Fire & Hope is a prayer group for young people aged from 18-25. We will meet once a month at St Peter Chanel Church in Berala. Each time we meet we will have a time of praise, a talk and a time o...
Two of the disciples of Jesus were on their way to a village called Emmaus, seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking together about all that had happened. Now as they talked this over, J...
Come away for an experience of intimacy with the Sacred Heart of Jesus, who sends us His Holy Spirit at Pentecost. This retreat, run by the Emmanuel Community, will feature talks, Mass, silent Eu...
https://emmanuel.info/en/event-pentecost-retreat-from-the-heart-of-jesus/
I will establish my Covenant between myself and you, and your descendants after you, generation after generation, a Covenant in perpetuity, to be your God and the God of your descendants after yo...
Every first Friday of the month, the Emmanuel Community facilitates a School of Prayer at St. Peter Chanel in Berala. This has been featured in the Catholic Weekly. You can read the article here:...
https://emmanuel.info/en/school-of-prayer-in-the-catholic-weekly/
On 14 March 2024, the Emmanuel Community was invited by the parish of St Patrick’s in Sutherland to facilitate a Mercy Night. The evening captured the hearts of the local parishioners. There we...
https://emmanuel.info/en/emmanuel-community-facilitates-parish-mercy-night/
The angel brought me to the entrance of the Temple, where a stream came out from under the Temple threshold and flowed eastwards, since the Temple faced east…‘This water flows east down to th...
Ecclesia’M Jeunes, c’est la nouvelle année missionnaire pour les jeunes 18-28ans qui débutera en septembre 2024 Un an au coeur d’une paroisse en France pour se laisser transformer par le ...
https://emmanuel.info/en/ecclesiam-jeunes-un-an-pour-devenir-acteur-de-leglise/
23rd Feb 2024 St John Bosco Parish Centre with the Emmanuel Community In 2018 and 2019, at the request of the Archbishop, the Emmanuel Community provided the annual Clergy retreat for the Sydney ...
https://emmanuel.info/en/find-rest-for-your-soul-an-afternoon-retreat/
A retreat day for married couples who have been unable to have children due to infertility, miscarriage or still-birth. Though you may experience pain, grief, and shame, with the support of other...
The Emmanuel Community is facilitating a School of Prayer on the first Friday of each month. The School of Prayer is an invitation to console the heart of Jesus, as Jesus asked us through St Marg...
Join us for a weekend away with your spouse to focus on:* Your relationship with the Lord* Your life as a couple, and* Raising children todayEngaged and married couples are welcome.The weekend wi...
https://emmanuel.info/en/event-love-truth-retreat-order-in-chaos/
The Emmanuel Community hosts monthly Mission Nights at the church of St. Vincent de Paul in Redfern. The goal of the night is to spread God’s love through joyful encounters with those passing b...
“I have called you by name, you are mine” With great joy in being together, the Emmanuel Community National Gathering was held from 18 – 21 January at the beautiful Benedict XVI Retreat Cen...
https://emmanuel.info/en/emmanuel-community-national-gathering/
The Emmanuel Community's College of Prayer and Election elected a new council for a 5-year term. Michel-Bernard de Vregille was elected General Moderator for a new term.
https://emmanuel.info/en/election-new-international-council-emmanuel-community-2023/
Kornel Fábry is hungarian and has just been appointed auxiliary bishop for the diocese of Esztergom-Budapest. Priest of the Emmanuel Community since 2000, he is now 51 years old.
https://emmanuel.info/en/hungary-emmanuel-priest-appointed-auxiliary-bishop-of-budapest/
Marie (Czech Republic), is a doctor. She shares her calling to love and serve God, leading a contemplative life in the middle of the World, and encountering God in her patients and colleagues in ...
https://emmanuel.info/en/marie-i-learned-to-love-the-world-as-god-loves-it/
Isabella (Netherlands) is a business lawyer. She was not raised a Christian. She tells us how God made it possible for her to become a consecrated sister, and to live this vocation visibly in her...
https://emmanuel.info/en/isabella-baptized-at-the-age-of-19-business-lawyer-and-consecrated-sister/
Armelle (France) is a High School teacher. She explains why she chose to live her vocation to consecrated life within the Emmanuel Community, on mission with brothers and sisters from different w...
https://emmanuel.info/en/armelle-i-was-looking-for-a-place-to-give-my-life-to-the-lord/
Manon (Germany) is an occupational therapist. She had always wanted to get married until the question of consecrated life popped-up one day and opened a path of freedom and joy for her. https://y...
When I began my professional work, my life became extremely busy. A friend suggested I make a retreat in the Sinai Desert. Those ten days of walking in silence and the experience of prayer of the...
