700 young religious meet in France :D

[NadaTeTurbe]

Brother and Sister act II, is the name of the meeting of more than 700 young religious that took place in Paris, in France ! 

The theme was "the joy". 

Here is a reportage, in french : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2pg48l_brother-and-sister-act-ii_tv?start=42 

You can see the diversity of religious life in France. Sister in wimple speak with sister in jean and t-shirt. A lot of brothers and sisters are coming from Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Eastern Europe, etc... There's a lot of colour as you can see ! 

In France, there is 35 183 religious, 29 085 sisters, the other are brothers. Please keep in mind that only 4% of the catholic go to mass once by month in France, it's 40% in the US, we're not a very religious country. 9,04% of this religious are foreigners. The median age of sisters is 73,5 years old, and for brother it's 63,9 years old.

http://www.la-croix.com/Religion/Spiritualite/Dans-le-monde-ou-en-dehors-nous-vivons-la-meme-radicalite-_EP_-2012-01-27-762764 Here you can read a meeting between a Daughter of Jesus of Kermaria, and a Benedictine of Argentan, who have different way of life, but are very interesting. "In the world or out of the world, we live the same radicalism." Other quote is : "There are different way of living religious life, like there is 4 gospels to tell the life of Jesus." 

After watching and reading all of this, I think there is three words for religious life in France : Diversity, Unity, and Joy ! 

 

[marigold]

Fascinating, thank you!