France

Photo Album: Little sisters of Jesus, France

Little Sisters Hackney — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:03:26 +0000

Photographs of the Little Sisters of Jesus and their friends in France read more »

Photo Album: Little sisters of Jesus, France among Travelling people

Little Sisters Hackney — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:16:27 +0000

Photographs of the Little Sisters of Jesus and their travelling friends in France read more »

"You have some new messages"

lbj.leeds — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:02:02 +0000

After his twelve years of service to the General Fraternity, Marc has gone back to Lille where he lived before that. He is in fraternity with a group of four young brothers who are studying theology. Last November, Marc found a job. Here he describes his first impressions and his first encounters. What does one say when God is silent? Invisible but present, He sends us message after message. read more »

News from Lille

lbj.leeds — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:24:48 +0000

The first fraternity in the north-east of France (in Roubaix) dates from 1951. The one on Lille was founded in 1982 in a neighbourhood with a very large presence of foreigners. mainly Moroccans. For a long time that brothers in Lille have quite often welcomed young men who want to make a stay in a fraternity, as well as foreign brothers who come to France to learn French. Since 2006 it has also been a fraternity for brothers who are students. read more »

A life focused on the Eucharist

lbj.leeds — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:48:25 +0000

Concarneau is a fishing port in the west of France from where several brother sailors, including Michel, have sailed, mainly in the trawling lanes on the high seas. Several brothers have retired, others have died. Michel is not a priest but throughout his life as a sailor he has been drawn to the Eucharist, the sign of a life given to following Jesus. Reference to the Eucharist occurs often in the text and creates the unity of this testimony. read more »

A story of friendship in the back streets of Marseille

Little Sisters Hackney — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:36:14 +0000

France Marseille

Little Sisters Liliane and Marie-Raymonde closed their community in Marseille, France, last February after many years of presence to the women in the port city's world of prostitution. They both now live in a retirement house in Aix-en-Provence. read more »

News from Berdine (France)

lbj.leeds — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:47:01 +0000

Jean Michel has lived most of his life in a fraternity in Algeria. He has now been 5 years in a community helping people who need rehabilitation... read more »

In the footsteps of Brother Charles

JC Administrator — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:30:07 +0000

Start: 08/01/2008 - 08:13

Timezone: GB

Brother Charles' 'fraternity' at Béni-Abbés An account of a pilgrimage by members of the Lay Fraternity of Charles de Foucauld, to Algeria to visit the places where Brother Charles lived read more »

Part of our history, News from Villiers-le-Bel, among the Romanies,

Little Sisters Hackney — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:38:46 +0000

The community of Villiers-le Bel opened in September 1998 with the aim of being in contact with the Romanies who had left Roumania to settle on the outskirts of Paris. read more »

Little Sisters of Jesus in France. Le Tubet, our family house.

Little Sisters Hackney — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:54:37 +0000

Tubet Chapel

Little sister Magdeleine received this house as a Christmas present in 1940, one year after she had founded the Little sisters of Jesus in Touggourt, Algeria. It was a real miracle as at that time she had nowhere to house her little community. Generations of Little sisters have stayed there who consider it to be their ‘family house’. read more »