Chapter,Paragraph,Number
1 Intro, 0,1 | new vitality to religious community, but they have also given
2 Intro, 0,1 | fraternal life lived in community. In some places, it seems
3 Intro, 0,1 | it seems that religious community has lost its relevance in
4 Intro, 1,2 | renewed vision of religious community.~More than any other factor,
5 Intro, 1,2 | understanding of religious community. Vatican II affirmed that
6 Intro, 1,2 | and holiness.(3)~Religious community thus participates in the
7 Intro, 1,2 | mystery dimension of religious community~Religious community is not
8 Intro, 1,2 | religious community~Religious community is not simply a collection
9 Intro, 1,2 | communional-fraternal dimension of religious community~Religious community, in
10 Intro, 1,2 | religious community~Religious community, in its structure, motivations,
11 Intro, 1,2 | charismatic dimension of religious community~Religious community is a
12 Intro, 1,2 | religious community~Religious community is a living organism of
13 Intro, 1,2 | the members of a religious community are seen to be bound by
14 Intro, 1,2 | the entire Body. Religious community exists for the Church, to
15 Intro, 1,2 | apostolic dimension of religious community~The purpose of apostolate
16 Intro, 1,2 | fraternal communion of religious community derives its vigour as sign
17 Intro, 1,2 | renewed vision of religious community with fresh insights.(8)~
18 Intro, 2,3 | determinations concerning community life. ~When it speaks of "
19 Intro, 2,3 | in common".(12)~Thus, in community life, two elements of union
20 Intro, 2,3 | visible: "life in common" or "community life", which consists of "
21 Intro, 2,3 | law which must apply to community life the patrimony of every
22 Intro, 3,4 | general and on religious community in particular.~a) Movements
23 Intro, 3,4 | significant repercussions for community life as well.~A one-sided
24 Intro, 3,4 | common and commitment to community projects.~We also observe
25 Intro, 3,4 | characterise a religious community.~e) Consumerism and hedonism,
26 Intro, 3,4 | new styles of personal and community life which are a clear evangelical
27 Intro, 3,4 | witness of the wider Christian community.~
28 Intro, 4,5 | by a sharpened sense of community, understood as fraternal
29 Intro, 4,5 | approaching problems, through community dialogue, co-responsibility
30 Intro, 4,5 | involved in the problems of the community. This greatly affected interpersonal
31 Intro, 4,5 | they tend to differ from community to community.~
32 Intro, 4,5 | differ from community to community.~
33 Intro, 5,6 | distanced themselves from the community ideal, so that they may
34 Intro, 5,7 | as follows:~a) Religious community as gift: before being a
35 Intro, 5,7 | communion.~b) Religious community as place where we become
36 Intro, 5,7 | fraternity by the religious community.~c) Religious community
37 Intro, 5,7 | community.~c) Religious community as place and subject of
38 Intro, 5,7 | choices which a religious community is called to carry out in
39 I | COMMUNION AND THE GIFT OF COMMUNITY~
40 I, 0,8 | construction, religious community is a gift of the Spirit.
41 I, 0,8 | Spirit, from which religious community takes its origin and is
42 I, 0,8 | to understand religious community unless we start from its
43 I, 2 | Religious community as expression of ecclesial
44 I, 2,10 | In fact, the religious community has felt itself to be in
45 I, 2,10 | communities looked to the community of the disciples who followed
46 I, 2,10 | followed Christ and to the community of Jerusalem as their ideal
47 I, 2,10 | centuries, many forms of community have arisen under the charismatic
48 I, 2,10 | impossible to speak of religious community univocally. The history
49 I, 2,10 | all Christians. Religious community is a visible manifestation
50 I, 2,10 | called to be an ecclesial community in the Church and in the
51 I, 2,10 | to the possibility of a community of goods, of fraternal love,
52 I, 2,10 | to other members of the community more delicate and respectful,
53 II | II. ~RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY AS PLACE FOR BECOMING BROTHERS
54 II, 0,11 | brothers and sisters in a given community where all are called to
55 II, 0,11 | work of building up the community of brothers and sisters,
56 II, 0,11 | profile and life of religious community.~Starting from a number
