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Step back
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name, and they’re always glad you came. You want
to go where you can see that troubles are all the same. You want to go where everybody knows your name.
Cheers
Slow down
Some people got so much heaven on their minds, they ain’t no earthly good.
Mahalia Jackson
Notice your life
Small Christian Communities help us help each other to connect everyday life and faith.
Step Back
We live such hectic, busy lives, there is often so little time to notice what is happening to us. Gathering
together regularly with a few fellow parishioners in a small Christian community offers people a chance to slow down, to be a bit more reflective about life, to sift and sort the things that count. Over
time the small church community becomes a place where members ask: How might God be acting in this crazy mixed-up life I’m living, even if I don’t pay much attention to God’s presence
on a day to day basis?
slow down
A small Christian community is a group of 8-12 adults, or families, who come together, usually in each
other’s homes, weekly or every other week to share something of their stories with one another and to share God’s store (i.e., the Sunday scriptures). Noticing one’s story and the story
of God, listening appreciatively to the story of another, people help each other to make connections between everyday life and faith.
Notice your life
Small Christian communities are not just about meeting individual needs, they are also about building up
the parish community and strengthening the life and mission of the parish. The key to building a parish that makes a difference in the world around it is to build a parish where people regularly make a
difference in each others’ lives and faith. Small Christian communities make a difference in the lives of those who participate in them and in the parish that develops them.
For more information, or to join a small Christian community, please contact the Webservant Bob Payette.
Mary Ann and Bob O’Neil
Taken from: Pastoral Department for Small Christian Communities, 467 Boomfield Avenue, Bloomfield,
Connecticut
06002 860-243-9642
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