Little Brothers and Sisters of the Eucharist Handbook

Commitment: Announcing our Covenant

All Christians are consecrated to God through Baptism. However, members of the fraternities may feel called to make a specific consecration of themselves as fraternity members to Jesus. This can be done within the individual fraternity or during a day of recollection or a retreat when several fraternities come together.

Experience has shown us that it has been good to announce our commitment for a period of one year, renewable annually until one is ready to commit themselves for the rest of their life. Announcing our commitment strengthens and renews our life together as a fraternity. We are able to encourage one another and hold each other accountable — becoming more closely bonded together.

The exact form of consecration is left to the person concerned, although it should express a commitment to follow Jesus in the spirit of Brother Charles. The following prayer may provide a guideline:

I consecrate myself to God and to Our Lady, Mary - Mother of the Whole World. I desire to follow Jesus in the Spirit of Brother Charles de Foucauld by living completely for God, by being nourished in the Eucharist and the Word of God, and by proclaiming the Gospel with my life. I desire to become a Eucharistic presence of Jesus within the world and I offer myself to be Taken, Blessed, Broken and Given ...

I embrace the path and life of Nazareth by striving to live a simple, prayerful and ordinary lifestyle in the midst of the world. I desire to live a hidden and ordinary life with extraordinary love, gratitude and fidelity.

In becoming one with Jesus, my Beloved, I desire to have a particular love and compassion for the least significant of my brothers and sisters.

I abandon myself into the hands of our loving Father and pray in the name of Jesus that his will and his will alone be done in me and in all my brothers and sisters I wish no more than this.