he evangelical counsels, gift of the Trinity

20. The evangelical counsels are thus above all a gift of the Holy Trinity. The consecrated life proclaims what the Father, through the Son and in the Spirit, brings about by his love, his goodness and his beauty. In fact, “the religious state reveals the transcendence of the Kingdom of God and its requirements over all earthly things. To all people it shows wonderfully at work within the Church the surpassing greatness of the force of Christ the King and the boundless power of the Holy Spirit.”

POST-SYNODAL APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION « VITA CONSECRATA »OF THE HOLY FATHER JOHN PAUL II

(25-03-1996)