Let us continue with Joy our journey towards the Year of Consecrated Life, so that our preparation may itself be a time of conversion and grace. By his words and actions, Pope Francis continues to demonstrate the fruitfulness of a life lived proclaiming this, as he invites us to go forward, to be "a church which goes forth" according to a logic of freedom. He urges us to leave behind us "a worldly Church with superficial spiritual and pastoral trappings, " In order to breathe "the pure air of the Holy Spirit who frees us from self-centeredness cloaked in an outward religiosity bereft of God. Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of the Gospel!" consecrated life is a sign of good things to come in human civilisation, as it travels onwards "in exodus" along the paths of history. It is willing to come to grips with provisional certainties, with new situations and challenges as they develop, with the clamorous demands and passions of contemporary humanity.