57 II, 1,12 | every authentic Christian community is seen in "itself a theological
58 II, 1,12 | follows that a religious community is, above all else, a mystery
59 II, 1,12 | dimension which binds religious community to the mystery of divine
60 II, 1,12 | and communicated to the community, we inevitably come to forget
61 II, 1,12 | profound reasons for "making community", for patiently building
62 II, 1,12 | considered the foundation of all community life, starts from contemplation
63 II, 1,13 | Lk. 21:36), a religious community needs to be watchful and
64 II, 1,13 | exhausted. In fact, religious community is regulated by a rhythmic
65 II, 1,14 | strongly convinced that community is built up starting from
66 II, 1,14 | As happened in the first community in Jerusalem (cf. Acts 2:
67 II, 1,14 | alive and present in the Community to sustain and inspire it
68 II, 1,14 | oratory as the centre of the community,(31) where members can nourish
69 II, 1,14 | From this all education for community spirit must begin".(32)~
70 II, 1,15 | celebrated and lived in community prayer, on the interior
71 II, 1,15 | consecrated person who lives in community nourishes his or her consecration
72 II, 1,15 | dialogue with God and through community praise and intercession.~
73 II, 1,16 | 16. In recent years, community prayer has been enriched
74 II, 1,16 | requiring this of an entire community. It is well to recall that
75 II, 1,17 | communal prayer. A religious community lives constantly in the
76 II, 1,18 | communion for the religious community.(33)~The Mother of the Lord
77 II, 1,20 | Lord's name, [a religious community] is of its nature the place
78 II, 1,20 | brothers and sisters within the community.~Men and women consecrated
79 II, 2,21 | In the entire dynamic of community life, Christ, in his paschal
80 II, 2,21 | conscious as they were that community cannot be improvised. It
81 II, 2,21 | In much the same way, a community inserted within the Church
82 II, 3 | the power of this love a community is brought to life as a
83 II, 3,22 | desires. The highest ideal of community necessarily brings with
84 II, 3,22 | attitude contrary to communion.~Community that is not mystical has
85 II, 3,22 | mystical has no soul, but community that is not ascetic has
86 II, 3,23 | be not only consumers of community, but above all its builders;
87 II, 3,23 | sacrifices required for living in community, to accepting them in view
88 II, 3,24 | independent life, detached from community, has surely not taken the
89 II, 3,24 | life may be born.(36)~Thus community becomes "Schola Amoris,"
90 II, 3,25 | frailty. The perfect "ideal community" does not exist yet: the
91 II, 3,25 | walk together towards a community that is able to live in
92 II, 3,26 | called to live together in a community, it is necessary to cultivate
93 II, 3,26 | indications helpful for community living such as joyful simplicity,(38)
94 II, 3,27 | such joy within a religious community: overwork can destroy it,
95 II, 3,27 | evangelical quality of a religious community; it is the end point of
96 II, 4,28 | the life of a religious community. The deeply felt need to
97 II, 4,28 | enhance fraternal life in community is accompanied by a corresponding
98 II, 4,30 | Regular meetings at the community level, often on a weekly
99 II, 4,30 | problems concerning the community, the institute, the Church,
100 II, 4,30 | addition to concern for community life, these meetings are
101 II, 4,30 | must be pursued in every community, adapting its rhythms and
102 II, 4,30 | approaches to the size of the community and to the members' commitments.
103 II, 4,31 | living together in the same community. The lack of or weakness
104 II, 4,31 | relationships are sought outside the community.~This problem should be
105 II, 4,31 | God, communal discernment, community projects),(43) we should
106 II, 4,31 | and of pouring into the community the gifts which the Spirit
107 II, 4,31 | and attentive listening, community members run the risk of
108 II, 4,32 | times are raised within a community. These human techniques
109 II, 4,33 | internal communication.~A community, aware of the influence
110 II, 4,33 | use them for personal and community growth, with the evangelical
111 II, 4,33 | planning in the regular community meetings?~In particular
112 II, 4,33 | media,(44) accompanied by community discernment, can help the
113 II, 4,33 | discernment, can help the community know better the complexity
