Community and GrowthPaulist Press, 1989 - 331 pages If you've ever thought about community, whether as a lifestyle or simply as an expression of deeper fellowship with others, this book is essential reading. In the fifteen years since it first appeared in English, it has become the classic text on the subject -- read, dog-eared, borrowed, and discussed.Vanier is not a rosy idealist. That is because his writing is based not on theories, but on a wealth of wisdom gleaned over many years living in community, experiencing difficult days and joyous celebrations, times of struggle and hard-won success, moments of doubt and inspiration. He acknowledges the inevitable little frustrations of a life lived with and for others, but he also helps the reader see that without struggle there is no true growth. |
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... longer part of a homogeneous group . Cities are made up of neighbours who do not know each other - and this will soon be true of villages too . People live in a pluralistic society , and many today are the children of inter - cultural ...
... longer part of a homogeneous group . Cities are made up of neighbours who do not know each other - and this will soon be true of villages too . People live in a pluralistic society , and many today are the children of inter - cultural ...
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... longer live isolated from others , nor can each group or country be isolated within its own frontiers . They are becoming more and more con- scious that the whole of humanity , fragmented as it is , broken up into so many conflicting ...
... longer live isolated from others , nor can each group or country be isolated within its own frontiers . They are becoming more and more con- scious that the whole of humanity , fragmented as it is , broken up into so many conflicting ...
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... longer by the power of social tradition , then all ecclesiastical organisation is largely at the service of these communities : they are not means to serve the 4 Epistle of St James , ch . 2 . ends of an ecclesiastical bureaucracy ...
... longer by the power of social tradition , then all ecclesiastical organisation is largely at the service of these communities : they are not means to serve the 4 Epistle of St James , ch . 2 . ends of an ecclesiastical bureaucracy ...
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... longer we journey on the road to inner healing and wholeness , the more the sense of belonging grows and deepens . The sense is not just one of belonging to others and to a community . It is a sense of belonging to the universe , to the ...
... longer we journey on the road to inner healing and wholeness , the more the sense of belonging grows and deepens . The sense is not just one of belonging to others and to a community . It is a sense of belonging to the universe , to the ...
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... longer assume the function that the community finds most useful ; he or she can even physically leave . The ways of God for the individual are not always those of the people at the head of the community or what human reason and ...
... longer assume the function that the community finds most useful ; he or she can even physically leave . The ways of God for the individual are not always those of the people at the head of the community or what human reason and ...
Contents
LXV | 173 |
LXVI | 174 |
LXVII | 177 |
LXVIII | 181 |
LXIX | 182 |
LXX | 183 |
LXXI | 185 |
LXXIII | 189 |
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XV | 47 |
XVI | 49 |
XVII | 50 |
XVIII | 55 |
XIX | 61 |
XX | 64 |
XXI | 66 |
XXII | 68 |
XXIII | 72 |
XXIV | 76 |
XXV | 78 |
XXVI | 79 |
XXVII | 82 |
XXVIII | 84 |
XXIX | 85 |
XXX | 88 |
XXXI | 90 |
XXXII | 93 |
XXXIII | 95 |
XXXIV | 97 |
XXXV | 98 |
XXXVI | 101 |
XXXVII | 104 |
XXXVIII | 108 |
XXXIX | 109 |
XL | 113 |
XLI | 115 |
XLII | 118 |
XLIII | 120 |
XLIV | 126 |
XLV | 128 |
XLVI | 131 |
XLVII | 134 |
XLVIII | 139 |
XLIX | 141 |
L | 142 |
LI | 143 |
LII | 144 |
LIII | 149 |
LIV | 152 |
LV | 155 |
LVII | 157 |
LVIII | 158 |
LIX | 160 |
LX | 161 |
LXI | 162 |
LXII | 165 |
LXIII | 169 |
LXIV | 171 |
LXXIV | 194 |
LXXV | 195 |
LXXVI | 199 |
LXXVII | 203 |
LXXVIII | 205 |
LXXIX | 209 |
LXXX | 212 |
LXXXI | 216 |
LXXXII | 218 |
LXXXIII | 221 |
LXXXIV | 224 |
LXXXV | 227 |
LXXXVI | 229 |
LXXXVII | 231 |
LXXXVIII | 236 |
LXXXIX | 238 |
XC | 240 |
XCI | 247 |
XCII | 249 |
XCIII | 250 |
XCIV | 251 |
XCV | 253 |
XCVI | 254 |
XCVIII | 255 |
C | 256 |
CI | 260 |
CIII | 261 |
CIV | 262 |
CV | 265 |
CVI | 270 |
CVII | 272 |
CVIII | 273 |
CIX | 274 |
CX | 280 |
CXI | 282 |
CXII | 283 |
CXIII | 284 |
CXVI | 288 |
CXVII | 290 |
CXVIII | 297 |
CXIX | 300 |
CXX | 302 |
CXXI | 303 |
CXXII | 304 |
CXXIII | 307 |
CXXV | 313 |
CXXVI | 322 |
CXXVII | 325 |
CXXVIII | 328 |
CXXIX | 329 |
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Common terms and phrases
accept afraid aggression anguish authority beautiful become body bring brothers and sisters Bruno Bettelheim called celebration child Christ Christian community Church commit communion covenant create danger deepen Dietrich Bonhoeffer difficulties discernment discover egoism emotional essential Eucharist everything external faith Father fear feel fidelity forgiveness gift give grow growth handicap healing heart Henri Nouwen Holy Spirit hope human important individual inner freedom insecurity Jean Vanier Jesus leader listen live in community loneliness marriage means meeting Missionaries of Charity Mother Teresa nourishment ourselves Parker Palmer peace person poor poverty pray prayer presence priest prophetic realise recognise reject relationships responsibility role Roman Catholic Church Scott Peck seek share simply someone sometimes spiritual guide suffering Taizé community tensions Thérèse de Lisieux things true truly trust truth unity vision vulnerable weakness welcomed words wound
Popular passages
Page 45 - A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.
Page 127 - If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
Page 93 - I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; I know their sufferings, 8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians...
Page 34 - Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
Page 71 - If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.
Page 301 - Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
Page 7 - Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Page 49 - For as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
Page 58 - Now the company of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had everything in common.