Cubefield Ultrasonic Level

The community as a path to the meeting of communion

Per vivere a community progetto ci vuole arrest him, prima di tutto, eat a "progetto" EEOC, come qualcosa che if will giorno dopo giorno e costruendo per We also want to do this, forward to the encounter of communion. The community life is thus to walk in discernment to the meeting of communion.

What is a meeting of communion?

To answer this question we must first clarify what we mean by communion ? It is not the "merger" in one of two in order to get rid of the differences. If the differences disappear, disappears if the conflict is a sign that one has managed to impose itself on the other. The fellowship is credible only when it includes a certain level of conflict and can live with that. Every defense of the communion that does not integrate the conflict is ideological, and therefore hide some form of manipulation.

Communion is not even identify with the other to the point of causing a shadow of loneliness a discrepancy, of neglect or indifference. The community is neither his girlfriend, lover, or the bride. The desire to be a dream that blooms continuously in the human heart by which we are awakened by the inevitable rifts in our relationships with others. The Promised Land communion is not conquered if not proceeding in this thorny desert conflict .

Communion is rather that meeting that occurs when two people come into line with underlying emotional and existential levels . The common-union takes place in that center staff that defines us and makes us in a radical way and that, therefore, has the power to relativize our differences, although it does not cancel it altogether. Until it reaches the meeting of communion, the person should come out by itself, distracting attention from their own narcissism and coincides with some of his more interesting vital. When two people are no longer focused on himself to focus on God, open up unexpected opportunities for meeting and cohesion, capable of saving the greatest differences. Sharing God's call does not eliminate the differences in character and taste, sensitivity ... neither the differences between the ways of understanding that God But God has the power to give us progressively closer cohesion and love of love, despite our differences in sensitivity, culture, ideas ... until we come to accept and love one another sincerely in the difference.

Communion is growing at a dialectical between the poles of autonomy / interdependence . The size and at the same time, the difficulty of the Christian and religious communities is that the defense of plurality and diversity is as important as the affirmation of the communion (1 Cor. 12, 4-11).

There is no community or communion without recognition of differences . The conditions for a true communion are the 'authenticity each to its own truth, communication of his inner life, the than identity theft and tune in vital interests. Communion can never be imposed from outside. It flourishes when everyone participates in a clean manner, and starts, in authenticity of vocation, to the encounter of the other.

The best of me does not occur to me or you, but in that space we create , you and I, when we build communion together by discernment (not imposing) towards our common vital interests. In the words of Martin Buber, the essence of life does not happen to me or you, but in the space that we are able to create between us when we live in relationships.

The spirit is not in the ego, but between you and me. It's not like the blood that circulates in you, but as the air we breathe [...] Only because of his power to relate, the man is capable of living in the spirit (Buber, 2004, p. 77).

In this journey toward communion not go forward without giving the best of themselves and sharing levels of your inner self, how to reconcile the strained condition of human existence shared bipolarity. You can create communion only if you share the inner life.


So teach us to:

- live more "for others" and " for us, "

- bring the dialectic between the personal aspect and the Community,

- live autonomy experience of belonging as something culminating

- gain more freedom and love of dealing with conflict, thus enhancing the growth of the fraternity

- accepting the differences as something constituting life in every community

- accept them as they are and give him time in which to grow up in freedom

- to discover that everyone can be a cause of happiness or of suffering for their brothers, and that this in part depends on him.

Personal growth is to awaken the inner processes of transformation, from the need to be heard and their motivations (customization). Every believer customization process must be developed to the encounter of communion with another, toward integration into a concrete community and to the sense of belonging. Who does not advance towards greater integration and towards a greater sense of belonging, does not advance the personalization process. Those who socializes too much within the group risks losing its identity and independence.

Love, which customizes what is more, is an encounter with the other free.

bibliographical references

Buber M. (2004), The dialogical principle and Other Essays , Milan, San Paolo.

Buber M. (2005), Tu y Yo , Madrid, Caparros.

Ilarduia JP (2007), The community project. Way Meeting and communion , Bologna, EDB.