SUMMARY: From diverse angles: all that it says and all that remains to be said, the «Approach to the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Vita Consecrata» puts in evidence some important points regarding the present and the future state of consecrated life, as they emerge from the document itself, and others that refer to the three dimensions: consecration, communion and mission. At the Pope's request, these points demand a continued reflection for a further deepening. The points taken into consideration are: the distinction between the evangelical institution of consecrated life enacted by Christ and its organisation enacted by the Church (n. 1); the nature of consecrated life, understood as foedus cum Christo, of which the evangelical counsels are the explicit element (n.2); the recovery of the typology of consecrated life (hermitical, monastic, canonical, apostolic), the overcoming of the «unique» model-first community of Jerusalem, and their bearing on the way of living and organising fraternal community within each Institute (n.3); the theological basis of the mission and the necessity of determining the specific moment of the life of Christ, which every Institute is called by a special vocation to live and proclaim fmisteryj (n.4); finally, the problems deriving from the recognition of the Mixed Institutes* {clerical and lay religious with an equality of rights and obligations) regarding the nature and origin of the «potestas regiminis».