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S⁰MEONE  \nAND MAKE BITS 0F FRESHBREADF0R HK  \nEREIN TH OVEN OF MYHEART !Casa lallojpo  \n# SISTERS TODAY\n\nTO EXPLORE THE ROLE OF THE RELIGIOUS WOMANIN THE CHURCH IN OUR TIME  \nDECEMBER 1971 VOLUME 43NUMBER 4  \nWill the Real Community Please Come Forward?175Joseph J.Reidy,M.D.  \nPoems 191,236,242  \nEssential Factors in Creating Community 192Francis X.Sheehan  \nSmall Group Living in a Motherhouse 199Sister Marie Raymond Brown,R.S.M.  \nSmall Group Living for Contemplatives 204Sister Margaret Rowe  \nCreative Large Group Living 213Sister Carolyn Capuano,H.M.  \nA Community of Pentecostals 215Daniel Danielson  \nThe Corporate Enterprise of Creation 225Herbert F.Smith,S.].  \nBulletin Board 230  \nAnnouncements 233  \nLetters to the Editor 237Book Reviews 243Record Notices 253  \nPublished monthly except July and September by monks of Saint John's Abbey,Collegeville,Minnesota.Editor:Father Daniel Durken,O.S.B.Associate Editorand Book Review Editor:Father Roger Kasprick,O.S.B.Cover_Design:SisterMary Charles McGough,O.S.B.,College of Saint Scholastica,Duluth,Minne-sota.Indexed in the Catholic Periodical Index.  \nAddress all correspondence to Sisters Today,Saint John's Abbey,Collegeville,Minnesota,56321.(Checks payable to Sisters Today.)All manuscripts shouldbe accompanied by a self-addressed envelope and postage.  \n1 year $4.00;2 years $7.00;single copy 50 cents.Foreign subscriptions(out-side U.S.A.):1 year $4.50;2 years $8.00.All subscriptions are payable inUnited States currency or check or International Money Order.Please allowsix weeks to two months for the filling of a subscription.  \nPrinted by Sentinel Publishing Company,Hiway 10 South,Sauk Rapids,Minnesota.(Do not send mail to this address.)Second Class postage paid atSaint Cloud,Minnesota.  \n# Will the Real CommunityPlease Come Forward?\n\nJOSEPH J.REIDY,M.D.  \n\"I hope to learn something about how real community comes about andhow to make it happen.\"A Sister who attended a Sister FormationWorkshop last summer wrote this.For her the workshop would be asuccess if she could learn what a real community is,and if she couldlearn how to make it happen.She was not an exception;this was mythird year at the workshops and in all of them the Sisters had the samerequest.There was an urgency about it;it was a most serious concernin their own personal lives,and also because they were superiors anddirectors of training they had to tell others about a real communityand guide them in creating it.  \nSo many things had changed in the lives of the religious in the pastten years,and still the Sisters came to the workshops with the sameproblems I had heard in the 1950's.They felt insecure,panicky,dis-couraged,doubtful,isolated.They did not know what to do with theirangry feelings or with the hostile feelings of others,or what to thinkabout jealousy and competition.They felt unable to be close to others;or they worried when they recognized their wishes for very close rela-tionships.Many felt guilty if they were not doing something \"relevant.\"Not all of the Sisters had these problems;there were many happySisters.There were also many happy Sisters before the 1950's.  \nThe changes had not solved the problems,and in some cases hadadded problems.This discouraged many who had tried so hard,and itleft others apathetic,even cynical.After some of our great nationalcrises,for example,the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy andMartin Luther King,many people hoped that things would change.Theywere disappointed that there was no permanent change in our nation,and that even the outward appearance of change did not last.Somethings seemed worse;the divisions among our people were greater.  \nThis is the way it has been with religious life.First was the romantic,exciting side of the renewal,the meetings,headlines,and hopes.Thendisputes,angry divisions,disappointment,and discouragement.The Sis-ters used to 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