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| Since the late ‘80s, the Legion and Regnum Christi have been constantly growing in France. After establishing a community of apostolate in Paris, they founded an apostolic school in Méry sur Marne in 1996. |
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In 1985, Father Pierre Gouraud, LC, began working apostolically in
France to prepare the way for new foundations. In July
of 1988, Father Pierre and Héctor Bracho, a consecrated man
of Regnum Christi, moved to France to begin forming
Regnum Christi groups. By the end of that year, Regnum
Christi had a center for reflection, prayer, and study in
Lourdes which was already being frequented by Movement members from
Paris, Lyons, Versailles, and Monaco. During the same year, three
young Frenchmen joined the novitiate of Salamanca, Spain.
From
the start, they organized youth camps. Their contact with the
families led many boys to want to follow a priestly
vocation. Thus, in 1996, the apostolic school was founded in
Méry sur Marne (in the diocese of Meaux, east of
Paris).
The Legion of Christ established its first
center for apostolate in Paris after the 1997 World Youth
Day, which took place in Paris. In September of 1999,
Cardinal Lustiger, the archbishop of Paris, entrusted the Legionaries with
the direction of Chantier, a school in a popular neighborhood of Paris, work in the provinces continued, mainly with
ECYD members in Rennes, Lyons, Bordeaux, Lille, and Tours. The
camps organized during the school year (foreign language camps in
England, pilgrimages to Rome, ski camps in February) and in
the summer (in the Alps, Pyrenees, in Brittany) allowed them
to offer an excellent formation to the youth. The adult
sections of those cities also grew; in Roubaix, near Lille,
they established a center dedicated to the integral formation of
the family and of the youth.
In the
past few years, they have been opening and consolidating Regnum
Christi apostolates such as Youth for the Third Millennium (now
known as Mission Youth) with missions to Lebanon and Mexico;
DIF (Integral Development of the Family), with a center in
Lille, CEFID (Center for Long-distance Formation); GE (Business Generation), to
imbue the world of business with Christian ethics; NET (New
Evangelization of the Third Millennium; clubs and camps for adolescents
from the international CYWN network; and Sacerdos, which offers annual
spiritual exercises for diocesan priests.
While developing these apostolates,
the Legion seeks to work with the local churches in
the task of the New Evangelization. This reality can be
seen in the DIF meetings or in the Génération Jean-Paul
II, a program for young men and women who want
to live their faith counter-culturally, in the spirit of John
Paul II.
The Regnum Christi consecrated women have a
team in Boulogne-Billancourt (near the Paris gates). They work with
youth in ECYD and YTM in Paris and in the
provinces. They also work with women in the Femme Universelle
program, which is an offshoot of the apostolate Génération Jean
Paul II, and is geared specifically to forming and apostolically
launching young women. In the field of education, they have
taken some steps; on March 5, 2005, they opened the
first Movement-directed bilingual kindergarten in Boulogne-Billancourt.
French Catholics,
sensitive to the need of helping form the future teachers
and formators of seminaries, offer generous financial support to the
Legion’s International Maria Mater Ecclesia Pontfical College in Rome.
For more information, contact us at:
Légion du Christ
5,
villa Molitor
75 016 Paris
paris@legionaries.org
Presence
on the Internet:
http://www.regnumchristifrance.org/
http://www.legionduchrist.org/
http://www.dif-france.org/
http://www.forumdelamour.com/principal.php
http://www.generationentreprise.org/
http://www.generationjpii.org/
http://jeunessemissionnaire.com/
http://www.medihom.org/
http://www.amisdejesus.net/
http://www.fr.vocation.com/
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