My personal growth cannot be continued without being with others, and the group 'The TRAIN' is the best oasis to encounter the self in presence of God and share who we are.
Prayer becomes the whole meeting, not a part of the meeting, and this way to pray by being open to God’s love is transferred day after day to my whole life. 'Sainte Therese de L’Enfant Jesus' once said : 'thinking about somebody or something becomes prayer'. That’s how I feel.
In this small community I learned how to read the Holy bible and how to transform my life to become a channel of God’s love. I learned the meaning of the mass, the origin of the sacraments and this was transformed to a deeper relation with Christ through his history.
The relation built at this level gave me the opportunity to discover other’s struggling and to encounter them mid-way and make with them a part of the path with Jesus like Emmaus disciple and then discovering God’s LOVE.
Accepting myself the way I am, helped me in accepting others and discover who I am in this relation.
As a conclusion this community is growing and is becoming more and more the image of the first church where disciple were trying to find the truth and to understand God’s will by understanding the scripture
Joining the Familial
community “God is with us” in our Parish has changed our life.
First, we have experienced how Jesus Christ became the center of our domestic life.
Thus, our family became day after day, an image of the Holy Family.
Secondly, we have learned how to grow together by taking time to share and
discuss our marital life challenges and how to overcome them.
Thirdly, we have learned to discern. We renounce what negatively affects our
life and we adopt what is good. In one
word, we have learned to choose life.
Finally, we have experienced that GOD is Love, thus we give Love to each other,
to our children and to all other people.
Nowadays, Happy Family life is not evident. Even though marriage
is the fruit of a loving relationship, marital life is facing tremendous challenges.
Sometimes couples, specially the newly married one, need to get specialized
assistance in family related matters.
We, as a
couple, we had taken the decision to join the family and Life Pastoral Committee
in order to assist those families and accompany them through their journey. Accompanying
Couples and helping them in accepting their differences and developing the
quality of their dialogue and listening was some of the services provided.
Consequently Accompanying married people impacted positively our family
life and added value to our relationship. It has helped us in maintaining our personal
relationship. It has improved our listening and communication and we have become
more attentive to each other, we created our own habits which gave stability to
our relationship and energized our mutual love.
As a member of Family and Life Pastoral committee, I am experiencing a life of sisterhood full of love. The committee
is like a family with the responsibility of spreading God’s love among other Families in the Parishes.
Recently I get Corona virus. It was a difficult experience. However, the support of the committee’s members and the familial communities was so overwhelming. They accompanied me daily, through social media, and proved how love can overcome anything.
I discovered that, we, human, are all brothers and sisters. We are all a big family living on this planet and we are all connected: If someone suffers, we all suffer and if someone is happy, we are all happy. Therefore, let us thank GOD for every one of us.
Familial
Communities meetings and activities helped us to know the nature of our relationship.
In fact, we have become more comprehensible towards each other. We used to not listen to the need of the partner, but now we have learned to respect the partner's opinion and to talk about it in a respectful and loving way.
We are eager to share our experience with other couples so that they also enjoy their life together.
Familial communities’
meetings shed more lights into our conjugal life. We have started to pay attention to how to deal with obstacles we face in a flexible manner and to become more attentive to what is beautiful in our relationship.
We cannot describe the love, confidence and joy that we feel after every meeting and this feeling opened to us new horizons towards a path of unlimited spiritual growth and liberation that breaks habits in order to live the life to its fullness.
We joined a s
haring group composed of 4 couples alongside with an 'Accompagnateur'. Each time, we discuss a different issues and subjects. Religious, relational, bible texts, the importance of conversation between couples, the acceptance of our differences, the importance of the sexual relation between couples and others.
Since our marriage, I used to restrain some feelings about some of my partner’s daily acts and this sometimes led to a bigger problem ( or a big explosion as we name it) and that’s when I used to tell him all the things that are bothering me. Being with this group helped us both to speak immediately about every detail disturbing us.
This sharing group is helping us grow wiser. Also we learn a lot from other couples’ experiences. At first, we used to have a meeting once per month but now we meet every two weeks because of the enthusiasm we are feeling with these meetings.
We recommend every couple to be a part of this family.
Attending the M
arriage Preparation Course provided by Metanoia gave us the opportunity to know more about each other and it increased our readiness for familial life experience.
We realized that accepting our differences is the first step to nurture conjugal ties; we learned that dialogue is very important in building healthy relationships and we were initiated on how to read our relationship in the light of the relationship with God.
We recommend engaged couples to attend these courses. It is the best entry to successful marriage and happy family life.
We choose Metanoia Conference Center to host some of E.N.D.
Movement and teams’ conferences and activities…
Time after time we had the opportunity to enjoy the
welcoming and warm environment provided by the Center. Its readiness to help
and receive is awesome and all attendees commented on how wonderful the center
and the services are.
Wonderful location, memorable and cultivating
experience! We met, we shared life
experiences, we learned and we rejoiced, all in one!
In one world, it is enriching and revitalizing …
