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We do not need leaders
charismatic
sole, but we need
communities
that together bear witness to the Gospel
of the Lord.
Living within a community is difficult because
everyone is often after
his own interests.
So, more than the common good
the good of others,
the good to be achieved together
very often one seeks personal interest.
When personal interests are discussed
conflict results, while the search
for the common good, for the good of all
this is what we can build together
We are becoming aware
of the need of a community dimension.
The initial processes
for achieving this are giving good results
We realize that
if we are not together
sharing professional skills
we end up nowhere.
It means first of all putting
people at the centre
and seeking common ways,
together with refugees,
for a solution fo the problems,
to face a common future.
So we need to build a community
where everyone feels valued.
At our EUM Novitiate we have
people coming from different cultures and sometimes the most important task
is precisely
to be open to different cultures, to meet and
respect the other and try to understand
the aspects that unite us but also
accept those that make us different and live them
as a positive resource.
Another point I would like to mention
for a community living, is to have an education to the ordinary life,
not always linked to what is extraordinary and new
but rather live day by day
our common ground as each man does
and this is so absent nowadays.
Within apostolic communities
communication is difficult:
who are you going to address, what are you going to communicate, when..
what is important to communicate
It is already difficult among us
as Jesuit companions sometimes
because we either forget or think that
it is not important to communicate.
Imagine what it would be like when you increase the number of people within the community
who do not even live with you,
becouse they come in the morning and return home in the evening.
I believe that lay people,
especially those involved in administration and management,
can improve greatly the way
Jesuits relate with each other and with lay people
by being more transparent.
There are very few topics on which we must maintain
a certain privacy. We can talk about everything,
very openly. It is important that everyone
is informed properly so that decisions taken are
understood correctly. Sometimes when
the ability to communicate is missing
misunderstandings increase.
Instead a good apostolic community
is able to recognise
and indicate an orientation for everything.
We are five Jesuits, we are very open.
Almost every day we have someone, some guest
who visits
our community and this
openness to the presence of lay people
I believe, is a characteristic of the communities
in Romania.
This is also an encouragement for young people
when they see
lay people and Jesuits working together
united for a common goal
and in unity.
And together with this
a community
style
a community that is poor,
hospitable
within which one can experience
the possibility of diversity.
On the one hand we live in a community that is attached to the parish
We are very close to the apostolic institutions.
But being close to the places
does not necessarily make our community
a spiritual space.
It is not structured very well
so it is more often a dormitory, a place to carry out
the bare necessities. If we could move
as a community to the Villa Ara building, for example
one could create a place with a greater spiritual atmosphere
be open more to
young people for spiritual accompaniment
and the spiritual exercises but that would mean starting another project.
This year in Padua we made a proposal
after working together for one and a half years
with the diocese: a course of spiritual exercises
in ordinary life for the priests of the diocese.
We are four Jesuits available
for this work:
one Jesuit organizes the meetings
two a month. Then
the priests have their daily prayer
commitment and then their colloquy with us.
So this is
a beautiful example, in my opinion,
of a
concrete collaboration where
value is given to what one can do.
But there is another level which is that
of appreciation, of mutual benevolence.
If I say that I cannot attend a meeting
or do something because I have to accompany a person to an oncological visit,
I am not failing in my apostolic commitment.
I'm witnessing in another way.
I believe
first of all
in the creation of that environment where we can
not only work together but be together.
To grow in our friendship with the Lord
which is a very important aspect for us Jesuits
to be friends in the Lord. I believe that the first thing
to build this type of community
is to build true, solid, profound friendships
where one is not only a collaborator, but a friend, a brother
a sister
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