COMMUNITY

"It has pleased God...to make all holy and save them not merely as individuals without mutual bonds, but by making them into a single people, a people which acknowledges Him in truth and serves Him in holiness." -from the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Vatican II

We are called to be a community of faith, the people of God.  It is through one another and through participation in the community of Christ that we grow, receive support and forgiveness, and bring Christ to the world.

While the Church is an institution and an organization, it is first and foremost people who recognize that they are called by God and gifted for the mission of bringing Christ to each other.  We acknowledge our human imperfections, but we believe that united together in one body we are empowered by the Spirit to reach out to others.  We are made strong through the strength of Christ.

In community we can strive to be for the world what the Spirit is to the body.  We can more readily communicate the Good News of Jesus Christ to each other and to the world.

Through Jesus we have been made members of the family of God, joined to Christ and to one another in a union which is far closer than any union on earth.  In communion with each other we approach that idea voiced by Jesus "...that all may be one, even as you, Father, are in me, and I in You; I pray that they may be one in us" (John 12:21).