Posted 261 days ago
New monasticism, also known as ordinary life in the neighbourhood
by Eliacín Rosario-Cruz
The following is the last paragraph in a response I wrote to an article about New Monasticism published in Geez Magazine.
Ultimately, the 12 marks are not the only expressions of neo-monasticism around. People like my parents and other sisters and brothers have been living kingdom-saturated lives for longer than the name new monasticism has been coined. We need to differentiate between a way of living and one expression of that way of living. The movement needs some time to grow, to allow what we know in our heads to move into our hearts and become who we are. The 12 marks can serve as points of inspiration, but not as the definition of neo-monasticism, or as a litmus test of what “serving the other” is. As always, the kingdom is much bigger than this new expression of faith and praxis.
via geezmagazine.org
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