Christian Life Communities for Jesuit University Students?

One of the phenomena of the last twenty-five years has been the emergence of small Christian communities. The communidades de base or basic Christian communities (BCCs) of Latin America were perhaps the first expression of this impulse. Gathering neighbors regularly for prayer and reflection on the Bible, fellowship, and social outreach, the BCCs played an important role in the re-evangelization of Christians in Latin America. In the 1970s and 1980s they were hailed as a new way of "being church." A similar movement in the United States saw parishioners gathering into small faith-sharing communities, many of them influenced by the RENEW movement. Some like Arthur Baranowski, a priest of the Archdiocese of Detroit, saw small communities as a way of restructuring parishes.