SEE, JUDGE, ACT analysis of religious decline

There may be interested in reading an essay, A Call To Religious Life Worldwide, on the crisis in numbers in religious orders written by Jose Maria Vigil, a priest from Spain working in Central America, who uses the SEE, JUDGE, ACT methodology to try to determine ways to address the present trend. Below is one of his concluding paragraphs. To read the whole essay go to

http://eapi.admu.edu.ph/eapr006/josemariavigil.htm

This is not the time to pause and listen nostalgically to the hymn Nearer, My God, To Thee being sung on the stern of the Titanic. We have to learn how to move beyond the past and launch out into the future. We have to stop trying to fix what cannot be fixed and clothe ourselves in new life.
Re-establish or recast? We see that re-establishment is not the answer. The events of the past 15 years show the failure of the attempts of re-establishment within the system. We must recast the heavy metal that weighs us down, recast it in the furnace, form new molds, recast it outside the system so that instead of being crushed it can have a possible future. We do not need any more attempts at re-establishment, of repeating the past; what we need is a mutation, a substantial change.