Cenacle News

We celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of the Cenacle. Sister Ann shares her experience of life in the Cenacle. 

How can we continue to exist fully even as we grow older?

"You have come, Lord, into our night, to turn our paths towards the dawn." 

A beautiful time of sharing

The Kremlin Bicêtre community organised a workshop to make more ecological sponges.

On September 26th, the handover between two Superiors General of the congregation took place in Rome. 

Sr Kate recounts the evening of celebration for her inauguration as Provincial

Sister Marie tells us about the celebration of sister Kate's installation 

A session on the theme of interculturality in Turin narrated by three professed.

Our Provincial Superior of the Europe-Togo Province was elected General Superior

Listening, discerning,calling on the Holy Spirit

We enter the second week of the Chapter, and we start to gather the fruits of the previous week’s work. We viewed the various issues from four different vantage points.

Our General Chapter is taking place in Rome from May 15 to June 12, 2022: 41 sisters gathered to listen to the Lord, to listen to what he wants for our world and for our Congregation today.

Each week, a capitulating sister from the Europe-Togo Province gives us her testimony on how she lives her preparation for the chapter and its impact on her life.

Each week, a capitulating sister from the Europe-Togo Province gives us her testimony on how she lives her preparation for the chapter and its impact on her life.

On 21st/ 22nd February 2022, 18 sisters from the Cenacle communities of Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, Rome, Toulouse, Versailles and Vogan met at the Cenacle Spiritual Centre in Versailles, to work and exchange ideas on how help each other to accompany young people in their affective life. 

"You have come, Lord, into our night, to turn our paths towards the dawn." 

The second session of the 2021 Provincial Chapter took place from September 25th to October 3rd. This chapter has made us live personally and communitarily something of its spiritual experience : to taste the Goodness of God and to "give oneself up" in trust in the motherly prayer of Our Lady of the Cenacle to whom we have all entrusted ourselves.

The result of the unification of the three former provinces of England-Ireland, France-Togo and Italy, now has its own personality and a rich history.

Welcome to our new home in Brixton, London. We arrived here in November 2020 in the middle of the second “lockdown.” We have been here for almost nine months. We have spent the time, as well as continuing our ministry (mostly on Zoom) getting the house the way we want it and to make it a welcoming place for everyone.

Surrounded by her family and friends, the sisters of the Congregation and the people who have marked her path, Sister Anne-Catherine (Montmartre community) will make her perpetual profession on Saturday 26 June 2021 in the church of Saint Ignatius in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France.

On Saturday 12 June 2021, Sister Marielle (community of Versailles, France) will commit herself forever to following Jesus Christ in the Congregation of Our Lady of the Cenacle, at the time of her perpetual profession.

On Saturday 5 June 2021 at 4pm in Rome, Italy, Sister Patrizia made her perpetual profession. She gave herself totally to the love of the Lord who has called her and she was definitively accepted into the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Cenacle. The celebration was broadcasted live.

We have had our community triduum in Montmartre, beginning with the vespers of the Feast of the Ascension and ending with the Feast of Our Lady of the Cenacle. On the day after, Sunday, we all went to mass together in the church of St Ignatius for the blessing and installation of a portrait of Mother Therese in one of the chapels...

500 years ago, St. Ignatius of Loyola was wounded in the battle of Pamplona. This injury shattered his dreams of worldly glory and put him on a way of conversion which would ultimately lead to the foundation of the Society of Jesus. Here is a film about his story, made by The Jesuits of the European Low Countries.

In this festive season, here are some thoughts and reflections from Sister Kathleen Hopkins of the Liverpool community about the mystery of the Cenacle. 

From May 2021 until July 2022, the Society of Jesus celebrates an Ignatian Year. What is an Ignatian Year? May 20, 2021 marks the 500th anniversary of St. Ignatius’ conversion - that fateful day when Ignatius the soldier, struck by a cannonball, began his transformation into Ignatius the pilgrim. Here are some key dates in 2021 and 2022. 

A first virtual meeting of the Provincial Chapter 2021 held from 23 to 25 April. It brought together 70 participants, sisters and lay people, for 3 days, on the theme of “How do the challenges facing the Church affect us?”.

The next Chapter of the Europe-Togo Province of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Cenacle will take place in Rome from 25 September to 4 October 2021. But in fact, what is a Provincial Chapter? What are the issues and topics discussed? How does such a gathering take place? How is the voting done? All the answers in this article!

The Toulouse community, based in France, is no exception to this motto: the sisters are adapting their activities and have become familiar with Skype, Zoom and other virtual means of communication.

Surrounded by her relatives and respecting health restrictions, Sister Yoanna celebrated her first vows in October 2020 in the chapel of the Vo-Pedakondji Spiritual Centre, the place of her novitiate.

Sister Luisa publishes a book of 80 pages, to enlighten the reader and the companion on this very ancient art in the Christian tradition.

Sister Anne-Catherine's entry into her "third year", a time for prayer and reflection.