RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY AS COMMUNION OF COMMON LIFE IN THE LIGHT OF CCEO CULTURE

Abstract

Dr. Sr. Siby CMC, deals with the 1) Nature of Communion, 2) Communion and CommonLife in the Religious Community (Monasteries, orders, Congregations and other forms of Consecrated Life) 3) The Juridical Conditions Essentialfor Religious Communities (Provinces, Houses, Superiors, Synaxes, and Councils, Rightful admission, observance ofStatutes, Role and Responsibilities of superiors, Stability Cused by the Public Profession of Vows (Obedience, Chastity, Poverty) and 4) Stable Manner of Common Life and Sources and Manifestations of Communion. The key to her article could be found in her concluding statement: “Itis a factthatnobody can ‘kill’ usfromoutside; we, the individual and community, die fromwithin, in theabsence of communion.”