Rectors formation|Community day

Batulao 2004, Aug COMMUNITY DAY


Situation:

  • COMMUNITY DAY – 21 of 57 rectors are conducting regularly

  • Not only one more meeting!?

Sharing:

  • FIS – Lawaan: 4 sectors/9 SDB (Monday evening community day – weekly)

  • Sharing on different levels: family; vocation story, growth,

  • Content: Eucharist and sharing

  • FIN: parish, once a month outing for meal; not all are present


GC25: the KEY WORD is RENEWAL – the main theme for the community day

GC23: for educating young people to the faith we need to be evangelized first (renewal in the Holy Spirit as a community)


ONLY THROUGH SHARING THE COMMUNITY RENEWAL IS POSSIBLE

(GC25: by sharing we are renewed)

  • WHY? – motivation, a little deeper level

  • Experience of the Church: BEC, ACS (life and faith sharing, Gospel sharing; what happened at the deeper level)

  • Starting to verbalize, sharing the richness of own life, faith, feeling makes grow the other confreres

  • Beautiful and less beautiful helps me to grow (challenge for correction, conversion, better)

  • TOPIC? Any topic is OK; no topic is OK

  • feeling about the work

  • personal vocational story

  • joy and sadness

  • involvement in the

  • prayer life

  • model of next Sunday Gospel sharing: prayerful environment first!


MATTER OF TRUST, CONFIDENCE, ENVIRONMENT of the community

  • to build up the mutual trust, confidence

  • to recover the trust is almost impossible (EAO cultures)

  • “skills” of confidentiality; to disclose ourselves can hurt us, danger to be disclose outside of the community


EFFECTIVE SHARING - MATTER OF FEELINGS

  • when woman gather together it's a healing: men – starting who is bigger, makes ourselves vulnerable (starting from the Rector)

  • the only way is on the level of feelings (I feel: not We, not US), not threatening way

  • positive way of sharing (no discussion, no preaching)

  • prayerful atmoshphere

  • EAO cultures: indirect way of communications, easy to hurt - that means the impossibility

  • Need to go deeply after certain time of sharing (how? Novitiate – once a month, on 31st of the month) GNT of Lawaan


DIFFICULTY TO SHARE – CULTURAL BACKGROUND

  • sharing about silence

  • expectation to start: from the leader (rector)

  • avoiding the straight forward style of communication; ex of Japan – talking about the opposite, mirroring my heart

  • example of the BEC, Charismatic groups, NT experience – Acts of the Apostles

  • facilitation: adoration, Eucharist, prayer environment is helpful – if possible different strategy, formula