Be spiritual in order to be church

 

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The great increase in men’s autonomy, due to the advent of new technologies, requires all traditional social structures to integrate themselves. None of the contemporary social structures can do that.
In the meanwhile, every individual, with the enormous amount of information he receives and shares, represents a variety of personal relationships, and he becomes another, new man who identifies himself with a network individualism, which doesn’t present any of the features of isolation, even though the correct meaning of the word could lead one to interpret it that way.
Instead, network individualism is based on an intense and continuous relationship, despite time and space.
Furthermore, if the future of society, as we think, will be based on man’s creativity principle, men will have to take into great consideration the correct and dignifying emancipation of his own vocation/predisposition.
A new autonomy for men, network individualism, emancipation of one’s own vocation/predisposition are the three key elements that require the new man a high increase in spiritual activity.

This is confirmed by numerous scientific studies performed and published in the main universities of the world: from Yale to Oxford, from Tuilberg to Harvard.
Even the high socio-economic growth in South Corea is due to an explosion of spiritual religiosity.
These considerations call for, on one hand, the search of a new integration ability by the masses, on the other hand the search for spiritual action.

If the new peoples will adfirmate themselves as the sum of all creative principles that come from the emancipation of one’s own vocation/predisposition, they will have an absolute need for a spiritual Church where all the minds of the faithful are possessed by the Logos and by Jesus. (Eusebius of Caisareia)

In a Church that is truly spiritual all earthly distinctions are annihilated, so much so that all those who elsewhere would have been disciples can be teachers there (Ambrogius)

A spiritual Church has an absolute goal: never to extinguish the Spirit poured by God on his people. (Lumen Gentium)

Joan the apostle is so sure of of the importance of the Spirit that he states that once you’ve received it you won’t need anybody to teach you, as long as you stick firmly to It.

Therefore, we have to take awareness of the fact that the spiritual Church must find the courage to integrate the masses, separating the Magisterium from its own jurisdiction. (Hermann Pottmeyer)

The church’s new aim is to become Glocal, very local, and to open its structures to non-believers, maintaining all the secular spiritual experiences, to which must be added a continuous and universal communion between all territorial and apostolic structures.
Legalising the right of all non-believers in the Church.

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