Jesus Caritas

The vocation of the Little Brothers and Sisters of Jesus is to share the life of ordinary people, to exercise an apostolate of religious presence in the world. The Brothers were founded by Rene Voillaume, inspired by the example of the famous ex-soldier, ex-monk,the hermit Charles de Foucauld. For the last decade of his life he lived on the edge of the Sahara. For his followers today the desert is a symbol of the absence of religion from a materialistic age, sometimes rich sometimes poor, but always rather empty. This book is a selection of letters that Father Voillaume wrote to the Fraternities (the communities of the Brothers) all over the world, together with notes he wrote about their life, as he went on his travels to visit them wherever they were. His words are written from Brazil, or Luanda or Delhi, or from Marseilles. But they speak always the simple Christianity of the Gospels whilst discussing the difficult problems of living a life of prayer in community and earning a living in the world. There could hardly be a better kind of 'spiritual reading', deeplyspiritual, yet rooted in the everyday realities.