Personal stories

Jean-Claude Foubert and Marie-Annick Hervieux, both ASCJ, accompanied by Béatrice Brocard, reference person for SSCJ-France, met with a small group of Friends ASCJ from Kremlin Bicêtre and from Paris, at the Holy Family of Kremlin Parish (Val de Marne). Objectives for the meeting: * get to know each other better, * support and encourage the Kremlin group to continue their mission following the departure of the sisters during the summer, * reflect more broadly on future perspectives for the ASCJ movement in France, * identify what is…

Pope Francis in his encyclical Fratelli Tutti describes ‘tenderness’ as “love that draws near and becomes real. A movement that starts from our heart and reaches the eyes, the ears and the hands”. (p. 194) What a great opportunity for us at Naza-reth House to live up to this challenge even as we are experiencing the lockdown once again. We are getting to know the Sisters and Residents better. We listen and chat and laugh with them. Communication with the Sisters and the Residents is very important…

Just finished helping a man in my building to register on-line for a family Doctor.  He said he didn’t have the patience to do it himself.  It is these kinds of things that I find myself doing in the building where I live.  Sometimes it is as simple as picking up a few groceries or changing a light bulb.  Other times it involves doing a bit of pastoral ministry and talking about forgiveness with a man who spent most of his life working on merchant ships.  For…