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SPRED
Special Religious Development
Archdiocese of Chicago
2956 S. Lowe Ave. Chicago, IL 60616
312-842-1039 fax 312-366-2907

Environment
In a Spred Newsletter, 1986, Sr. Mary Therese writes, "Ecclesial space used by Spred groups becomes a way, a threshold to the church for the group. The group does not put high priority on books, obviously, but puts a high priority on the space. The space is the educational environment. The space becomes a kind of chrysalis of the sacred, where the members are initiated into a way of relating, a demeanor, a comportment, a way of being that will help them to pass from being on the "outside" of the sacred to being on the "inside", from being a stranger to being a member."
















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