At the great feast of Pentecost, God sent the Holy Spirit to encourage, enliven, and embolden the early Christians to love and to preach the Way. As followers of Jesus Christ we sometimes forget ...
https://emmanuel.info/en/event-pentecost-retreat-2023-prepare-the-way-for-the-lord/
I work as a nurse with autistic children who suffer serious problems with regard to relationships and communication. I consider my work as a special gift, which gives me, by its very nature, the ...
https://emmanuel.info/en/asuncion-a-consecrated-sister-working-with-autistic-children/
« The future of the Church depends on it » Cardinal Kevin Farrell From 16 to 18 February, a congress was held in Rome, organised by the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life. The theme of th...
https://emmanuel.info/en/co-responsibility-between-priests-and-laity-for-mission/
Young Catholics between the ages of 18 and 25 are invited to a youth dinner on Sunday, October 16 at 6pm. The theme of the evening is ‘Taste and see the goodness of the Lord’ (Psalm 34:8). Th...
https://emmanuel.info/en/event-ec-youth-dinner-sunday-16-october/
This coming Friday, September 23, the Emmanuel Community will be hosting its monthly Mission Night at the church of St. Vincent de Paul in Redfern. The goal of the night is to spread God’s love...
https://emmanuel.info/en/emmanuel-mission-night-go-therefore-to-the-streets-mt-229/
This retreat is for married and engaged couples, and will take place on November 19-20, 2022 at Mt. Carmel Retreat Centre in Varroville (near Campbelltown). The theme of the retreat is “A Call ...
https://emmanuel.info/en/event-love-truth-retreat-marriage-a-call-to-happiness/
Love & Truth is a worldwide outreach of the Emmanuel Community for couples seeking to grow in their Christian vocation to marriage. The outreach takes the form of various events designed for men ...
Come and join us this May 15th, for the Seven Churches Pilgrimage in Sydney. Following in the tradition of St Philip Neri of Rome, the Emmanuel Community invites you on a Seven Churches Pilgrimag...
Where is God? Where is the Holy Spirit? Our lives are so rich, and yet, there is often a darkness – there is so much mental anguish, sorrow, and grief. We hunger for meaning, and long to live a...
“Together we are Called” is a retreat day for married and engaged couples organised by the Love and Truth Team of the Emmanuel Community. This day is a great opportunity to spend quality ...
The CIASE (Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church) submitted its report on sexual abuse in the Church in France between 1950 and 2020 to the French bishops on Tuesday 5 October 2021...
https://emmanuel.info/en/sexual-abuses-in-the-french-church-ciase-report-submitted/
Further progress in the beatification process of the Rugamba family: on 23 September 2021, their file was sealed and sent to Rome, marking the end of the diocesan phase of this process. The beati...
https://emmanuel.info/en/rugamba-family-closure-of-the-diocesan-phase-of-the-beatification-process/
On 16 September 2021, the annual meeting of lay associations, Church movements, and new communities was held in Rome, organized by the Dicastery for the Laity, Family, and Life. The participants,...
Fidesco also sends volunteers to France. On Thursday 30 September 2021, the second promotion of these volunteers from the South coming to help in the North was sent on mission during the day’s ...
https://emmanuel.info/en/volunteering-fidesco-sends-4-volunteers-to-france/
The theme of this day is based on the words of Jesus Christ “I am with you always”. An initiative of the Pope at the heart of the year dedicated to the family One year after the Congress “T...
https://emmanuel.info/en/world-day-for-grandparents-and-the-elderly/
The Emmanuel Community is happy to announce new ordinations to the priesthood and diaconate in 2021: Priestly ordinations • Mateusz SZYBIAK, 19 May in the Basilica of Divine Providence by Cardi...
https://emmanuel.info/en/priestly-and-diaconal-ordinations-2021/
This year, 2 German priests from the Emmanuel Community are participating in the Vocation Music Award, a prize created in 2019 around the theme of God’s call on our lives. Below, you can discov...
