In the contemporary Church, there is a growing phenomenon within the Consecrated Life.  While we could see signs of abandonment, crisis, or disintegration, a new horizon opens.  Those charisms by which an order, institute, or congregation are identified are received by lay people, ordained ministers, or even people of other religions.  Following the Breath of God, the tent "widens," and together become an entire family.

At the same time, little is said about the strong presence and prominence of the Paraclete among religious men and women.  This work focuses its attention on two great moments: the revelation of the Holy Spirit in the Holy Scripture and its reception in the history of the Church, on the one hand, and the new configuration of the Church in the Charismatic Families under its gaze and influence, on the other.

JOSÉ CRISTO REY GARCÍA PAREDES, CMF is a member of the Congregation of Missionaries, Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Claretians). He is arenowned theologian, a Mariologist, and an expert in the Theology of Consecrated Life. Fr. Cristo Rey was also appointed by Pope Francis as a consultant to the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (CIVCSVA) for five years. He has taught at the Institute of Religious Life of Madrid and also an annual special course at the Institute for Consecrated Life in Asia (ICLA) (Philippines) as well as at the Higher Institute of Pastoral (Pontifical University of Salamanca). Currently, he continues to teach theology as a professor emeritus at the Regina Apostolorum School (Madrid), at the Formation Center of Taiyuan (Shanxi–China), and the Institute of Consecrated Life Sanyasa in Bangalore (India).