Religious Community – From Divine Self-Gift to Communities of True Friends

Defining a religious community in terms of this eternal divine self-gift and vision. Dr. Antony Mookenthottam MSFS, a reputed indologist, spiritual writer and an authority on St. Francis de Sales, highlights in a simple style, but with remarkable deftness, the salient features of a religious community. Rightly understood and lived, a religious community should be able to mould a single movement towards “the other” out of the many natural human tendencies to “ones-own-self”. Only then the many individual selves can make a community of true friends.