Chapter 3 Marist Community

Community Life arising from the Trinity

47. It is in the love of the Trinity that community life has its origin. The Father wants all people to form one single family in which all will be loved as brothers and sisters¹. Jesus established a community with the apostles and prayed that we might be one, as He and the Father are one².

We answer the call of Christ by wanting to live together in a community of consecrated persons. Our unity shows that God is Love, and that this love, poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit³, is stronger than our human limitations.