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The Lord took note and listened.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMalachi 3:16\nThe service of faith calls us to help people become aware of their experience of God. Promoting the justice of God’s Kingdom in the service of faith, calls us, among other things, to help communities become aware of their communal immediate experience of God. The Kingdom will be a communal reality, a shared joy. Communal apostolic discernment, which the Jesuit Province of English Canada has been instrumental in refining, promises to be a new apostolic approach to Jesuit mission, one that can help integrate the various dimensions of mission in a unified spiritual practice.\nWhat is communal apostolic discernment? What distinguishes communal discernment from personal discernment is the role of conversation and social interaction in the former. Both forms of discernment use the felt movements of consolation and desolation to discern the presence, activity, care and will of God. Personal discernment looks within to personal interiority for these movements. While communal discernment presupposes personal prayer and discernment, it also looks without to seek the movements of consolation and desolation in the interactions within a group, and in the qualities of these interactions.  Thus a group’s conversation is a basic part of the matter for discernment. A meeting can be contemplative experience! The life of the Risen Christ produces not only redeemed individuals but it also generates the Church. Together we know more about God and God’s work in the world than we do by ourselves.\nWhat can be discovered through communal apostolic discernment? The communal dimension seems to bring a new form of consolation. In the 35th General Congregation, which met in early 2008, many delegates talked about the election of the new General as a powerful and even surprising experience of communal apostolic discernment. It left many with the conviction that the Spirit of the Risen Christ had been very present and active among them in the process. Those who have successful experiences of communal discernment tend to report three kinds of things, in addition to finding the will of God for the group. First of all, they report an experience of communal intimacy that is also a shared felt knowledge of the presence and action of Spirit of Christ among them and in the world. This intimacy is apostolic, for through sharing felt knowledge of God as discerned in ministry and life, the activity of God in our midst and in the world is discerned, as well as the invitation to participate in that divine activity in particular ways. Thus, the union of minds and hearts is apostolic, as the 35th General Congregation suggests when it says that community is the connection between identity and mission. The second thing that can be discovered through communal apostolic discernment is the paschal mystery at work in the world. When the Spiritual Exercises are used in a communal way, then one discovers that the paschal dynamic of Christ’s life is also at work in the life of a group; one discovers where the group is within that dynamic of life, death, new life, as well as the quality of the group’s participation in Christ’s paschal activity in the world. Thirdly, some feel that communal discernment helps to integrate the service of faith and the promotion of justice by introducing a social dimension to our practice of faith. The attention to and reverence for the individual person as subject, which is a key component of communal apostolic discernment, serves faith for faith grows in the context of the human subject, in the context of meanings and values. It also promotes justice, for reverence for the person in her or his unique subjectivity is a foundation of justice.\nThis Toolkit. For these reasons, the Provincial encourages the communities and ministries of the Province to incorporate communal apostolic discernme","cbCaih6Yf7YznRcp","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaih6Yf7YznRcp","doc",221696,69,"English","# Communal Apostolic Discernment - A Toolkit - Come and See!\n## Basic Tools\n## Extra Tools\n## Supplementary Comments\n## Evaluation and Bibliography","[{\"question\":\"What distinguishes communal apostolic discernment from personal discernment?\",\"answer\":\"Communal discernment relies on conversation and social interaction to locate consolation and desolation within group life. 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