In her 39 years of consecrated life, Irene Alemany has worked in youth ministry, in schools, as territorial director of the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi in Mexico and in Colombia-Venezuela. Irene was born in Spain and is currently the community director in Medellín (Colombia), advising on the pastoral care of Regnum Christi schools in Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador. She also offers spiritual direction and guidance to consecrated women and religious.
What began as a specific request for spiritual direction to a religious congregation facing difficulties has evolved into a comprehensive effort of accompaniment and formation for consecrated women. This work has fostered a profound ecclesial experience, allowing Irene Alemany to leverage her lived experience as a consecrated member of Regnum Christi to help other communities by offering them hope, support, and guidance.
In this work, Irene has had the opportunity to support daily discussions during the month-long exercises of another congregation and has been providing spiritual direction and periodic formation to various religious sisters. She is currently teaching a course for superiors of religious congregations in Medellín.
«My job consists of help these women of God to live in the face of God and to have an experience of a consecration that has meaning in what God is asking of you in your concrete circumstances. To guide them with your particular charisma, give hope, and help them live by essentials., ...not to get caught up in things that happen, but to hold onto that for which we have given our all our lives, without letting the world obscure the deeper "why" of our consecration.
By sharing good and not-so-good experiences, solidarity and hope are built, knowing that these things happen in the life of the Church, but that God is behind it all. It gives you an understanding of how God sees us, how He sees this Church that is holy and sinful, and it also helps you to have a deeper aspiration for holiness, knowing that to the extent that there is a deeper surrender to God, He does everything.
Irene shares five key elements in this apostolate
ListenListen to the Holy Spirit to be a channel of His grace in deep listening to people.
Accompaniment To help religious sisters live in the presence of God and have an experience of consecration according to what He asks of them in their concrete circumstances.
Training To empower the woman behind the habit, and to rekindle the sense of her consecration.
Church Experience: Experience the Church as a large family in which we love, complement, and need each other.
Guide them from their own charisma: appreciate the particular charism of each congregation in its contribution to the common mission of the Church.
