I fully share this article.
https://www.infocatolica.com/blog/cura.php/2604090106-vida-consagrada-insistir-y-ma#more48218
There has been a notable change; they refused to recognize a reality, a reality that was imposing itself. Today, listening to them, they seem to recognize that we are facing the chronicle of an announced death. We had been for a long time with octogenarians telling us about the spring that their congregation had at the door when what they had were years without knowing a novice. Pathetic the useless attempt to sell us death as the anticipation of better days. They are beginning to realize that tomorrow is nothing other than disappearance. Which they sought with zeal worthy of a better cause. They have encountered what they promoted. And in the vast majority of cases, already without remedy. The «better dead than observant» there they have it. Irremediable. Closure after closure. Until the last one, or the last one, turns off the light.
«The 55th national week of consecrated life is being celebrated in Madrid under the title “Facing the reduction. Walking and dwelling in the desert”. That is the reality.»
Tremendous the words of Antonio Bellella:
“In recent years, “a strong wind produced disorientation, a discouraging number of abandonments and a progressive loss of social relevance. Then, the fire consumed the forces (and burned many) during years of spiritual and intellectual controversies, defections, disappointments, hesitations and opposing positions”.
“Later, the earthquake arrived when the novitiates emptied, the aging process forced the closure of houses, many illusions collapsed at the same time that new projects did not fully take shape. Little by little, a triple realization imposed itself: that of being fewer, being older and being quite disoriented. Seen coldly and speaking with certain crudeness, we are a shadow of what we were”.
That’s how it is. That they themselves recognize it is a very notable change. Although I think it comes too late.