Volume I

Born of the Spirit:

Generative Communities

Genitae Spiritu communitates generant

editors

Daniel P. McCarthy osb – †James G. Leachman osb

Generative Communities: Project descriptor

            James G. Leachman – Daniel P. McCarthy

 

In memoriam: Abbot Owen John Purcell, osb

25 July 1931 – 8 November 2013

            Daniel P. McCarthy

 

Conversatio nostra est in coelis!

Owen Purcell, ed. Daniel P. McCarthy

 

Founding Inspiration

            Daniel P. McCarthy – James G. Leachman

1. Progress Assessment of the Collective Project: Generative Communities 1

            Daniel P. McCarthy – James G. Leachman

          I   The Project "Appreciating the Liturgy"

         II   The International, Ecumenical, Ongoing Conversation

        III   How the Project "Appreciating the Liturgy" evolved to produce the Atchison Conversations: Generative Communities

        IV   Generative Communities Colloquia:

              Atchison conversations: twin hills – holy twins

1. Born of the Spirit 2014
2. Nurturing a vocational way of living 2015
3. Roadmaps for critical junctures 2016
4. Framing a monastery's identity 2017
5. Nurturing Leaders 2018
6. Engendering Communication 2019
7. Freeing Memories: How to remember 2020
8. Invoking our Becoming: Maturing into a vision 2021
9. The Filling Full: Becoming Christians 2025 (projected)
10. Becoming Persons in Communion: Personal freedom for generative love 2026 (projected)

Liturgy

2. Begotten not Made

       Trinitarian model of generative community

            Daniel P. McCarthy – James G. Leachman

 

3. Practicing Liturgy and Generative Life in Common

       Here and now, personal and active

            Daniel P. McCarthy – James G. Leachman

 

4. The Parish as a Generative Community,

       Both of new members and as a way of life

            Paul Turner

 

5. The Parish as a Generative Community:

       Reflections of a country pastor

            Benjamin Tremmel

Monastic studies

6. Different Models of Monastic Liturgy

       and their Effect upon Worshippers

            Originally published in: Questions Liturgiques / Studies in Liturgy

            James G. Leachman

 

7. From Faith to Trust, or

       On Doing the Impossible

       Some thoughts on Conversatio morum

            Martin Shipperlee

 

8. Spiritual Maturation and the Challenges of Generativity Today

       Viewed through the eyes of a new formation director

            Marcia Ziska

 

9. Cave, Refectory, Road

       Personal and communal

            Daniel P. McCarthy

            in conversation with James G. Leachman

            as inspired by Bernd Leygraf – Jaap Westerbos

Human Sciences

10   Jeannine Guindon (1919 – 2002)

       Integral human formation and vocational identity

       Benedictine charism and monastic life as a collective project

            James G. Leachman – Daniel P. McCarthy

 

11. The Self, Community and God n

            Bede J. Healey

Stephen Behnke: Critical Synthesis                                                                              n

Bibliography

Indices

       compiled by Sixtus Roslevich

       Index of Biblical Sources                                                                                       n

       Index of Liturgical Documents                                                                              n

       Index of Early Christian Literature and Magisterial Documents                           n

       Index of Incipits of Prayer and Hymn Texts                                                          n

       Index of Personal Names                                                                                        n

Contributors                                                                                                                   n

Acknowledgements                                                                                                       n