1987 -- No. 5 -- Spiritans Today -- Spiritan Community -- CONTENTS -- Foreword: An Issue on our Spiritan Community — Spiritan Research and Animation Center -- (pg 7) -- Preface : Rev. Fr Pierre Haas, Superior General -- (pg 9) -- A SURVEY OF COMMUNITY LIFE IN THE CONGREGATION -- I - The nature of the survey -- (pg 11) -- II - Some comments on the survey -- (pg 11) -- III - Variety of Community Life-Styles: some examples -- (pg 14) -- COMMUNITY IN THE SPIRITAN TRADITION -- I - Claude Francois Poullart des Places -- (pg 21) -- II - Francis Libermann -- (pg 21) -- III - Chapter Documents and New Rule of Life -- (pg 30) -- COMMUNITY IN THE HUMAN SCIENCES -- I - Community and Anthropology -- (pg 37) -- II - Community and Psychology -- (pg 39) -- III - Community and Sociology -- (pg 42) -- COMMUNITY IN THE THEOLOGY OF VATICAN II -- I - Church — Communion -- (pg 45) -- II - Religious life and Religious Community -- (pg 48) -- III - Community and Mission -- (pg 50) -- GUIDELINES FOR COMMUNITY RENEWAL -- Maxims and Questions -- (pg 55) -- INSTRUMENTS FOR COMMUNITY RENEWAL -- I. In View of the Apostolate -- (pg 61) -- 1. " Planning the Apostolate " community Retreat -- (pg 61) -- 2. Reading "the Signs of the Times" -- (pg 63) -- 3. A Method of Planning and Programming -- (pg 66) -- II. Instruments for Communication -- (pg 69) -- 4. The Means of Information -- (pg 69) -- 5. The Networks of Communication -- (pg 71) -- III. Assessment of Participation, Listening and Re-acting in Community -- (pg 73) -- 6. The responsibility of Members in the life of their Community -- (pg 74) -- 7. Learning to listen -- (pg 75) -- 8. Assessment of the attitudes of the Members of the Community -- (pg 77) -- IV. Discernment -- (pg 78) -- 9. Community Discernment -- (pg 78) -- 10. A review of Community life -- (pg 81) -- 11. The morale of a Community -- (pg 84) -- 12. The Health and Sickness of a Community -- (pg 86) -- V. The Religious Dimension -- (pg 87) -- 13. Sharing the Word of God -- (pg 87) -- 14. Sharing lived experience -- (pg 90) -- 15. "Dialogue, the way to communion" — A community retreat -- (pg 92) -- 16. A community celebration of Reconciliation -- (pg 94) -- VI. The Regional Community -- (pg 95) -- 17. Concrete conditions for the Existence and Life of a Regional Community -- (pg 95) -- VII. The Community Project -- (pg 97) -- 18. A Community Project Grid -- (pg 97) -- Conclusion. — Our Spiritan Apostolic Community -- (pg 101)