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Tables of Contents for Community and Growth
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xiii
Acknowledgements
xvi
Introduction
1
12
One Heart, One Soul, One Spirit
13
48
Community as belonging
13
5
Community as openness
18
2
Community as caring
20
4
Community and co-operation
24
1
Community, a place of healing and growth
25
6
Sympathies and antipathies
31
4
Community as forgiveness
35
3
Have patience
38
3
Mutual trust
41
1
The right to be oneself
42
2
Called by God just as we are
44
3
Share your weakness
47
2
Community is a living body
49
1
Using our gifts
50
5
From `the community for myself' to `myself for the community'
55
6
Walking Toward the Covenant
61
23
A birth of hope
61
3
The call to families
64
2
Other paths
66
2
The first call
68
4
Leave your father, your mother, your culture
72
4
The beginning of the journey
76
2
Recognising the bonds
78
1
Choice for rooting
79
3
The final `Yes'
82
2
Mission
84
20
Coming together for a purpose
84
1
Universal mission to give life
85
3
General and specific mission
88
2
Clarifying the goals
90
3
The yearning for God and the cry of the poor
93
2
Jesus is the poor
95
2
The cry for love
97
1
Inner pain
98
3
The waters flowing over humanity
101
3
Growth
104
61
A community grows like a child
104
4
From heroism to dailiness
108
1
The vision is clarified
109
4
From monarchy to democracy
113
2
Openness to the neighbourhood and the world
115
3
Times of trial: a step towards growth
118
2
Tensions
120
6
Sending people away
126
2
The outsider's eye, or external authority
128
3
Growth in individuals and growth in community
131
3
Losing illusions
134
5
The second call
139
2
Prayer, service and community life
141
1
From doing to listening
142
1
Signs of sickness and health in community
143
1
Openness to others
144
5
The focal point of fidelity
149
3
Generating life
152
3
Expansion and taking root
155
1
Born from a wound
155
2
The role of Providence
157
1
The dangers of becoming rich
158
2
The risk of growth
160
1
I was a stranger and you welcomed me
161
1
Be zealous and repent!
162
3
Nourishment: Give Us Our Daily Bread
165
40
Growth needs nourishment
165
4
Food for each day
169
2
Times of wonder and of awe
171
2
Affirmation from outside
173
1
The Word as bread
174
3
Rest and relaxation: `the Sabbath Day'
177
4
Food for thought
181
1
Growth as nourishment
182
1
The friend
183
2
Sharing
185
1
The eyes of the poor
185
4
Personal prayer
189
5
Becoming bread
194
1
Communal prayer and Eucharist
195
4
The bread of pain
199
4
The bread of unity anticipated
203
2
Authority as a Gift
205
35
Authority
205
4
A mission from God
209
3
Being a servant
212
4
The danger of pride
216
2
Sharing responsibility
218
3
Community structures
221
3
Learning to listen and to exercise authority
224
3
Don't hide!
227
2
Personalised authority
229
2
Attitudes to authority
231
5
The sign of forgiveness
236
2
Letting the community evolve
238
2
Other Gifts in Community
240
25
The spiritual guide
240
7
The specific role of the priest or ordained minister
247
2
Community and work accompaniment
249
1
Psychological accompaniment
250
1
Each person has a gift to share
251
2
The gift of listening
253
1
The gift of discernment
254
1
Fidelity over time
254
1
The gift of wonderment
255
1
The gift of the `grandmother'
255
1
The gift of men and women
256
4
The anti-gift
260
1
The gift of animation
260
1
The gift of availability
261
1
The gift of the poor
262
3
Welcome
265
19
Giving space
265
5
Who welcomes?
270
2
Welcome: true and false
272
1
Welcoming Providence
273
1
Welcoming the vulnerable
274
6
Marginal people at the heart of the community
280
2
Welcome and service
282
1
The need for community
283
1
Meetings
284
13
Coming together to share
284
4
Coming together in the Spirit
288
2
Leading a meeting
290
7
Living with Every Day
297
16
Daily rhythm
300
2
Spirituality of movement and spirituality of the circle
302
1
The laws of matter
303
1
Love and poverty
304
3
The conflict between living littleness and political commitment
307
1
Political dimension of the community
308
5
Celebration
313
16
At the heart of community: celebration
313
9
Meals
322
3
Preparing the celebration
325
3
Invited to the wedding feast
328
1
Conclusion
329