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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE NECESSITY \nOF COMMUNITY \nFrom an address by St Oscar Romero6 \n◊◊◊ \nA Christian must be concerned to form community and see that the \ncommunity keeps growing in depth of faith and missionary extension. \nChristians must be dissatisfied as long as they see so many baptized persons \nwho have not perceived the richness of their baptism. What the apostles used to \ndo was to take that treasure and make it greater by forming communities and \ncommunity life. \nThis community sense is something we urgently need today… At times \nthere is confusion between the Christian community and the political group. \nSome are unable to tell the difference because the members of a community \ndon’t deepen their faith… \nI say that often our people\, especially the young people\, have reached \npolitical maturity earlier than Christian maturity\, and they see life more in \npolitical terms\, as though the political dimension of life were the only one\, and \nthey have no time left for what is Christian. But it should be the other way \naround: what is Christian comes first\, and it is thence that each one should \ndiscover his or her proper place in the country\, in whatever vocation God gives \none. \nIf God gives a political vocation\, one should live it\, but as a Christian. That \nway we’ll have the sort of people needed nowadays\, people who will become \nmature in a Christian community\, will mature in the gospel\, in their faith\, in \ntheir commitment to Christ\, in their following of the Lord\, who will not let them \nbetray him in the laws or customs of the land\, that is\, in political life. And they \nwill then become the leaders of the transformations that the nation needs today \nmore than ever\, Christians thoroughly committed to Christ\, in a community \nthat is God’s people and\, as the Bible says\, is like a light on a mountaintop. \nToday\, with so much confusion\, so many groups\, so many claims\, the \nChristian community should consider itself a bright light\, providing light and \norientation to everything that happens around us. \n  \n6 from The Violence of Love\, translated by James R. Brockman\, S.J.\, San Francisco: Harper & Row\, 1988\, p. 208.13 \n 
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