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Fr. Ron Rolheiser describes a “utopian” community of believers for “mature Christians”:
"…We need that today. Someone needs to found a religious community with no rules because, for its members, none would be needed. Everyone would be mature enough to live out a poverty, chastity and obedience that does not need to be externally prescribed and over-protected by symbols that set it apart. Attitudes and behavior would be shaped from inside and would emanate from a commitment to a community, a vision and a God that puts one under an obedience that is more demanding than any outside rule.
The community would be mixed, men and women together, but strong enough to affectively love each other, remain chaste and model friendship and family beyond sex and without denigrating sex. The community would be radically immersed in the world. Its members, sustained by prayer and community, would be free, like Jesus, of curfews and laws, to dine with everyone, saints and sinners alike, without sinning themselves. This community would give itself to the world, even as it resisted being of the world…"
the-tidings.com/2005/0610/rolheiser.htm
"…We need that today. Someone needs to found a religious community with no rules because, for its members, none would be needed. Everyone would be mature enough to live out a poverty, chastity and obedience that does not need to be externally prescribed and over-protected by symbols that set it apart. Attitudes and behavior would be shaped from inside and would emanate from a commitment to a community, a vision and a God that puts one under an obedience that is more demanding than any outside rule.
The community would be mixed, men and women together, but strong enough to affectively love each other, remain chaste and model friendship and family beyond sex and without denigrating sex. The community would be radically immersed in the world. Its members, sustained by prayer and community, would be free, like Jesus, of curfews and laws, to dine with everyone, saints and sinners alike, without sinning themselves. This community would give itself to the world, even as it resisted being of the world…"
the-tidings.com/2005/0610/rolheiser.htm