The value of community life

all human beings should live included in the communitybe a family guild, Christian community, neighborhood, politics, because we are social beings. We were born for coexistence, dialogue, brotherhood, love.

We were not born to be alone, not to communicate with anyone. Badly handled loneliness leads to dementia, depression, human impoverishment. We need to communicate, listen, be heard. We were born for communication and togetherness. God gave us the power to speak, yes to convey knowledge, emotions, feelings. We are gifted to live communicating with beings of all walks of life. types and places. And especially with beings equal to us, humans.

We can communicate with animals and the rest of nature in different ways. Growing roses in the garden with commitment and care is a way of communication. Having a pet, or keeping a lagoon with fish for consumption and breeding them, or taking care of a forest to prevent it from being cleared, are ways of communication. When we think of a sunset, we communicate with that scene. where nature offers us a play of colors in harmony with the freshness of the evening and we interact with the multitude of sensations that creation offers us. There is communication, there is deep dialogue, not necessarily verbalbut yes emotional, vital.

So there are various of them forms of communication, all enriching. Man is essentially a communicative being, dialogic, and gets frustrated when he does not find a way to interact with others, or with creation. And above all when he does not find a way to communicate with the transcendent, with God, with the divine.

That is why there are so many sad, depressed people who feel like failures, even though they have many possessions, because they do not communicate with anyone, and even worse, when there is no dialogue with the Lord. When there are no divine experiences, when there is loneliness in the soul, when there is a great emptiness of God, then there comes a terrible dryness, a thirst for God, and since it is not satisfied, clay idols come to supply and harm the human being. Drugs, alcoholism, pleasure without morality, money, famethose false gods who want to pretend to be Gods ultimately destroy the human being.

Therefore, it is ideal to gather in a Christian community, parish, or movements, associations, apostolates, foundations, where the Spirit sends you, where Christ is. And to live the presence of the Lord together with the sacraments. logically family It is an ideal place to live loving God and brothers. But the Christian community has other fundamental church ingredients needed for yours Christian fullness.