the salvation of the world.

Sacred Congregation for Religious and for Secular Institutes
(Essential elements in the Church's Teaching on Religious life §5.)