Bring It On

Fr. Cardijn wanted to bring Christianity to young workers where they lived and worked.  He was about forming small Christian communities of young workers, a ministry of the young, for the young in the workaday world.  Note how this is different from trying to get people to go to church or about individual salvation.  Christianity was never founded upon individual salvation.  It was always about community.  We are a people of God.  We are "Church," a people.  It comes from our Jewish roots where they saw themselves as God's chosen people.  Fr. Cardijn did not believe in "talking at people."  It was a gradual formation in like-to-like settings.  He felt that his influence and wisdom would come out in dialogue.  More on individual salvation tomorrow.