The Emmanuel Community celebrates a jubilee year from 2011-2012. Here are some reasons to rejoice….
40 years since the Emmanuel Community started - 30 years of Consecrated Celibate Life in the Emmanuel Community
30 years since the foundation of FIDESCO,
an international relief Non-Governmental Organization that recruits,
trains, and sends volunteers for one or two years to the poorest of the
poor of the world. These volunteers make their professional skills
available through humanitarian and development projects. See http://www.fidesco-international.org
20 years since the death of our founder, the Servant of God, Pierre Goursat 20 years since the Emmanuel Community was first recognized as a Private Association of the Faithful by the Holy See. (On July 20 2009 the Emmanuel Community was recognized by the Holy See and a Public Association of the Faithful.)
Sessions and Retreats at Paray-le-Monial for 2012Come to Paray-le-Monial this summer for a Session or Retreat!
Pope Benedict XVI announces the Year of Faith, 11 October 2012 - 24 November 2013.The 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council falls on 11 October 2012, when the Year of Faith will begin. It ends on the Feast of Christ the King, 24 November 2013. One aim is for all Catholics "to rediscover the journey of faith so as to shed ever clearer light on the joy and renewed enthusiasm of the encounter with Christ", as expressed in the Apostolic Letter "Motu proprio data" Porta Fidei, http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/motu_proprio/documents/hf_ben-xvi_motu-proprio_20111011_porta-fidei_en.html
The Holy Spirit renews the Church
The Holy Spirit Renews the Church: Patti Mansfield writes about her experience of the Emmanuel Community.
Stations of the Cross live in St Peter's Square At the Triduum Retreat, organized by the Emmanuel School of Mission (ESM) in Rome, ESM students enacted the Stations of the Cross live in St Peter's Square on the morning of Good Friday. Watch them on the video, http://www.jubilezaveclemmanuel.com/2011/04/26/video-chemin-de-croix-a-rome-par-lesm/
Pope Benedict XVI meets members of the Emmanuel Community
On 3 February 2011, the Holy Father received members of International Council and bishops coming from the Emmanuel Community in audience at the Vatican. During the audience, the Moderator of the Community, Laurent Landete, made a speech. The Holy Father encouraged the Community to be true to its charisms of adoration, compassion and evangelisation...to give essential space to the encounter with Christ, Emmanuel; to be authentically Eucharistic and missionary; to proclaim the Gospel among families, to youth and in intellectual circles; to be attentive to people returning to the Church who may not have had a thorough catechesis; to take care to foster fraternal unity; and to be concerned about working with the local Church. For the full text, http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2011/february/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20110203_emmanuel_en.html
Emmanuel CommunityThe Emmanuel Community was born in Paris in 1972, at the heart of the Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic Church, following the Second Vatican Council. Today, with more than 9,000 members, the Community is present in 57 countries. All states of life are represented: families, single people, priests (220), seminarians (115), consecrated lay people living in celibacy for the kingdom (180 brothers and sisters). Together, in the complementarity of their states of life, they strive to respond to the call of God: to serve and to proclaim Christ in the contemporary world. Adoration, compassion, evangelisation
The founding charism of the Emmanuel Community derives from the deep communion between the common priesthood (of the baptised) and the ministerial priesthood (the priests) in the same spiritual life marked by eucharistic adoration, adoration of God "Emmanuel", that is "God-with-us", adoration from which flows compassion, itself a source of the desire to evangelise, to announce to the whole world the Good News of Salvation. The Moderator of the Emmanuel Community is Laurent Landete. The community is governed by the International Council. On 20 June 2009, the Emmanuel Community was erected as an International Public Association of the Faithful by a decision of the Pontifical Council of the Laity.
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