Members of faith communities often provide a sense of belonging to one another. In addition, they accept that they have responsibilities toward each other, their faith and themselves; you see the belovedness of other people in community and can call that beauty forth in ministry. A faith community is posed to a safe, caring environment where members or other persons served by the congregation can share their concerns. It's an incredible mystery of God's love that the more you know you are loved, the more you will see how deeply your sisters and your brothers in the human family are loved. The more you love others without conditions, the more you can love yourself the way God loves you and others. And the more you are loved by others, the more you realize how much you are the beloved of God. Finding your way home is learning how all love is connected, expressed, and lived out in community.

"Beloved, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love" (1 John 4:7-8). [109-125]

Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles.... He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over ... who had come to hear him and to be healed of their