As the Emmanuel Community celebrates 40 years of consecrated life, five consecrated sisters have made, or are about to make, a commitment, whether temporary or permanent. Message from the leader ...
https://emmanuel.info/en/5-new-engagements-in-the-women-consecrated-life/
Appointed Bishop of Lisala on 15 February, Bishop José Likolo, a priest of Kinshasa and a member of the Emmanuel Community, was ordained on Saturday 29 May by Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, ...
https://emmanuel.info/en/a-look-back-at-the-episcopal-ordination-of-bishop-jose-likolo-of-lisala/
This Family Year Amoris Laetitia is very concrete reflected in the Pope’s prayer intentions. With a particular focus on youth, his prayer intention for June is for young people preparing for ...
https://emmanuel.info/en/in-june-pray-with-the-pope-for-the-young-adults-preparing-for-marriage/
In preparation for the World Eucharistic Congress to be held in September 2021 in Budapest, the event team is proposing a worldwide Eucharistic adoration on Saturday 5 June 2021, the vigil of Cor...
https://emmanuel.info/en/global-eucharistic-adoration-for-corpus-christi-2021/
Have you ever dreamed to live and do missionary work in Rome? No is your chance to spend 9 months, with other young adults doing just that. If you are interested in the mission, prayer and frater...
https://emmanuel.info/en/missionary-in-rome-want-to-know-more/
The summer is coming quickly and in the Emmanuel Community we are starting to prepare some spiritual options for you to spend in a different type of vacation. This article focuses on a 2 weeks vo...
https://emmanuel.info/en/this-summer-how-about-volunteering-in-altotting/
It is the audacious yet straightforward proposal made by Otto Neubauer, a member of the Emmanuel community in Austria, responsible for the Academy for Dialogue and Evangelisation. Since December,...
We want to give you some news about the youth formation we reflected up on the last years and the ESM missions across the world. What changes and what is getting renewed within the Emmanuel Youth...
https://emmanuel.info/en/youth-mission-schools-of-mission-updates/
On 1 May, the Holy Father will open a month of prayer to ask God for an end to the pandemic. He invites the faithful to pray the rosary throughout the month of May for this intention. The theme ...
https://emmanuel.info/en/pope-urges-for-the-rosary-prayer-in-may/
On Saturday 20 March 2021, a delegation from FidesCo was received in audience by the Pope on the occasion of the association’s 40th anniversary. Testimony During the teaching I received for the...
https://emmanuel.info/en/responding-to-gods-mercy-fidesco-encounter-with-the-pope/
“We never come out of a crisis unscathed… we come out better or worse,” says the Pope in his book: Let us dream (December 2020). In this book, born of his own experience of confinement, the...
https://emmanuel.info/en/let-us-dream-by-pope-francis-a-personal-book/
Having weathered the harshest of storms, this Rwandan couple appears to be a model of mutual sanctification. Portrait by Amaury Guillem Article originally published in Il est vivant! n°333 By Am...
https://emmanuel.info/en/cyprian-and-daphrose-rugamba-the-battle-of-love/
THE PIERCED HEART Each day, the course includes a short word, a short text from the Bible and a small action for you to take. The prayers for the Easter week are to be found in this article. Yo...
https://emmanuel.info/en/lent-booklet-closer-to-the-heart-of-christ-easter-week/
The special year of Amoris Laetitia desired by Pope Francis is an opportunity to highlight the mission of Love and Truth at the service of couples and families. Benoît and Véronique Rabourdin, ...
THE PIERCED HEART Each day, the course includes a short word, a short text from the Bible and a small action for you to take. The prayers for the 6th week (28st of March to 3rd of April 2021) is�...
https://emmanuel.info/en/lent-booklet-closer-to-the-heart-of-christ-week-6/
In 2019, the Emmanuel Community created a ‘Commission to Prevent and Fight against Abuse’ (CLA) to make formal the efforts and procedures already adopted. To keep you informed both within the...
The General Moderator, Michel Bernard De Vregilles, is sending his message related to the process of beatification of Pierre Goursat, the founder of the Emmanuel Community. Dear brothers and sist...
https://emmanuel.info/en/pierre-goursat-30-years-from-his-death/
THE HEART (SPIRITUAL) PLACE OF MEETING WITH GOD Each day, the course includes a short word, a short text from the Bible and a small action for you to take. The prayers for the 5th week (21st to 2...
https://emmanuel.info/en/lent-booklet-closer-to-the-heart-of-christ-week-5/
THE HEART IDENTITY Each day, the course includes a short word, a short text from the Bible and a small action for you to take. The prayers for the 4th week (14th to 20th of March 2021) is to be...
https://emmanuel.info/en/lent-booklet-closer-to-the-heart-of-christ-week-4/
THE INTELLIGENT HEART Each day, the course includes a short word, a short text from the Bible and a small action for you to take. The prayers for the 3rd week (7th to 13th of March 2021) is to ...
https://emmanuel.info/en/lent-booklet-closer-to-the-heart-of-christ-week-3/
THE HEART THAT FEELS Each day, the course includes a short word, a short text from the Bible and a small action for you to take. The prayers for the 2nd week (28th of February to 6th of March 202...
