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Towards a church without a home ...

Missio-SCO Group continues its reading of the book of Alain Roy "A Church homeless. A revival in the vocabulary may help us understand that we live in a watershed Church Passage the practitioner to church pilgrim road, parishes and / or communities; courses and / or courses; ministers and / or secular, individuals and / or groups, etc..

Monique (Japan), Denise (Malawi-Zambia)

L The author adds other phenomena that appear to presage a new figure of the Church and he says: a majority of women, better educated laity in pastoral theology, etc.. And he reflects on how Christians are networking, "the parishes and communities," he considers the two lungs of the Church.

Theresa (Brazil), Lucia (Haiti), Denise (Haiti)

Aline (Brazil)

Some questions: - how to explain the alleged "dropping" of men? ... The women take too much space? ... The author speaks of a church "mothering" ... It is true that women are very active in maintaining their place of worship clean, tidy, beautiful, etc.. They are certainly not the place of men to serve in various ministries in the church!

Eveline (Brazil), Danielle (Haiti), Raymonde (Malawi-Zambia),

Lucille (Malawi-Zambia)

And the question of parishes and small communities: what role each can play? ... If one takes the time to read what the early church lived in fraternity, celebrations, sharing, mutual support, he is sure that the small community can be a place that strongly recalls the presence of Jesus and help s 'watering more intensely in the Word. By cons, life is good for large gatherings from time to time. Who then will re-unite all the small groups?


Even our beliefs have become mobile ... After death, the journey of life does not stop ... Will we enter the "dynamism of the resurrection and the thirst an eternal life in perpetual motion creator of Trinitarian love?