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CANA: a European meeting with Xavier Lacroix and Fr. Laurent Fabre The Cana mission which, for several years now has been international, considers essential the regular meetings of its leaders. Last December, 15 countries were represented at the meeting of Cana Europe in the Pothières house (Rhône). Meeting, exchanging, following further training in one’s field of responsibility, being together to listen to the Lord, this is a program favourable to “the strengthening of your stakes” in Chemin Neuf’s mission to couples and families. Gilles and Véronique Cormier, new leaders of Cana International, have already visited Ireland, Uganda, China and Brazil and opened the meeting with a reading of what our society is experiencing.
Xavier Lacroix, professor of philosophy and moral theology in the theology department of the Catholic University of Lyon and member of the National Consultant Committee on ethics, spoke touching on themes as important as “the lasting couple” or “fatherhood”. Father Laurent Fabre, founder and shepherd of the Chemin Neuf Community, told again the story of Cana and shared the “Ten Pearls”.
“Union differentiates” said Teilhard de Chardin. True unity is not uniformity. In a couple: the more we are in unity the more we discover the mystery of the other, who is Other.
A week-end with European colours: flags, languages, traditional cuisines and ecumenical diversity, as there were present brothers and sisters from Orthodox, Greek Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and Catholic denominations. Fr. Laurent Fabre and Xavier Lacroix
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16 European countries were represented: Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the United Kingdom, Russia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Ukraine.