De La Mennais Brothers: Making Jesus Christ better known and loved by young people

The #whereislamennais scarf, designed by our Brothers in Spain, has returned to its spiritual home (See the text on the scarf. Football fans worldwide should see the link with Liverpool FC). Unfortunately, my team the Saints (#saintsfc #southamptonfc) lost to Liverpool, but it was great seeing Keith and Shaun, Sarah and Matthew again. #lamennais #menejoven #TeamWin Sarah Squires and Matthew Sewell, two former Team Win! Educational Project trip + World Youth Day participants whom I bumped into on the train whilst travelling to Anfield.

via Instagram http://ift.tt/1ncFkQH  - Good friend Frère Bob @ Saint-Brieuc One of the perks of having to fly to France once every 6 weeks or so for meetings of our Provincial Council (representing our Brothers in France, England and Italy) is that the Council includes a number of Brothers who have become very good friends of mine over the years and have been incredibly supportive in my own vocational journey as a De La Mennais Brother. The meetings being on the Saturday, I generally stay the Friday nights in our community in Rennes, Brittany. On the Saturdays, I generally travel with a fellow Council member, Frère Bob Léaustic (see photo above) back to his community in Saint-Brieuc on the Breton coast (where he is the Superior). Both our Rennes and Saint-Brieuc communities share with our community in Liverpool a special mandate within the Province as "pôles communautaires" whose job it is to act as a testing ground or laboratory for fresh ideas in terms of living our...