EMMANUEL COMMUNITY SYDNEY
ABOUT US
"AND THEY SHALL NAME HIM EMMANUEL"
The Emmanuel Community was born out of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in 1972. It started with a prayer meeting in Paris with Pierre Goursat and Martine Laffitte-Catta and grew quickly in France and around the world. In 1992, the Holy See recognised that the Emmanuel Community acts for the common good of the whole Catholic Church. As a Public Association of the Faithful, it brings together priests, consecrated men and women, families and single people who testify to the ecclesiology of communion encouraged by the Second Vatican Council. In 2017, this call to live the complementarity of the states of life for the new evangelisation led the Congregation for the Clergy to erect the Clerical Association of the Emmanuel Community (gathering priests and deacons). It is indissolubly linked to the Association of Faithful.
SYDNEY Blog
All My Soul – New Album
Emmanuel Music releases a typically American album. All my soul Unreleased tracks, covers with new arrangements… Bas Suijkerbuijk, head of Emmanuel Music, shares his experience of the ...
You Are Not Alone – Retreat Day
Every year, the Emmanuel Community facilitates a Retreat Day for married couples who have been unable to have children due to infertility, miscarriage, or still-birth. This has ...
7 Churches Pilgrimage
On Saturday 12 October 2024, 100 Pilgrims united for the annual 7 Churches Pilgrimage in Sydney. Organised by the Emmanuel Community in Sydney, pilgrims prayed at and ...
Words of Wisdom
Look, today I am setting you over nations and over kingdoms, to tear up and to knock down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to ...
Words of Wisdom
“These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John; ...
Emmanuel Community Pentecost Retreat
“The retreat was a grace-filled opportunity to celebrate the great liturgical event of Pentecost, with a focus on receiving God’s passionate love – the Holy Spirit – ...
Words of Wisdom
“‘I tell you solemnly, there is no one who has left house, brothers, sisters, father, children or land for my sake and for the sake of the ...
Emmanuel Community Love & Truth Retreat
On the 27-28th April 2024, the Emmanuel Community in Sydney facilitated a Love & Truth weekend for married couples at Mount Carmel Retreat Centre in Varroville, NSW. ...
Words of Wisdom
They put fresh heart into the disciples, encouraging them to persevere in the faith. ‘We all have to experience many hardships’ they said ‘before we enter the ...
Words of Wisdom
There is nothing more good and beautiful than somebody laying down their life for another. We know this because this is what God did on the cross. ...
Words of Wisdom
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 ...
Words of Wisdom
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 ...
School of Prayer in the Catholic Weekly
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 ...
Emmanuel Community facilitates parish Mercy Night
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 ...
Words of Wisdom
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 ...
EMMANUEL
MUSIC
Songs of praise, celebration and worship to pray and meet God through music.
"Life is a journey, along different roads, different paths, which leave their mark on us. We know in faith that Jesus seeks us out"
The Emmanuel Community's vocation is to bear witness to God's presence in the world, his closeness and his love for each person.
It brings together lay people (married, single, consecrated in celibacy) and priests, who live in the heart of the world and put themselves together at the service of the mission of the Catholic Church through adoration, compassion and evangelisation.
OUR MISSIONS
In order to announce the good news of God's presence by adapting to the needs of the world, the Emmanuel Community has developed many proposals for couples and families, children, adolescents, young people, those who want to bear witness in professional life or serve the poor.
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