2003 HORIZON No. 3 -- Vocations and community life

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Living together, bumping up against each other, and inviting a new generation

By Carol Schuck Scheiber

There are days when I wonder if my life’s vocation as a married laywoman is a giant mistake. I’ve been known to mutter that it might be easier to pick up dying people from the streets of Calcutta than to deal with my ornery children for one more minute. Read more...

What do we mean by community? What do candidates dream about?

By Gaston Lessard SM

Talk about religious life and it won’t be long before you talk about community. Community is at the heart of the actual life of most religious. Read more...

What I was looking for in community and what I found

By Julie Brandt S.S.N.D.

I recently returned home from a provincial assembly meeting and found myself renewed once again by a sense of belonging to the School Sisters of Notre Dame. Strangely, in the midst of a weekend holding a great deal of tension and conflict, I found myself feeling very much at home. Read more...

Community life in the monastic tradition: a call to conversion

From its beginnings, monastic life has held the concept of community as one of its guiding values. Life in community is the place where we learn our frailties as individuals and where we practice the value of love for neighbor as taught by Jesus in the Gospel. Read more...

Community: ready or not?

By Kathleen Bryant R.S.C.

Wouldn’t we all be delighted to have an influx of new candidates eager to transmit our charisms to the next generation and to engage in our ministries with us? Or would we? With fewer people entering our various communities, some of us have not been particularly challenged to go out of our way to welcome new members and adjust to the dynamics created by these additions. In a quiet, subtle way we have become so used to things as they are, that the new member can seem like an intrusion rather than a welcomed and long-awaited member of our local communities. Read more...

Community, communitas and downward mobility

By Anthony Gittins C.S.Sp.

When we think of the word “community,” a number of images come to mind. We all have ideas, both of what community is or is not, and what it could be. Read more...

Outline of a successful vocation retreat for Hispanic young adults

Targeting overlooked Hispanics

By Clemente Barrón CP

A vocation minister who doesn’t collaborate with others in this ministry may soon suffer burnout. At the same time, vocation promoters today are aware that collaboration can be valuable at all levels of church life. Read more...

Follow up to NRVC's "Dimensions of Diversity" Convocation

By Sister Susan Kidd C.N.D.

In the winter 2003 issue, HORIZON presented the text of all the keynote presentations at Convocation 2002. The following two articles are a follow-up to the ideas our members generated in response to those presentations. Read more...

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