The newly published Apostolic Constitution Vultum Dei quaerere – the search for the face of God offers the contemplative nuns twelve “themes for reflection and discernment” for the consecrated life in general. It is not against the use of social media, but these should not be occasions of “dissipation or evasion of fraternal life”. Do not “recruit” sisters just to avoid the closure of monasteries.
Prayer is meant “to enlarge the heart so as to embrace the whole of humanity”, especially the suffering; it is not a “withdrawal” of monastic life to itself. In a world that seeks God, even unconsciously, the consecrated persons must “become wise interlocutors” in “recognizing the questions that God and humanity are asking.”