Jesus Caritas

Everybody except one person, Louis Massignon (1882-1962), a specialist in Islamology, who was to gain an international reputation, thought the Union begun by Brother Charles would disappear.

He had first met Charles de Foucauld in 1909, and corresponded with him until his death. He did everything
he could to keep the Union his "older brother" had intended alive. He published the Directory. He launched the Charles de Foucauld Association, for which he secured authorisation
from Cardinal Amette.

The groups and congregations that arose all found support and advice from the Association and from Massignon. Until his death, he continued to lead a group of men and women, lay people, religious brothers or sisters and priests, who drew their inspiration from the spirituality of the Directory. In 1947, he named the group the "Sodality of the Directory".

Today this original group is called "Union-Sodality" and has members on all five continents.