Chapter
1 Intro | Jesuits' everyday environment: community life as we live it in the
2 Intro | Society. Actually, however, community life was not neglected.
3 Intro | Ignatius's concept of our community life, enriched by all that
4 Intro | link between our apostolic community and our apostolic chastity.
5 Intro | responsibility for the development of community life. It reminds us in one
6 Intro | life and, in another, that community life must not be self-centered
7 Intro | sharing of material things in community, which basically shapes
8 Intro | issue of the witness the community gives or does not give. "
9 Intro | separate decree to say more on community? The General Congregation
10 Intro | this crucial renewal of community life, "our way of proceeding
11 Intro | give its verdict on our community life.~It is important to
12 Intro | experiences and the hard things in community life, one senses that men
13 Intro | Christ's mission in the real community life that we experience.~
14 Intro | understand our apostolic community life more clearly and in
15 Intro | live again the apostolic community experience of the first
16 Intro | concretely in many variations on community life, every one of them
17 1 | individualism that challenges community life. In its survey of the
18 1 | distinctive stamp on Jesuit community life, clearly differentiating
19 1 | from monastic or conventual community life.~Though it is a mistake
20 1 | is that no one in the community is reduced to a cipher,
21 1 | their energies to build the community, so that "a certain atmosphere
22 1 | upon" (NC 325).~Thus, our community life will be characterized
23 1 | each one in the apostolic community to open himself responsibly
24 1 | responsibly to Christ's mission. A community can never develop among
25 1 | nothing but themselves; a community can reconcile individual
26 2 | impacts the dynamic of our community life by inviting us to make
27 2 | experience of the first community in Jerusalem in modern terms (
28 2 | unattainable dream. This is why community life has begun to give a
29 2 | is possible in Christ. Community life does not consist only
30 2 | realized in human life. "Community life itself is a manifold
31 2 | goes without saying that community life with such an apostolic
32 2 | the ex-officio letters: a community lifestyle that speaks of
33 2 | for the poor.~Wanting our community life to give witness has
34 2 | we live as "an apostolic community whose focus of concern is
35 3 | 3. In community or in dispersion, one body
36 3 | Church for koinonia, our community life is being nourished
37 3 | confines of a cloister or in a community life conceived of as an
38 3 | be concretized in a local community, surely, but would never
39 3 | governs both living in a local community and the need to work outside
40 3 | Ignatius envisioned creating a community life that would not be rooted
41 3 | active part in the life of a community already in existence or
42 3 | cf. NC 317).~If a local community does not exhaust all possible
43 3 | program or project for their community living (NC 324, 2).~A community
44 3 | community living (NC 324, 2).~A community must not think of itself
45 3 | conditions of the local community, which is a privileged realization
46 3 | which we are all united, our community life comes second, as a
47 3 | movement that establishes each community in service of Christ's mission,
48 4 | fundamental shape to our community life, how might it affect
49 4 | to be in agreement that community life supposes a demanding
50 4 | first Jesuits defined their community life in two words, still
51 4 | 243) and that living in community does not take the place
52 4 | even the most satisfying community life will never fully oust
53 4 | hardly likely – of the entire community, instead of each assuming
54 5 | and concrete acts~Thus, community life is born of a common
55 5 | the original ideal for our community life has its roots in the
56 5 | Jerusalem, live in Christ. ~If community life has its profound spiritual
57 5 | the work required by every community, some time given to relaxation.
58 5 | grand ideals, but life in community depends on simple acts which
59 6 | The Eucharist fashions the community~It is the Lord himself who "
60 6 | centrality in the life of the community – especially on those days
61 6 | especially on those days when the community can most easily gather (
62 6 | can also be said about the community. While no one would want
63 6 | minimalism deprives our community celebration of that quality
64 6 | of "memory of me" which a community must have to be alive in
65 6 | remains true for today: A community that serves its own ends
66 6 | meal of the Lord". For the community unites itself in its daily
67 6 | friends and that we form community. Hence, our way of celebrating –
68 7 | candidly that there is no ideal community life. With his usual realism,
69 7 | hesitate to expel from a community and even from the Society "
70 7 | However, there are among us community members who resign themselves
71 7 | precludes any real progress in community life. The evidence is very
72 7 | evidence is very clear: community life cannot grow without
73 7 | point in the growth of the community, in the context of a community
74 7 | community, in the context of a community reconciliation (NC 236),
75 8 | evangelical lifestyle~The community reports show that the Society
76 8 | unpretentious care, that make up community life. Evidence comes from
77 8 | discernment (NC 326, 3), in community recreation. Because of the
78 8 | 176, 2), and to shape a community of solidarity that gives
79 8 | progress in the Society toward community life more in harmony with
80 8 | evangelical compact among the community members. No, all of the
81 8 | the reason for gathering a community in the Lord's name: the
82 8 | these also help identify a community gathered in the Lord's name.~
83 9 | This opinion is unanimous: community life is hard. The first
84 9 | As soon as we enter into community, we realize our incapacity
85 9 | he can be a self for the community. In its turn, the community
86 9 | community. In its turn, the community accepts each of us as we
87 9 | mutual acceptance keeps community life from being barren and
88 10 | personal responsibility for community life under the pretexts
89 10 | perspective, every minute spent on community is a minute wasted: the
90 10 | a priority over against community life; that poses a risk
91 10 | as serious as favouring community life to the point of hurting
92 10 | apostolic work. No prayerful community turned in on itself to the
93 10 | go anywhere and join any community (NC 315). Then, it can compel
94 10 | while attached to some local community (NC 317). And the dispersion
95 10 | Society, and which each local community has been called to embody
96 10 | and dialogue. And it is in community (which is itself mission)
97 10 | 315). Some others of the community are assigned the mission
98 10 | held as belonging to the community, meaning both the universal
99 10 | universal Society and the local community. This is how we make ourselves
100 10 | mission, we can integrate community spirit, the ongoing formation
101 10 | necessary relaxation, and community prayer. Particularly in
102 10 | prayer. Particularly in community prayer, each one pulls back
103 10 | freely as he engages in community life – as both are gifts
104 11 | each man for the growth of community life as Master Ignatius
105 11 | Life, "Fraternal Life in Community." Reading these two documents,
106 11 | guide our reflection on community life.~
107 Conclu| of God. In the same way, community life is the joy of living
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