Two Major Causes for Stress Loss and Unrealistic Expectations
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Community Life
Community and Communion: Making the Connections
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Giving Voice Summer 2009
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No Strangers in God's Family
From: Anthonty J. Gittins, Called To Be Sent, Ch. 8.
Liguory Press, 2008
ISBN 978-0-76480157307
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Community, Communitas, and Downward Mobility
From: A Presence that Disturbs - A Call to Radical Discipleship
by Anthony J. Gittins CSSp, 2002 Liguory/Triumph
ISBN 0-7648-0848-6
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Communion of Saints
Komanchak, Collins, Lane, Editors:
Entry on "Communion of Saints' and 'Community', From: The New Dictionary
of Theology Michael Glazier Inc. Wilmington, DE 1987 ISBN 0-81465525-4
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Dictionary of Spirituality Communion
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Obedience
The Questions of Jesus - Challenging Ourselves to Discover Life's Great Answers
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Building Community
Living Peace -A Spirituality for Conemplation in Action
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Revisiting Obedience
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Community Can't Be Taken For Granted
This reflection comes from Sr. Joan Chittister 's book
The Monastery of the Heart: An Invitation to a Meaningful Life (BlueBridge) .
From: http://ncronline.org/blogs/community-cant-be-taken-granted 6/26/2011
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Center for the Study of Religious Life Scholars Roundtable — May 2009
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How To Sew Unity In A Time Of Division
To keep your company culture strong in these troubled times, don’t let the things that divide the nation divide your organization.
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InFormation 2022 No. 1 : Book Review, Millennial Nuns : Reflections on Living a Spiritual Life in a World of Social Media, by Juliet Mousseau, RSCJ
InFormation Bulletins - InFormation 2022 No.1 Spring
"The eight individuals who contribute to the collection present their stories humbly and honestly. Readers will find their own story reflected in the joys and struggles the authors describe from their own lives. One sister speaks of her family’s dysfunction, another of divorce, one of moving around as a child, another of school bullies. One speaks of a time where she experienced depression, while another talks of loving a boyfriend and choosing atheism with him. Each one presents steps on the path that led her to her calling as a sister."
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InFormation 2022 No. 1 : The Spirit in the Assembly, by Austen Ivereigh
InFormation Bulletins - InFormation 2022 No.1 Spring
"Unlike synods in other traditions, the Roman version is consultative. Final responsibility for discernment and the decisions that flow from it lies with the bishops and ultimately the pope, who are assisted in their discernment by the body of believers. Or so the theory goes. In practice, before this pontificate any pre-synod consultation of the People of God was at best perfunctory, and the synods themselves were less exercises in discernment than confirmation of existing belief and practice. That has changed under Francis."
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InFormation 2018 No. 2 : Awaking to Our Thirst : Continuing Formation, by Thomas Johnson, FSC
InFormation Bulletins - InFormation 2018 No.2 Summer
"Through all of these programs, we aim to have Brothers and Lay Partners focus on their ministry, their journey and their spirituality. Ultimately each religious is responsible for his or her continuing formation but we all share the responsibility to accompany each other in awakening our thirst before seeking the water of the Spirit."
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InFormation 2018 No. 2 : Importance of Ongoing Formation for Dominican Sisters, Springfield, Illinois, by Marilyn Jean Runkel, OP, Ph.D.
InFormation Bulletins - InFormation 2018 No.2 Summer
"Several years ago, our congregation established six standing committees as resources for life and mission. These committees ordinarily meet quarterly to review, study and share with the entire community various aspects of living our Dominican charism of Preaching. The Ongoing Formation Committee (OGFC) consists of eight to twelve members who volunteer for a term of three years, renewable for a second three-year term. During the past three years the committee has focused on the integration of all areas of lifelong formation."
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InFormation 2018 No. 2 : Ongoing Formation : U.S. Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph, by Patty Johnson, CSJ
InFormation Bulletins - InFormation 2018 No.2 Summer
"For the U.S. Federation of the Sisters of St Joseph, ongoing formation is an unfolding and evolving process of responding to God’s call. It is a continuation of the initial commitment and expands our understanding and expression of the charism and spirituality of the Sisters of St Joseph. That understanding and expression changes, grows, and deepens through all the stages of life."
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InFormation 2018 No. 2 : Ongoing Formation for the Whole, by Ellen Dauwer, SC
InFormation Bulletins - InFormation 2018 No.2 Summer
"Ongoing/lifelong formation focuses on the continual growth of the whole person to promote a deeper, fuller commitment. Again, it is not about professional recycling or giving more information or helping members to be better informed. Ongoing formation is not the complement or correction of initial formation. Contrary to much of our thinking and structures, it doesn’t begin when initial formation is 'completed'."
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Re-Imagining Consecrated Life in a Changing World
In this podcast recorded live at the opening of CTU’s Center for the Study of Consecrated Life, Rev. Robert Schreiter, CPPS, delivers the lecture “Re-Imagining Consecrated Life in a Changing World.” Filmed on February 12, 2015.
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InFormation 2019 No. 1 : A Committed Way of Life, by Jeanne Connolly
InFormation Bulletins - InFormation 2019 No.1 Spring
"I define the associate way of life as 'Women and men who choose to make a public and formal commitment (covenant) to embody the charism and mission of a religious congregation within the Associate’s primary life vocation for the sake of all of God’s creation.' I consciously use the words 'choose', 'formal and public commitment' and 'embody' to describe this way of belonging to a religious community."
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InFormation 2019 No. 1 : Lifelong Formation for Franciscan Men in the U.S. : Musings from the Margins, by Michael A. Perry, OFM
InFormation Bulletins - InFormation 2019 No.1 Spring
"This same idea of spiritual accompaniment finds echo in the spiritual vision of St. Francis of Assisi. Francis models this concept of spiritual accompaniment through his regular visits to special places where he could step back from missionary engagement, and step into an intense experience of listening to the voice of God in the Sacred Scriptures, and in the events of his life and that of his brothers and of his ‘times’. Curiously, Francis never goes into the ‘silence’ of the mountain caves or other places alone; he is always accompanied by several of the friars."
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InFormation 2019 No. 2 : Formation for Community in the Current Ecclesial Context : Biblical Reflections, by Sandra Schneider, IHM
InFormation Bulletins - InFormation 2019 No.2 Summer
"The only solid basis for such a community life, the life of adult companions in Gospel living, which is based on mutual love, open communication, non-fearful observance of agreed upon goals and behavior, appropriate mutual submission to one another, in other words, that looks like Jesus’ band of friends, is in fact the Gospel-based imitation of Jesus. We cannot get it from or freeze it into rule books, rituals, regulations and so on. Like any form of human life, it must have procedures and rituals and even at times methods of ensuring appropriate behavior. But Jesus says it is essentially and literally a life of universal friendship, which is intrinsically egalitarian even if we need to differentiate roles and responsibilities for the sake of effectiveness in ministry."
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