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Brotherhood and Community
Chapter I
The Human Community

Just in the human community though we are many we also work at the same purpose in a community, to be in a mutual service and dialogue and for the upbringing of a good and just society sharing and incorporating to them the blessing we have received according to God’s plan and initiative.
As what St. Paul said in one of his writing that though we belong to one body and all of us have a different role that played on that one body. Many parts though they are but they all worked for the betterment of the body as a whole. Every part of that human body plays a very important role even how big or small they are they contribute well so that each may work according to what they are meant to be. As lesser brothers in our fraternity we too share and give according to the gifts that we have. So that amidst our diversity and uniqueness we create and we showed to people a different taste and different ways of community living not based on human standards but by God’s own purpose.
The Church as the community of all believers favors institutes whose members renew fraternal harmony in a sharing of life and charity. Since we are called to that same mission of Christ, called to proclaim and bring forth the message of God’s love through our deeds and actions. So we are being sent to reform peoples in a newness of life.
As we participate in that mission, let us live in the midst of the world as a Gospel leaven so that the people, seeing our way of fraternal life centered in the spirit of the beatitudes, may realize that the kingdom of God has already began in their midst.
As what we are practicing and trying to live upon in our day to day living. Through our gospel way of living and gospel witnessing as brothers in the community we may be an inspiration and a living image of Christ’s true presence in our actions.

a. Elements of Human Community

a-1 – Person

If we speak about human person we really define and put at it in general basis as

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