Aktualność propozycji pedagogiczno-formacyjnej zawartej w numerze 70 adhortacji „Vita Consecrata”

No 70 of post-synodal exhortation Vita Consecrata by John Paul II (1996) under the characteristic title In a constant search for faithfulness distinguishes itself against the background of other Church’s Magisterium documents on con-tinuing formation by offering more integral and comprehensive vision of develop-ment stages of an adult person called to a consecrated life. It also presents, in an innovative way, a possibility to experience a vocational crisis as a significant part of the formation process as well as suggests specific ways to help a person in crisis and provides development guidelines. While comparing suggestions offered by No 70 of Vita Consecrata post-synodal exhortation to contemporary theories of development psychology and andragogy concerning the development in subsequent stages of adult life and development opportunities offered by development and situaltional crises, one may conclude that Vita Consecrata suggestions are indeed valid and integral ones. They are definitely worth both further theoretical studies and putting them into practice in formation processes of religious congregations and training cours-es organized for directors of formation of religious communities in charge of both initial and continuing formation.