TY - BOOK AU - Balgoa, Nelia. TI - Touching lives: tales of struggle, hopes of life, challenges of faith : towards a spirituality of laypeople involved in Church renewal and social transformation endeavors in the Philippines SN - 9719346159 AV - BX 1920 .T68 2008 PY - 2008///.] CY - Quezon City PB - Institute of Spirituality of Asia KW - Laity KW - Philippines KW - Lay ministry KW - Spirituality N2 - We need to have a true 'spiritual revolution.' This spirituality both allows us to share and is found through sharing in the sufferings, fears and insecurities of other individual and groups (compassion), and also in their hopes, struggles and joys (solidarity). Without this encounter with persons who are suffering, without the encounters found in compassion and in struggles together, there can be no encounter with oneself or with the Spirit who breathes over us, and without these encounters there can be no reconciliation ER -