LENT

This is a time of conversion, of prayer, almsgiving and fasting. Let us take special care to repent of our sins and to follow the Lord more closely at this time.

Haiti

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Let us continue to hold the members of the Emmanuel Community and all the disaster victims in Haiti up in prayer and let us continue to give financial support, according to each person’s means.

Pierre Goursat

7 January 2010: Cause for the Canonisation of Pierre Goursat opened in Paris

With the agreement of Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, Archbishop of Paris, the cause for the canonisation of Pierre Goursat, founder of the Emmanuel Community and the Fraternity of Jesus was officially introduced on Thursday 7 January 2010.

The opening Session of the diocesan enquiry took place in the presbytery of the church of the Holy Trinity after a Mass presided over by Mgr Georges Soubrier , emeritus bishop of Nantes and episcopal Delegate of the archbishop of Paris for this cause of canonisation.

During this First Session oaths were taken by the Postulator for the cause (Mgr Francis Kohn) and the Vice-Postuator  (Elisabeth Baranger), as well as by various persons nominated by Cardinal Vingt-Trois for this diocesan enquiry : the episcopal Delegate (Mgr Georges Soubrier), the Promoter of Justice (Mgr Xavier Rambaud), the Notary  (Miss Magalie Moulin), the adjunct Notaries (Mrs Simone Laureau and Miss Myriam Burbaud), in addition to the experts of the historical Commission (Father Bernard Peyrous, Mrs Brigitte Waché and Mr Olivier Landron).

Year for Priests

At Vespers of the feast of the Sacred Heart this year in St.Peter's Basilica in Rome the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, inaugurated the Year for Priests. The reliquary of the heart of Saint Jean-Marie Vianney, Curé d'Ars, was brought to Rome for this ceremony. This year is a special time for the priests and seminarians of the Emmanuel Community.

Emmanuel Community

The 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 8,000 members, the Community is present in 57 countries. All states of life are represented: families, single people, priests (223), seminarians (100), consecrated lay people living in celibacy for the kingdom (25 brothers and 170 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 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.