Ad Honorem Immaculatae Conceptionis Mariae Oblatio

175 If this process is not noticed and responded to early enough, it will likely lead to the actual death of the community or to a simulation of life, which will only be working externally. In the latter case, the community will be preserved for some time at least, but it will inevitably lose its religious iden- tity. It will slowly change into a kind of secular charitable institution that fulfills only some temporal goals, which is, de facto , also its death.