CONSECRATED LIFE FOR WOMEN

GOD ALONE IS ENOUGH

Living as a consecrated woman in the Emmanuel community

Within the Emmanuel Community, some women receive a special call : to consecrate themselves to God in celibacy for the Kingdom.

They live a passionate love by espousing the radical life of Christ, poor, chaste and obedient. With the Virgin Mary, they keep their hearts available for the mission, together with their brothers and sisters, priests, families and singles of the Community.

They live their vocation at the heart of the world and society where they exercise their profession. They adopt a simple way of life in the world which is expressed in the clothes they wear (blue skirt and white top). Their vocation is to give witness to the love of God.

TESTIMONIES

Finding our place becomes much easier when we believe that God is present (that's what "Emmanuel" means: God with us) and that He has sent us to where we are. I understood that the most important thing is what we do with love.

Claire - Consecrated and doctor in Madagscar

COME AND SEE WEek-end

Do you have questions about your vocation? Join a ‘Come and See Weekend‘ that will help you to move forward.

These weekends are organized by members of the Emmanuel Community from different states of life, in various countries.

Contacts for the next Come and See Weekend close to you :

TESTIMONY COME AND SEE

For a long time I had felt a call to consecrated life, but for various reasons – in particular my geographic isolation – I was completely blocked. One day, I read a testimony, in which a young woman described what she had received by participating in a Come and See Weekend: “What seemed to me to be distant, complicated and impossible became simple, close and clear”.

This account touched me deeply. A few months later, an unexpected event made it possible for me to participate in such a Weekend.

There, I understood that God’s invitation matched my deepest desire and I received the strength and the inner freedom to start the journey into consecrated life. Nothing is impossible with God!

DISCERNING YOUR VOCATION

If you want to go further, the Emmanuel Community offers a Discernment Programme of 3 residential Weekends and 6 evenings online.
For more information about this discernment Programme.

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THE JOURNEY OF THE EMMANUEL CONSECRATED SISTERS

Before committing oneself definitively to celibacy for the Kingdom within the Emmanuel Community there are several stages.

The journey begins with a welcome stage (one year). It is followed by a formation stage lasting four years, in which two years are dedicated full time to human, spiritual, intellectual, and pastoral formation. The next two years allow for the simultaneous living of professional and residential life in a fraternity.

At the end of the formation stage, the first commitment is made for a renewable period of three years, followed by the final commitment.

STAGES ON THE JOURNEY

Towards a free definitive commitment

I. THE STAGE OF WELCOME

The aim of the first year is to recognize and accept God’s call without leaving your everyday life.

This stage is lived in a greater availability to the Holy Spirit and to prayer.

II. THE STAGE OF FORMATION

Beginning the stage of formation shows one’s desire to be formed in order to respond to Christ’s call.

The young women receives the cross, a signe of the love of God for her and for the world.

At one point, during the formation stage, she will also receive the common outfit in blue and white, as a sign of her belonging to Christ and her communion with the other sisters.

III. THE COMMITMENT FOR THREE YEARS

‘In response to the Lord’s call, I give myself to Christ and to his merciful love for the evangelisation of the world and the service to the Church.

I also commit myself to three years in celibacy for the Kingdom within the Emmanuel Community’.

Extract from the ritual of the first commitment.

IV. THE FINAL COMMITMENT

During the Mass of commitment, the consecrated sister receives a ring, as a sign of her definitive union with Christ.

She begins a new life, a life that is totally seized by God in an apparently ordinary existence shared with all the members of the Emmanuel Community at the service of the Church.

consecrated sisters

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