Transcription of FRANCIS APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION - Vatican
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FRANCISAPOSTOLIC CONSTITUTIONVULTUM DEI QUAEREREON WOMEN S CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE31. Seeking the face of god has always been a part of our human history. From the beginning, men and women have been called to a dialogue of love with the Indeed, mankind is distin-guished by an irrepressible religious dimension that leads human hearts to feel the need albeit not always consciously to seek God, the Absolute. This quest unites all men and women of good will. Even many who claim to be non-believers acknowledge this heartfelt longing, present in all men and women who, drawn by a passionate desire for happiness and fulfilment, never remain fully satisfied. Saint Augustine eloquently expressed this yearning in the Con-fessions: You made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you .2 This restlessness of heart is born of the profound intuition that it is God himself who takes the initia-tive; he seeks out men and women and mysteriously draws them to seeking God, we quickly realize that no one is self-sufficient.
4 Apostolic Letterto All Consecrated Persons for the Year of Consecrated Life (21 November 2014), II, 2: AAS 106 (2014), 941. 5 John Paul ii, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Vita Consecrata (25 March 1996), 68: AAS 88 (1996), 443. 6 Benedict XVi, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini (30 Sep-tember 2010), 83: AAS 102 (2010), 754.
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