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Spiritual Accompaniment in Movements and New Communities: Aiding Human and Supernatural Growth.

Spiritual Accompaniment in Movements and New Communities. Aiding Human and Supernatural Growth

Prologue by His Eminence, Kevin Cardinal Farrell. Edited by Louis Navarro, Elisa Lisiero, Santiago Vigo, and Francisco Insa. 

Proceeding from the first study week on movements and new communities hosted by Santa Croce 

Introduction 

The Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome held a study week on Spiritual company specifically related to new church groups. During the study week 300 people representing 40 different ecclesial bodies gathered to share and to reflect upon the relationships that take place within spiritual accompaniment. Here we see the role of a spiritual father or mother or older, brother or sister, supports one in their faith journey and their identification with Christ. There was a growing need for good accompaniment in addition to the need for adequate training. This volume is a collection of the week’s proceedings. Cardinal Ferraro summarizes Pope Francis on the topic of spiritual accompaniment and offers a few guidelines for this practice within these new movements and communities.

Sectional topics addressed by the presenters include:

• Spiritual Accompaniment: A Mature Person's Path of Formation

• The Role of the Spiritual Guide

• Similarities and Differences Between Spiritual Accompaniment and Psychology

• The Persons Tasked with Offering Spiritual Accompaniment in Movements and New Communities

• The Difference Between Governance and Spiritual Accompaniment

• Abuse of Poer, Abuse of Conscience, and Spiritual Abuse

• Accompanying People Wounded by Abuse

• Forming Evangelizers: Man and Women of God

• Centrality of the Person: Respect for One's Human and Christian Dignity