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Handbook of the

Lay Fraternities

 Of the

 Little Brothers

 And

Little Sisters

Of the Eucharist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Handbook

Brother Charles

Fraternity

The Path for the Sake of Jesus

Our Only Rule

Nazareth 

Abandonment

Contemplation

The Desert

A Living Gospel

A Universal and Particular Love

Our Mandate

The Way of Fraternity

Order of Meeting

  Gospel Sharing

  Adoration

  Review of Life

Ecumenism

Leadership

The Decision to Live In Fraternity  

Commitment

Money

Appendix

  Prayers

  Songs

 

Preface

 

Over the past many years there have been numerous requests for information on Lay Fraternities of Charles de Foucauld.  These requests have challenged our lay fraternities of Cleveland to share their life and spirituality.

 

This booklet describes the life and spirit of the Lay Fraternities of the Little Brothers and Sisters of the Eucharist, which takes as its mandate to become bread. Taken. Blessed. Broken and Given.

 

What is expressed in this booklet is only a beginning, We hope that those of you who reflect on these pages will   share with us what you observe and will help us improve what is contained in these few pages.

 

Our fraternities have been together for over twenty-five years. Presently we are two fraternities and twelve in number.  For many the spirituality of Brother Charles de Foucauld has become a Way of Life for the rest of their lives.

 

It is our hope that in sharing about our fraternity life that it will be a sower of many new seeds and many more little communities of faith.  May the Lord Jesus give us all the grace to live the ideal of Brother Charles. ”Unless the grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies. It will remain Just a grain of wheat.  But if it dies. It produces much fruit.1  (John 12:24)

 

                                  Father Jim O’Donnell

                                  Little Brothers & Sisters of the Eucharist

                                  2186 East 35th Street

                                  Cleveland. Ohio 44115

                                  (Phone #216-566-0531)

 

                                   January 25. 2007