Chapter

 1 Intro |    everyday environment: community life as we live it in the Society.
 2 Intro |       Actually, however, community life was not neglected. The summarizing
 3 Intro |           concept of our community life, enriched by all that the
 4 Intro |           development of community life. It reminds us in one paragraph
 5 Intro |            ought to mark our daily life and, in another, that community
 6 Intro |            another, that community life must not be self-centered
 7 Intro |      basically shapes our style of life; and it could hardly have
 8 Intro |            left it to the ordinary life of the Society to take charge
 9 Intro |       crucial renewal of community life, "our way of proceeding
10 Intro |           verdict on our community life.~It is important to acknowledge
11 Intro |           hard things in community life, one senses that men everywhere
12 Intro |      mission in the real community life that we experience.~All
13 Intro |            our apostolic community life more clearly and in detail.
14 Intro |            variations on community life, every one of them fashioned
15 1     |          that challenges community life. In its survey of the Society,
16 1     |         stance that damages common life and common work. This individualism
17 1     |          stamp on Jesuit community life, clearly differentiating
18 1     |            or conventual community life.~Though it is a mistake
19 1     |          325).~Thus, our community life will be characterized by
20 1     |          body... for the sake of a life that is apostolic in many
21 2     |           dynamic of our community life by inviting us to make it
22 2     |       dream. This is why community life has begun to give a witness:
23 2     |      possible in Christ. Community life does not consist only of
24 2     |           can be realized in human life. "Community life itself
25 2     |          in human life. "Community life itself is a manifold testimony
26 2     |      without saying that community life with such an apostolic scope
27 2     |        responded to in consecrated life in the steps of Him who
28 2     |        poor.~Wanting our community life to give witness has not
29 2     |        through "a close sharing of life and goods, with the Eucharist
30 3     |            koinonia, our community life is being nourished by the
31 3     |         cloister or in a community life conceived of as an end in
32 3     |    envisioned creating a community life that would not be rooted
33 3     |       taking an active part in the life of a community already in
34 3     |          all united, our community life comes second, as a function
35 3     |            while assuring that its life will remain open to union
36 4     | fundamental shape to our community life, how might it affect our
37 4     |             can not only support a life of dedicated chastity, but
38 4     |           agreement that community life supposes a demanding brotherhood.
39 4     |          the first priority in our life together (GC 34, 537ff).~
40 4     |            defined their community life in two words, still in use
41 4     |            comradeship of military life, in which he found true
42 4     |      imagery connected with family life. The recent General Congregation
43 4     |          most satisfying community life will never fully oust the
44 5     |      concrete acts~Thus, community life is born of a common call
45 5     |    gathered in Jerusalem and given life by the Spirit. Jesus established
46 5     |            ideal for our community life has its roots in the foundational
47 5     |           in Christ. ~If community life has its profound spiritual
48 5     |          born of grand ideals, but life in community depends on
49 6     |            the center of apostolic life for each of us individually.
50 6     |           to its centrality in the life of the community – especially
51 6     |     koinonia, the close sharing of life and goods in the service
52 6     |          the mysteries of Christ's life – our way of celebrating
53 7     |        there is no ideal community life. With his usual realism,
54 7     |         real progress in community life. The evidence is very clear:
55 7     |           is very clear: community life cannot grow without the
56 8     |             that make up community life. Evidence comes from all
57 8     |           In general, the personal life of Jesuits is simple and
58 8     |           Society toward community life more in harmony with the
59 8     |            them the reason for our life in common: Christ and his
60 8     |           NC 233, 234), signs of a life of evangelical poverty (
61 9     |            is unanimous: community life is hard. The first book
62 9     |         the Lord has preserved our life (Ex 60) so that we can accompany
63 9     |         acceptance keeps community life from being barren and even
64 10    |       responsibility for community life under the pretexts that
65 10    |          that a comfortable common life is not in itself one of
66 10    |    priority over against community life; that poses a risk every
67 10    |     serious as favouring community life to the point of hurting
68 10    |      ourselves responsible in real life for our mission before the
69 10    |            he engages in community life – as both are gifts from
70 11    |            the growth of community life as Master Ignatius envisioned
71 11    |     Exhortation on the Consecrated Life" and a document from the
72 11    |          Institutes of Consecrated Life, "Fraternal Life in Community."
73 11    |       Consecrated Life, "Fraternal Life in Community." Reading these
74 11    |            reflection on community life.~
75 Conclu|            the same way, community life is the joy of living together