Seek and You Will Find: Understanding a Trans- Parochial Charismatic Community
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Trans-parochial community, Charismatic community, Psychosocial and spiritual needs, Domains of parish lifeAbstract
This paper is a study on a trans-parochial community (TCC) in order to obtain an accurate and holistic picture of its practices and beliefs. It attempts to answer one main question: What is it doing and why? In light of the absence of scholarly research on the trans-parochial dimension of charismatic communities, it provides an insider’s perspective of how the inner domains of parish life are experienced and understood by the members of one highly popular local TCC. These domains are 1) community, 2) worship, 3) leadership, 4) formation, and 5) stewardship. Using ethnographically informed sources and methods to gather data, it is found that the TCC in this study embodies an alternative style of worship and programming: contextualized, experiential, multi-sensory, and participative. Inside an unconventional space, it allows members to experience the spiritual and psychosocial goods that they seek and desire. The parishes may hold this TCC as a mirror of what they want to achieve and what it can and must do to reinforce the quality of pastoral attention that their parishioners receive.
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