Community Life A Tool for Personal Growth as Lived by Carmelite Missionaries in Kenya
| dc.contributor.author | Kibagendi, Jackline Moraa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-11T07:41:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-12-11T07:41:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Community living is a tool for personal growth, as living together has a great impact on our growth as it helps us to discover more about our weakness and strength. Interacting and sharing life in common we discover ourselves more than when we are alone. Fr. Francisco Palau the founder of Carmelite Missionaries wrote in letter 7 to the sisters in Lerida and Aytona that, how he wish that all of us be of one heart animated by one and same spirit. The ideal fraternity for Fr. Francisco Palau is to form “uniones de fraternidad” (which means unity in fraternity) whose base should be the spiritual strength that everyone offers. In the community we are able to give up our likes and dislikes for the sake of others. It is through living together that I am able to transcend and go beyond myself. Living together we become women of the spirit capable of letting ourselves be lead and then guide others with genuine love, where we desire the good of others rather than our own, we become all to all by taking care of each sister as ourselves and each day we try to overcome our limitations with maturity for the good of the fraternity and letting ourselves be helped. Palau cherished community life since living in communion with each other we become the keeper of each other. The work of formation primarily is as an inner journey towards transformation and conversion that becomes the basis of the free choice to follow Jesus in religious life. Formation is both a divine as well as a human process since the one calling the individual is God; it is also human because it is lived within the limits of a human experience both by the individual and the congregation which one enters. This means that the person has to constantly be attuned to God, the initiator of the call. Community living is a tool for personal growth, as living together has a great impact on our growth as it helps us to discover more about our weakness and strength. Interacting and sharing life in common we discover ourselves more than when we are alone. Fr. Francisco Palau the founder of Carmelite Missionaries wrote in letter 7 to the sisters in Lerida and Aytona that, how he wish that all of us be of one heart animated by one and same spirit. The ideal fraternity for Fr. Francisco Palau is to form “uniones de fraternidad” (which means unity in fraternity) whose base should be the spiritual strength that everyone offers. In the community we are able to give up our likes and dislikes for the sake of others. It is through living together that I am able to transcend and go beyond myself. Living together we become women of the spirit capable of letting ourselves be lead and then guide others with genuine love, where we desire the good of others rather than our own, we become all to all by taking care of each sister as ourselves and each day we try to overcome our limitations with maturity for the good of the fraternity and letting ourselves be helped. Palau cherished community life since living in communion with each other we become the keeper of each other. The work of formation primarily is as an inner journey towards transformation and conversion that becomes the basis of the free choice to follow Jesus in religious life. Formation is both a divine as well as a human process since the one calling the individual is God; it is also human because it is lived within the limits of a human experience both by the individual and the congregation which one enters. This means that the person has to constantly be attuned to God, the initiator of the call. Community living is a tool for personal growth, as living together has a great impact on our growth as it helps us to discover more about our weakness and strength. Interacting and sharing life in common we discover ourselves more than when we are alone. Fr. Francisco Palau the founder of Carmelite Missionaries wrote in letter 7 to the sisters in Lerida and Aytona that, how he wish that all of us be of one heart animated by one and same spirit. The ideal fraternity for Fr. Francisco Palau is to form “uniones de fraternidad” (which means unity in fraternity) whose base should be the spiritual strength that everyone offers. In the community we are able to give up our likes and dislikes for the sake of others. It is through living together that I am able to transcend and go beyond myself. Living together we become women of the spirit capable of letting ourselves be lead and then guide others with genuine love, where we desire the good of others rather than our own, we become all to all by taking care of each sister as ourselves and each day we try to overcome our limitations with maturity for the good of the fraternity and letting ourselves be helped. Palau cherished community life since living in communion with each other we become the keeper of each other. The work of formation primarily is as an inner journey towards transformation and conversion that becomes the basis of the free choice to follow Jesus in religious life. Formation is both a divine as well as a human process since the one calling the individual is God; it is also human because it is lived within the limits of a human experience both by the individual and the congregation which one enters. This means that the person has to constantly be attuned to God, the initiator of the call. The primary objective of formation is to prepare people for total consecration of themselves to God in the following of Christ at the service of the Church’s mission. Formation is a process that begins with desire to become a religious and ends with death; commitment to formation does not end. Formation has to prepare the formees to be effective in the Church so all through our lives we are undergoing formation nobody is fully grown. We continue to learn and grow daily so community life facilitates all this process towards personal growth. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12342/1098 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Tangaza University College | en_US |
| dc.subject | Personal Growth | en_US |
| dc.subject | Community Life | en_US |
| dc.title | Community Life A Tool for Personal Growth as Lived by Carmelite Missionaries in Kenya | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |