The Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious hosted the Symposium, "To Wake up the World: Religious Life as Prophetic Witness," November 13-14, 2015. This Symposium on Religious Life was a national event where scholars and religious came together to discuss the beauty of religious life, a life of prophetic witness. The book is a compilation of the talks given over the two-day event.

On cover: CMSWR A Symposium on Religious Life.

Life on high in Christ Jesus : the prophetic dimensions of religious life / Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia -- The evangelical counsels and the salvation of the world : how the prophetic witness of the consecrated life has always served the renewal of the church / Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens -- Christological and ecclesiological foundations of religious life / Reverend Christopher Collins -- The authority of women religious in the heart of the church / Sister Sara Butler -- The consecrated woman and non-competing charity / Reverend David Vincent Meconi -- Charism and essential elements. Apostolate as prophetic witness / Mother Agnes Mary Donovan, Sister Constance Carolyn Veit -- Prayer as essential to the prophetic witness of religious / Sister Regina Marie Gorman -- The evangelical counsels and the prophetic witness of poverty / Sister Clare Matthiass -- Prophecy and prophetic way of life in the works of Saint Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis / Sister Mary Prudence Allen -- Religious/consecrated life at the heart of the church / Sister Mary Nika Schaumber -- Scriptural understanding of a prophetic vocation / Mother Mary Timothea Elliott -- Prophetic witness of various forms of consecrated life. The prophetic witness of secular institutes / Danielle M. Peters -- The prophetic witness of consecrated virgins / Mary Kay Lacke -- The prophetic witness of societies of apostolic life / Sister Anne Marie Walsh -- God : the eternal exchange of love / Sister Ann Shields.