114 II, 5 | Religious community and personal growth~
115 II, 5,34 | 35. Because religious community is a Schola Amoris which
116 II, 5,35 | person and the religious community are a proposal of the Gospel,
117 II, 5,36 | both inside and outside the community.~To love one's vocation,
118 II, 5,36 | institute, and to experience the community as one's own family.~To
119 II, 5,36 | the ability to live in community" are particularly relevant.~
120 II, 5,36 | experiences prior to entering the community, but they can also be a
121 II, 5,36 | result of difficulties in community or apostolate. A rich and
122 II, 5,36 | is necessary for life in community, a cordial fraternal life
123 II, 5,36 | maturity. Where members of a community become aware of diminished
124 II, 5,36 | response on the part of the community ought to be one of rich
125 II, 5,37 | who are not at ease in community, and who thus are an occasion
126 II, 5,37 | others and of disturbance in community life.~We must first of all
127 II, 5,37 | clearly incapable of living community life due to problems of
128 II, 5,38 | with no reference to the community.~On the other hand, we must
129 II, 5,38 | individuals and those of the community, between personal charisms
130 II, 5,38 | personal charisms and the community's apostolate. And this should
131 II, 5,38 | communitarianism. Religious community is the place where the daily
132 II, 5,38 | commitment entrusted to the community, from seeking "my things"
133 II, 5,38 | In this way, religious community becomes the place where
134 II, 5,39 | order to realise such a community and apostolic "symphony",
135 II, 5,39 | brothers and sisters to the community that each may be a gift
136 II, 5,39 | in the first place to the community and that this often entails
137 II, 5,39 | Dedication to this kind of community apostolate helps a consecrated
138 II, 5,39 | consider themselves sent by the community. For its part, the community
139 II, 5,39 | community. For its part, the community shall see to their regular
140 II, 5,39 | reviews of apostolic and community commitments.~During the
141 II, 5,40 | situation, it is easy for a community to close in on itself and
142 II, 5,40 | very nature of religious community and to its function as sign.
143 II, 5,40 | Pneumatic strength of a community and robs the spiritual reality
144 II, 5,40 | reality which rules the community of its power as witness. ~
145 II, 5,40 | reason which brought the community into existence, that is,
146 II, 5,40 | 10).~We stay together in community not because we have chosen
147 II, 5,42 | Being a community in permanent formation~43.
148 II, 5,42 | permanent formation~43. Community renewal has greatly benefited
149 II, 5,42 | sensitising all the members of a community, the absorbing demands of
150 II, 5,42 | in daily life. Religious community is the place where broad
151 II, 5,42 | daily efforts. Religious community is, for everyone, the place
152 II, 5,42 | growth of others. Religious community is also the place where,
153 II, 5,42 | obvious consequences for community life. From this arises the
154 II, 5,42 | visions into one single community life, in such a way that
155 II, 5,42 | of those responsible for community becomes ever more important;
156 II, 5,42 | particular attention: the community dimension of the evangelical
157 II, 5,43 | 44. The community dimension of the evangelical
158 II, 5,43 | however, which is lived in the community of a religious family. Religious
159 II, 5,43 | religious into one single community of life. Consecrated together --
160 II, 5,43 | in one single fraternal community, endowed with a specific
161 II, 5,43 | mission, but also to the community which must carry out its
162 II, 5,43 | but it also enriches the community, enabling it to serve God
163 II, 5,43 | different from that of fellow community members and from the poverty
164 II, 5,43 | the poverty professed.~A community of "poor" people is better
165 II, 5,43 | of the beatitudes.~In the community dimension, consecrated chastity,
166 II, 5,44 | element for the unity of the community.~To live in community is
167 II, 5,44 | the community.~To live in community is to live the will of God
168 II, 5,44 | promoted the unity of the community, which is seen as bearer
169 II, 5,45 | vitality of a religious community.~Several factors have been
