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Community of Jesus, but left as a young adult. In the last years of his life, he described himself as “a survivor of a toxic, abusive family system” and spoke jokingly of liberating people at the Community. Before his death through
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Community of Jesus can be traced back to the first meeting of two Episcopal laywomen, Cay Andersen and Judy Sorensen, who met in 1958 at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Orleans. The two women began a ministry of prayer and
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Elements
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took its present shape in 2008 after final adoption by a vote of the
Chapter (which is composed of the solemnly professed members). Its content is drawn from and inspired by Scripture, church tradition, the
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Bethany Convent. Altogether, the Community of Jesus consists of almost 275 people, from many walks of life and various church backgrounds—including
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in 2024, he wrote in his will that if his friends held a funeral, he did not “wish for any members of the Community of Jesus to be present. They are in love with the system that I am trying to burn.”
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abuse perpetrated on students’ bodies and minds in the name of the (Community of Jesus) values of submission and obedience was class-wide and decades-wide.”
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