“Community is the place where our limitations, our fears and our egotism are revealed to us”

Community is the place where our limitations, our fears and our egotism are revealed to us. We discover our poverty and our weaknesses, our inability to get on with some people, our mental and emotional blocks, our affective and sexual disturbances, our seemingly insatiable desires, our frustrations and jealousies, our hatred and our wish to destroy. While we are alone, we could believe we loved everyone. Now that we are with others, living with them all the time, we realize how incapable we are of loving, how much we deny to others, how closed in on ourselves we are. (Jean Vanier, Community and Growth, Paulist Press; 2nd Revised edition, 1989, p.26)

 Cursillo Movement’s logo, Diocese of Lincoln, NE