170 II, 6,47 | altogether unnecessary to community life, and others have reduced
171 II, 6,47 | a complete breakdown of community life; it tends to give priority
172 II, 6,47 | growth of fraternal life in community and for the spiritual journey
173 II, 6,47 | even within the religious community, nevertheless, we must not
174 II, 6,47 | 5:12-13). The Christian community is not an anonymous collective,
175 II, 6,48 | up of fraternal life in community.~Every community has a mission
176 II, 6,48 | life in community.~Every community has a mission of its own
177 II, 6,48 | in authority thus serve a community which must accomplish a
178 II, 6,49 | sisters of "a fraternal community, in which God is sought
179 II, 6,49 | task will be the spiritual, community and apostolic animation
180 II, 6,49 | animation of his or her community.~b) Authority conducive
181 II, 6,49 | among the various aspects of community life -- between prayer and
182 II, 6,49 | history, but a "fraternal community in Christ".(67)~c) Authority
183 II, 6,49 | assuring their implementation ~Community discernment is a rather
184 II, 6,50 | respective competence of the community, the various councils, departmental
185 II, 6,50 | confusion and conflict.~"Community projects", which can help
186 II, 6,50 | increase participation in community life and in its mission
187 II, 6,51 | is rampant, a religious community is called to be a prophetic
188 II, 7,53 | the individual and for the community. For some, "building community"
189 II, 7,53 | community. For some, "building community" is felt as an obstacle
190 II, 7,54 | 55. A religious community, if and to the extent that
191 II, 7,54 | the mission of a religious community, but it is an essential
192 II, 7,54 | or to justify defective community life. Activities undertaken
193 II, 7,54 | activities of people who live in community and who inform their actions
194 II, 7,54 | inform their actions with community spirit by word, action and
195 II, 7,54 | and spirit of his or her community.~
196 II, 7,56 | Within a truly fraternal community, each member has a sense
197 III | III. ~RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY AS PLACE AND SUBJECT OF
198 III, 0,57 | world, so every religious community, as an authentic Pneumatic
199 III, 0,57 | as an authentic Pneumatic community of the Risen One, is also,
200 III, 0,57 | communion".(72)~No religious community, including specifically
201 III, 0,57 | Risen One, who lives in the community, communicating his own Spirit
202 III, 0,58 | Religious community and mission~Before reflecting
203 III, 0,58 | therefore by different kinds of community.~b) The contemplative type
204 III, 0,58 | The contemplative type of community (showing forth Christ on
205 III, 0,58 | The "apostolic" religious community (showing forth Christ among
206 III, 0,58 | possibility of their forming community. Others are decidedly oriented
207 III, 0,58 | and for them the type of community depends on the type of mission.
208 III, 0,58 | apostolic body and one large community to which the Holy Spirit
209 III, 0,58 | various kinds of religious community that have been handed down
210 III, 0,58 | that "common life lived in community" does not have the same
211 III, 0,58 | understanding and living religious community.~This diversity is presented
212 III, 0,58 | character of the religious community.~c) It is generally recognised,
213 III, 0,58 | daily experience to balance community and apostolic commitment.
214 III, 0,58 | without losing the authentic community character of religious life.~
215 III, 0,58 | ways of living religious community.~e) The tendency, in some
216 III, 0,58 | to emphasise mission over community, and to favour diversity
217 III, 0,58 | the intimate bond between community and mission, in order creatively
218 III, 1,59 | presence of a religious community is developed within the
219 III, 1,59 | not only does a religious community bear in itself the richness
220 III, 1,59 | Cor. 13:13), a religious community enriches the Church of which
221 III, 1,59 | Church herself.~A religious community loves the particular Church,
222 III, 1,59 | specificity of the religious community have been dealt with in
223 III, 1,59 | communion between religious community and the particular Church.~
224 III, 1,59 | can tempt both a religious community and the particular Church
225 III, 1,59 | collaboration.~The religious community runs the risk, on the one
