TY - JOUR AU - Johnston, Laurie PY - 2010/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - THE COMMUNITY OF SANT’EGIDIO JF - Asian Horizons JA - AH VL - 4 IS - 02 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://dvkjournals.in/index.php/ah/article/view/2669 SP - 270-276 AB - <p>On the 10th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, the great<br>theologian Yves Congar described his vision of the future of the<br>Church:<br>… the future of the Church, in my view, rests greatly on the existence<br>of spiritual communities animated by a great devotion to the Gospel<br>and to evangelical practice, to the practice of love and charity with the<br>greatest liberty and “sympathetic” openness to what is happening in<br>the world. This is the future of the Church. A future which every<br>community realizes, on its part, and therefore in a partial way,<br>certainly: we are all parts, no one in the Church is everything. But the<br>fact that these communities exist and that they are made up of people<br>who are not out of the world, but live within the current of life, seems<br>to me a quite important fact for the future of the Church.1<br>Congar felt strongly that communities in the world, “in the current of<br>life,” were a vital way for the Church to live out the call of the<br>Council to be in solidarity with the world. One of the communities<br>which he believed was responding to this call was the young lay<br>Community of Sant’Egidio. In fact, it was for Sant’Egidio’s magazine<br>“La Nostra Assemblea” that Congar wrote the article which I have<br>quoted above.</p> ER -