https://emmanuel.info/en/lent-booklet-closer-to-the-heart-of-christ-week-2/
OUR HEART OF FLESH… Each day, the course includes a short word, a short text from the Bible and a small action for you to take. The prayers for the 1st week (21st to 27th of February 2021) is ...
https://emmanuel.info/en/lent-booklet-closer-to-the-heart-of-christ-week-1/
Great joy! The Holy Father has appointed Joseph-Bernard Likolo, priest of the Emmanuel Community, ordained for the diocese of Kinshasa, bishop of the diocese of Lisala (Democratic Republic of Con...
https://emmanuel.info/en/mgr-joseph-bernard-likolo-named-bishop-of-lisala-r-d-c/
For this begining of the year, Michel Bernard de Vregille, answered some of Louis-Etienne’s questions about the Emmanuel Community and the Church actuality. 0:00 What is the role of a moderator...
The Emmanuel Youth France are living a 7 days course to discover the new Horizon ! No event in Paray le Monial for the Winter Forum, instead the Emmanuel youth France propose Horizon.A new form...
The lent period is almost here! We are proposing an every day prayer moment prepared by the Sanctuaries of Paray-le-Monial Dear friends, Lent is a providential time. Between the cold of winter an...
https://emmanuel.info/en/lent-booklet-closer-to-the-heart-of-christ/
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And s...
Katarina works for Editions de l’Emmanuel (Emmanuel Publishing House) in Slovenia. To finance the translation of a book, she had a daring idea: participate in a very popular TV game show in Sl...
At the end of 2020, 5 years after the Encyclical Laudato Si publication, Pope Francis declared a Laudato Si year. It is time for us to see where we got and what we learned in the past five years....
https://emmanuel.info/en/integral-ecology-answers-to-laudato-si-encyclical/
The members of the Glorious Cross are the “Witnesses of Christ’s joy and victory»! Starting this month, new section where we would like to present you the different Missions of Emmanuel Comm...
https://emmanuel.info/en/glorious-cross-emmanuel-community-internal-mission/
What is the Glorious Cross? The Glorious Cross is a Mission of the Emmanuel Community created with the purpose to integrate the brothers and sisters who have physical and/or psychological suffera...
Letter of the Fr. Benoit Guédas, the Shrine of the Sacred Heart Sanctuary in Paray-le-Monial ( France), entrusted to the Emmanuel Communtiy Dear friends, What are the criteria for a good year? T...
Speaking of integral ecology implies going back to the sources to understand what it is all about. This is what Pierre-Yves Gomez, founder of the Zaccheus course, is proposing to us. What does th...
https://emmanuel.info/en/laudato-si-taking-care-of-the-creation/
In Australia, Love and Truth organised an evening to help couples renew their love experienced through confinement. “Last week we passed 100 days of Stage 4 lockdown in Melbourne, with among th...
https://emmanuel.info/en/love-in-lockdown-a-testimony-from-australia/
If you are reading this article, you are connected to the internet. However, too many connections often prevent you from connecting well to God. So here are a few ideas on how to nurture your rel...
https://emmanuel.info/en/a-few-ideas-to-connect-to-god-while-offline/
On the eve of the All Saints Day, CHARIS ( international service for all the expressions of the current of grace that the Charismatic Renewal) has organized a virtual prayer night addressed t...
https://emmanuel.info/en/prayer-night-for-youths-organized-by-charis/
“The pandemic has greatly amplified the cry of the poor and that of the earth” Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam is a priest and Coordinator of the “Ecology and Creation” team within the Dicaste...
Carlo Acutis, known as the cyber-apostle of the Eucharist, will be beatified on 10 October 2020! His body can be venerated from the beginning of October in the Sanctuary of the Strip of Assisi (I...
Michael Lonsdale was a British-French actor who appeared in over 180 films and television shows. Known in the English-speaking world for his roles as the villain Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond ...
https://emmanuel.info/en/michel-lonsdale-the-artist-in-love-with-god/
In 2020-2021, 5 of the 7 schools of evangelization will undergo significant changes. Father Janez Rus, the International Youth Coordinator for the Emmanuel Community, gives us the inside scoop. J...
Let’s give the floor to Felipe! Felipe Arancibia, 38, Chilean, is director of the ESM Salvador (Brazil) since 2019. an interview by Laurence de Louvencourt for “Il est Vivant Magazine” (ori...
https://emmanuel.info/en/to-live-with-the-youth-to-mentor-them-to-encourage-them-%E2%80%8B/
Throwback Thursday! Almost a year ago, an International Youth Forum was held in Rome, Desfortunées, a young adult from Cameroon, tells “Il est Vivant” about her amazing experience.* Desfortu...
https://emmanuel.info/en/at-the-synod-i-saw-a-church-listening-to-young-people/
In just a few days, we’ll be celebrating Pentecost! Sarah, from Australia, tells us “let yourselves be prompted by the Holy Spirit!” In January, James and I moved our family from Melbourne ...
