Monday, 31 October 2011 10:06
Written by Winfried Baetz-Braunias
At the EoC School in Viena, the strength of experiences is combined with enthusiasm and creativity of the young people.
by Winfried Baetz-Braunias
“Live your questions and let the answers grow within you.” This quote from Rainer Maria Rilke opened the third Economy of Communion School of Northern Europe at the Mariapolis Center “Am Spiegeln” in Vienna last October 21st. The 110 participants represented Belgium, Luxemburg, France, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, as well as several Eastern European countries (Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia), including many young people.
A possible alternative for the economy today is the Economy of Communion. This is the central point in this school, which is closer to the initial idea of Chiara Lubich in 1991: development between profit-oriented capitalism and communism that despises man, an alternative way around the economic core values of “gratuitousness,” “communion,” and “fraternity.”