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The Monastic Communities of Jerusalem were founded in 1975 by Brother

Pierre-Marie Delfieux Pierre-Marie Delfieux (born 4 December 1934 in Campuac; died 21 February 2013 in La Ferté-Imbault) was a French priest and founder of the Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem. Childhood Pierre Delfieux was born on 4 December 1934 into a Christian ...

(died March 2013), until then

prior Prior (or prioress) is an ecclesiastical title for a superior in some religious orders. The word is derived from the Latin for "earlier" or "first". Its earlier generic usage referred to any monastic superior. In abbeys, a prior would be l ...

general, with the aim of promoting the spirit of the monastic desert (cf. Charles de Foucauld) in the heart of cities. In the communities' ''Rule of Life'', Delfieux answers the question: why Jerusalem? "Because Jerusalem is the city given by God to men and built by men for God, thereby becoming the foremost of the cities of the world, and because your vocation is to be a city-dweller, you are a monk, a nun of Jerusalem. (§161) Be vigilant to keep in your heart a true concern for communion with all the sons of Abraham, Jews and Muslims, who are like you worshippers of the one God and for whom Jerusalem is equally a holy City." (§174) These Catholic

communities A community is a Level of analysis, social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place (geography), place, Norm (social), norms, religion, values, Convention (norm), customs, or Identity (social science), identity. Communiti ...

are present in * Belgium : Saint-Gilles (2001- closed Juin 2017) * Canada : Montréal (2004) * France : Paris (1975), Vézelay (1993),

Strasbourg Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...

(1995), Mont-Saint-Michel (2001), La Ferté-Imbault/ Indre (département) (Magdala retreat house), Lourdes- Ossun * Germany: Cologne,

Groß St. Martin The Great Saint Martin Church (german: Groß Sankt Martin, mostly shortened to ''Groß St. Martin'', or , ) is a Romanesque architecture, Romanesque Catholic church in Cologne, Germany. Its foundations (c.960 AD) rest on remnants of a Roman chap ...

(2009) * Italy : Florence,

Pistoia Pistoia (, is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of a province of the same name, located about west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno. It is a typi ...

, Gamogna (1998), Trinità dei Monti (2006) and then in San Sebastiano in Palatino (2016) in Rome * Poland : Warsaw (2010)

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* ''The Jerusalem Community Rule of Life'' (foreword by

Carlo Carretto Carlo Carretto (2 April 1910 – 4 October 1988) was an Italian writer, Catholic priest, and member of the Little Brothers of the Gospel. Biography Early life Born in a peasant family from the Langhe, Carretto was the third of six chil ...

). Paulist Press, 1985. .

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KTO
the French Catholic television service, presents video of daily services from the Jerusalem community in Paris (Monday to Friday, except in August). Christian organizations established in 1975 Catholic religious orders established in the 20th century {{RC-stub

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