Dear friends! For 35 years, ESMs helped empower young men and women so that they, rooted in Christ, could become missionary actors in our society. It’s incredible how it all started from 1 ESM ...
https://emmanuel.info/en/esms-in-transition-in-the-spirit-of-pentecost/
A charismatic youth, simple and joyful, living her life in the odor of sanctity – an article from Charis Magazine* – Born in October 9, 1986, in France, Claire was adopted by a family of the ...
https://emmanuel.info/en/god-first-claire-emeretienne-fichefeux/
Nancy, one of the young adults in the USA is a nurse, she tells us about her real struggles but also REAL HOPE and PEACE! Nancy, you’ve been working as a nurse during the crisis, how have you b...
https://emmanuel.info/en/the-power-of-prayer-and-perseverance-turns-sadness-into-joy/
We have heard “Love triumphs”! And it does! Laetitia and Maarten tell us the story about their marriage and how Love triumphed amidst the lockdown times Hi! We are Laetitia and Maarten from B...
https://emmanuel.info/en/ja-yes-to-the-lord-yes-to-each-other-yes-to-hope-and-to-joy/
“The Lord desires to do more than call us to be close to Him. He wants to give Himself entirely to us. The Holy Spirit makes us enter into the very Heart of Jesus, into this blazing furnace of ...
Limited resources and food supplies, difficulty in social distancing and telework, low internet availability … these do not prevent brothers and sisters in Asia to become creative missionaries ...
https://emmanuel.info/en/from-the-continent-of-the-rising-sun-hope-arises/
« What do I fear the most: to die or to live without God? » How do NGO volunteers manage the COVID-19 crisis during their mission? Anne-Gaelle, consecrated sister in the Emmanuel Community, is ...
https://emmanuel.info/en/fear-most-die-live-without-god-testimony-madagascar/
Quarantine and porn: 10 tips to not fall into the trap However small or big, addictions concerns us all. Take a closer look, aren`t we all hooked (at least a bit…) to something? Work, screens, ...
https://emmanuel.info/en/quarantine-porn-10-tips-to-not-fall-into-the-trap/
“Murumve twana twanjye nabaraze urukundo” * “Listen my children, my legacy to you is love!” *Murumve twana twanjye nabaraze urukundo” or “Listen my children, my legacy to you is love!...
“In the present situation, in which we find ourselves living more or less isolated, we are invited to rediscover and deepen the value of the communion that unites all the members of the Church....
https://emmanuel.info/en/holy-masses-live-online-broadcasts/
Husband of Mary After the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Joseph is our powerful intercessor before God. St Joseph faithfully cared for his little family, Jesus and Mary. No sacrifice was too great for h...
The consequences of the continuing Coronavirus epidemic around the world are already very serious. Vulnerable people are the most exposed. The consequences on the functioning of the economy and t...
February 2 marks the Feast Day of Consecrated life – Here’s some news of the Formation House in Paris “Dear Consecrated brothers and sisters, you are simple men and women who caught sight o...
Around 50 brothers and sisters of the Zone-Europe met from January 24-26 in The Hague, in the Willibrordushuis, a house of the Brothers of Saint John. They took time together to work on different...
https://emmanuel.info/en/emmanuel-community-european-advisory-council-in-the-hague-the-netherlands/
The Word of God should be at the heart of our life!
Between January 9 and 12, 2020, different leaders of the Emmanuel Community in Latin America were gathered in São Paolo (Brazil) to pray and discern together on how to favor the growth of all it...
https://emmanuel.info/en/encounter-of-leaders-of-the-emmanuel-community-in-latin-america/
On January 21, 2020, Pope Francis appointed Fr Dominique-Marie David as Archbishop of the Principality of Monaco. January 21, is the Feast of Saint Agnes, when the lambs are blessed and whose woo...
https://emmanuel.info/en/new-archbishop-in-monaco-s-e-mgr-dominique-marie-david/
Around 180 young adults from 20 countries gathered together in Kalwaria, Poland for the 5th Emmanuel European Youth Meeting or EEYM. “Do not be afraid” was the theme: do not be afraid of bein...
Eucharistic miracles are often subjected to scientific expertise in order to be able to authenticate them or not. In Buenos Aires (Argentina), experts in the field have produced unimaginable resu...
https://emmanuel.info/en/the-eucharistic-miracle-in-buenos-aires/