One of the mysteries of this experience of Christian meditation is that meditation creates community. It strengthens and reveals our communion with each other as we live it day by day in parishes, in families, in daily life. Meditation creates community, and the world today needs this experience of communion, of unity. The world is so full of division, condemnation, fundamentalism, conflict. It’s essential that we recover this experience of com-munion and of the human community that we share with all people. And perhaps it’s a special calling of the Christian people to know that, through their life of discipleship, and to bear witness to it and to work for that communion and community among people of all cultures and all traditions. That’s why the Spirit is calling the church today to contemplation.
(Christian Life in the Light of Christian Meditation 1: Discipleship by Laurence Freeman OSB )
