The Emmanuel Community is a Catholic Lay International Community that
brings together faithful that share a common call to strive for holiness and
commit themselves to actively live their faith in their daily lives through
adoration, compassion and evangelization; thus, fulfilling their call as the
first believers did who had “only one heart and one soul!” (Acts 4:32).
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.
The founder of the Emmanuel community
interpreted Vatican Council II irrationally and so his concept of mission and
evangelization is Christocentric without being ecclesiocentric. It is the
same for the rest of the Catholic Church. This is a break with the traditional ecclesiology of the Catholic Church in France.
It is the same with Chiara Lubich’s
Focolare Movement, Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, Andrea Riccardi’s
Sant Egidio community, Chiara Amirante’s Nuovi Orrizonti, the Catholic
Charismatic Renewal Movement...
The Emmanuel community works in
parishes in France and has courses on the Catholic faith. They need to ask the
Archbishop of Paris and the Nuncio there, among others, to interpret Vatican
Council II rationally. In this way the Catholic Church returns to traditional mission. This is mission based upon ther being exclusive salvation in the Catholic Church. Then Vatican Council II, can still be accepted but it will be interpreted rationally. It can then only support the past exclusivist ecclesiology and
the old Roman Missal. -Lionel Andrades
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