Lying prostrate on the floor of the sanctuary. The Church singing the litany of the saints over you.

What is that experience like as a woman being consecrated to Christ?

In this episode, Karen, Hannah, Simi and Dawn talk about the experience of prostration in the rite of consecration.

They talk about how they spiritually prepared for such a moment of self-surrender, how they chose extra saints to be included in the litany… and even the practicalities of prostrating on the sanctuary.

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“Father, receive my resolution to follow Christ in a life of perfect chastity which, with God's help, I here profess before you and God's holy people.”

With these words, the woman to be consecrated gives her firm and definite resolve to lay down her life completely for Christ and his Church.

Can a person ever be ready to make such a solemn resolution? Is such a resolution a flight from relationship? Does it require a superhuman force? In this Easter episode, Karen, Hannah, Simi and Dawn talk about placing their hands into their Bishop’s and making this resolution.

“Celibacy is … presented as a free choice that takes place in the relational space that is the body. With this choice the person responds to the God of love who calls and reveals himself in the face of Christ. This is not a flight from relationship, nor is it the fruit of superhuman force, but a gift that belongs to the dynamism of the transfiguration of relationality that distinguishes the style begun by Jesus: evangelical fraternity, the basis of reconciled humanity and the foundation of koinonía on which the life of the Church is based.” Ecclesiae Sponsae Imago, 15

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What does it feel like to resolve to “persevere to the end of your days in the holy state of virginity”? And to “accept solemn consecration as a bride of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God”?

These are two of the three questions to which a virgin gives her free consent during the Bishop’s examination leading up to the rite of her consecration.

In this Holy Week episode, Karen, Hannah, Simi and Dawn talk about their experiences of giving their free consent to their Bishops.

“The charism of virginity, accepted by the woman and confirmed by the Church through consecration, is a gift that derives from the Father, by means of the Son, in the Spirit.”

Ecclesiae Sponsae Imago, 23

The four wildflowers also discuss the graces they have received during Lent.

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