226 III, 1,59 | independence of a religious community in relation to a particular
227 III, 1,59 | assimilation of a religious community into the particular Church.~
228 III, 1,59 | Church.~Just as a religious community cannot act independently
229 III, 1,59 | its needs, of a religious community or of any of its members.~
230 III, 1,59 | the charism of a religious community serves neither the good
231 III, 1,59 | nor that of the religious community itself. Only if a religious
232 III, 1,59 | itself. Only if a religious community has a well-defined charismatic
233 III, 1,59 | truly fraternal religious community will feel in duty bound
234 III, 1,59 | enable the entire Christian community to consider itself "the
235 III, 1,60 | co-ordinate parish life and community life.~In some regions, the
236 III, 1,60 | difficulties of living in community while being active in parish
237 III, 1,60 | institute's charism and to community life, to the point that
238 III, 1,60 | best service a religious community can give to the Church is
239 III, 1,60 | to parishes which allow a community to live as community and
240 III, 1,60 | allow a community to live as community and where the religious
241 III, 1,60 | the more the religious community is present in its charismatic
242 III, 1,60 | advantage for both the religious community and the pastoral work, in
243 III, 1,61 | divisions into the religious community.~It is, then, opportune
244 III, 1,61 | with those of a religious community.~Also, there can be different
245 III, 1,61 | full harmony with their own community and spirituality. However,
246 III, 1,61 | challenge to a religious community, to its spiritual dynamic,
247 III, 1,61 | fraternal life. A religious community should be open to encounters
248 III, 1,61 | and for their religious community, it is good to recall the
249 III, 1,62 | helped to live a life of community. This requires space for
250 III, 1,62 | the poor and the religious community itself, a true experience
251 III, 1,63 | that the apostolate have a community dimension. This programme
252 III, 1,63 | activity, between moments of community intimacy and apostolic work.
253 III, 1,63 | margination from the broader community of the institute.~d) Even
254 III, 1,63 | between the two kinds of community is made fruitful by a climate
255 III, 1,63 | undertake in the name of the community, for persevering fidelity
256 III, 1,64 | not do so if there is a community of their institute reasonably
257 III, 1,64 | decrease in the membership of a community, to the point that a single
258 III, 1,64 | with members living outside community, it is the duty of these
259 III, 1,64 | place where there is no community of their own institute,
260 III, 1,64 | institute, this kind of "community life" can be advantageous
261 III, 1,64 | requires them to live outside community, and superiors should likewise
262 III, 1,64 | involving long absences from community, need careful discernment
263 III, 1,64 | even when living outside community, are subject in areas relating
264 III, 1,64 | members no longer live in community, such institutes would no
265 III, 1,65 | factors can be obstacles for a community ideal.~The important thing
266 III, 1,65 | that they promote regular community meetings and, as soon as
267 III, 1,66 | implications touching on community. Generally, it is a question
268 III, 1,67 | of the situations which community life faces more often today
269 III, 1,67 | progress of medicine.~For a community, on the one hand this fact
270 III, 1,67 | their new way of building community and collaborating in the
271 III, 1,68 | is normally an autonomous community, it is difficult for it
272 III, 1,68 | same Order when a monastic community, by reason of the number
273 III, 1,69 | In this way, a religious community becomes a centre radiating
274 III, 1,69 | lay persons.~A religious community has its own needs of animation,
275 III, 1,69 | Otherwise, a religious community would lose its own character,
276 Conclu, 0,70| 71. A religious community, as an expression of the
277 Conclu, 0,70| search for communion and community".(87)~For some consecrated
278 Conclu, 0,70| this invitation to build community together with the Lord,
279 Conclu, 0,70| example of the earliest community: "and they devoted themselves
280 Abbr, 4 | which lies at the heart of community.~
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