Cara Week,
we are becoming a country "free society" and a church "without community." This is the truth. The model tends to dominate the parish that is still one of the "service station". The minority of practitioners tend to live a dynamic devotional and moral, only in the observance of the "Christian duty" of the Sunday mass. But the church should not have in his "DNA" theme generator "community"? We are invited to learn about even more to be "people of God," to be a sign of the community of the "last days". Religion is, in itself, a community act, an event that builds relationships, creates links and original constraints.
The very word "church" has lost all contact with the truth that the word meant, in common parlance today refers to a "where", a "place" or a "building", a "geometric space". But in itself means exactly "people torn to loneliness and put together by God."
The term "company town without" is the key to analysis and diagnosis that I've done the socio-cultural and socio-pastoral work of the Brazilian Diocese of St. Paul in 2006. If you do not react to this problem, the church can become a reality decorative.
For if the Holy Spirit has already made his decisive move 40 years ago with the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) and put at the center of theology, spirituality and pastoral care is no longer the design inspiration of God Almighty and almost eternal one and lonely that was reflected in the leading role of the clergy, but the Trinity! From this change we can say that everything remains the same and at the same time, everything changes, and indeed, everything remains the same only if everything changes! Continuity and innovation, not preservation or breaking means to participate in the "living tradition" of the church.
Thus, the source and origin of all there is "us God." In this way we are called to become the "we the Church," where everyone has a name, a place, role and voice. All subjects and all authors, the Spirit of Jesus, life and mission of the Christian community. This revolutionizes the image and the figure of all: that of the laity, religious and priests. Of course, forty years of post-conciliar period - despite being a full-time biblical and symbolic, and per unit - are nothing to put hand to create a new image of the church community. At stake is the transition from the model of "church and society" to the "church-community." But it's still here that need to go back and it is from here that should be allocated.
The loss of the streets, the crisis of society and the values \u200b\u200b... all right, but to no avail operation nostalgic. Someone says: "As we were fine once ...". Who is feeling sorry for himself, does not solve the problems, but it increases them, and above all made them worse. With the rhetoric of "Amarcord" you do not create society, but only omissions and distortions. The old rural social era, with its lights and shadows, is over. Today is emerging with difficulty, and a lack of the most, the "global social." The third-world, which are the only ones to do even a symbolic use of the square, as we did up until 20-30 years ago, indicating a new germ of sociality that is both global and local citizenship and a new universal human rights .
There is no turning back now where there's nothing left. It should be bolder and move on. The promises and potential, however, be translated into projects, laboratories, testing and active in twinning. It is not good to leave the country adrift, leaving them to grow - so wild - only two components: work-with-business and family. It is tyranny "economistic" attack and it also distorts the private and the staff of the couple and the family. We can not become if we give ourselves to become in a new country, community, society and the city.
The function of the church is on his shoulders this eclipse of global social and active citizenship, intercultural relations and interactions, to encourage new generative processes. Here's the multi-ethnic resource waste practitioners of the Swiss! If in the past the church has acted as a "substitute solid" as "church-society ', with the hegemony of the ecclesiastical power, today it is called to perform a function of "supply light" as a church-community, with the hegemony of spirituality, a spirituality of communion, which provides space for information, listening, dialogue and communication. A spirituality that makes the church "home" and "school" of free and creative relationships, equality and reciprocity. A spirituality that is realistic dynamics of reconciliation and forgiveness offered his gym routine, otherwise everything dies before you start.
For example, in an hour's meeting there can happen some misunderstandings. They can cripple the meeting if you do not close forever, as well as raise the ability to speak and listen. No one all that is natural: it must be conquered humble, and generous with long learning. We must accept and embrace the "kiss of peace" not seven times but seventy times seven! We need a spirituality that organic gradually teach us to think, to decide to act and to explore with the pastoral life and action. Methods and pedagogies appropriate to the laity, are increasingly beginning to take the word as subjects of the church. And appropriate too - why not? - To us priests that we are not alone and the ones who have the final word. These take into account the diversity of roles and inevitable gap between the skills of the priest and the laity.
began to take on a new scenario which is much more exciting than the decline of Christianity and Constantinian Trent. With references and highlights that the Spirit has offered thanks to Vatican II, we can work with renewed enthusiasm to continue the renewal of the church, marrying the theme generator of communion. Thus we become more experienced in communion, taking advantage of the "genius of the Trinity" of early Christianity and sources, since "the present conditions of the world add greater urgency to this duty of the church, so that all men and women, now more closely joined from various social, technical and cultural, can also achieve full unity in Christ "(LG 1).
Don Gino Moro
Better World Foundation Onlus
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