Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Arthur Naylor -- Introduction / Michael A. Hayes -- The role of the Ecclesial movements and the new communities in the life of the Church / Charles Whitehead -- 'A church that is and works to be a church for everyone, but particularly the poor'/ Mario Marazziti and Austen Ivereigh -- Consecrated families and the community of the Beatitudes / Francois-Xavier Wallays -- The life of the Church : The sacramental method of evangelization / Javier Prades Lopez -- The meaning of the organism of attachments for the Church's evangelization / Bryan Cunningham -- 'I will bless you, Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever' : The l'arche experience of evangelization / Christine McGrievy -- Christian initiation and the transmission of faith / Kiko Arguello -- The lay faithful and Christian life / Luis Fernando Figari -- Ecclesial movements and the Marian profile of the Church / Chiara Lubich -- Biblical references -- Index.