Constitutional text - Chapter Tree - Our Community life

not e:xperience our faith and prayer life in a community
way, then the faith community ceases to exist, and our
own persona! prayer life is often diminished or weakened.
As persona! prayer is meant to vitalize cornrnunity prayer,
so too corrununity prayer is meant to fortify and often carry
us in our persona! prayer life.
We therefore want our Constitutions to hold us responsible
to come together often as a cornrnunity to pray. We have also
changed the arder of the following sentences because we
believe that more than being an e:xpression of our solidarity,
our conununity prayer life is first of all the source of the
love and faith that helps us live effectively a solidarity
in mission and also in life style.
In order to s trengthen the bonds of brotherhood which w1i te us, we
shall take advantage of the opportunities for being together offered
by community meals, recreation in common and other practices
which e:x-press human friendship in our respective countries. These
are occasions for rnaking our spirit of brotherhood a concrete
reality.
The changes are minimal, primarily dictated by the change
of wording in the previous paragraph. In English we have
changed the term "togetherness" to simply "being together"
because "togetherness" was a trendy tenn popular in the 60s
but seldom used at present.
Finally, if our corrmnmities are to be a living sign of Christ's
love for all men, they Jm.1St always be open, extending a warm welcome
to priests, religious and laymen and especially our relatives. Our
hospitality will thus be a sign of our joy and of our desire to be
"all things to all men. "
Remains unchanged.
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