The Chemin Neuf Community is a Roman Catholic Community with an ecumenical vocation, grown out of a prayer group in 1973 in Lyon, France. The Community now has over 1.100 members in 24 countries. Today the community has mission in more than 40 different countries, so is considered as completely international.

Married couples, families, celibate brothers and sisters, priests, single men and women have chosen a community life, following Christ, poor and humble, in order to serve the Church, the Gospel and the World. Most of the brothers and sisters of the Community have a job. Others are full time serving the Church.

« Brother or Sister, if you commit yourself with us, it is only because of Christ and the Gospel (...) So, the solidity of the Community rests on each one personal relation with Jesus. » Extract from the Constitutions

Any genuine Christian spirituality is rooted at hte foot of the Jésus Christ’s Cross. The Chemin Neuf Community’s Cross finds its place at the heart of a crossraods, a meeting point between the Charismatic Renewal with its praise, its youth and the already long way of the Ignatius tradition. It also stands at an historical crossroads: our community is born at the moment when the Europe was being built and the moment when the determined way towards the unity of Christians begun: oecumenism.

We are passionate by unity: unity of the human being and of the Church. Unity between men and women, between the couples, the families and the consecrated celibates; unity between the peoples, sharing between the rich and the poor… Everywhere where unity is still to win or more exactly to be received from Christ!

"The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to take the Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, and to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour." Luke 4, 18-19

The community has « no aim in itself; the joy we share to be brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ has no equivalent but our desire to bring the Good News of Resurrection to men. » Extract from the Constitutions.

Since it was founded, the community has the mission to train Christians in order to support them in the Church and in society.These last years, several bishops entrusted the Chemin Neuf Community with the responsibility of parishes. The concrete and direct service of the local church is since its fondation, a main line of the apostolical activity of the Community.

Ecclesial and civil recognition

Recognized in 1973 by Cardinal Renard, the Community was established as a Public Association of Christ’s Faithful by Cardinal Decourtray, Archbishop of Lyon, in 1984. This canonical statute of Public Association allows the Community to impart Christian teaching in the name of the Church and to promote public worship (canon 301:1).

 June 24, 1992, the Archbishop of Lyon established within the Chemin Neuf Community a clerical Religious Institute of Diocesan Right (the Chemin Neuf Institute) which comprises the Roman Catholic priests of the Community and young men formation towards the priesthood.

 The Chemin Neuf Community was recognized as a Religious Congregation by decree of the French Prime Minister on July 23, 1993.

 The Chemin Neuf Community in Nazareth

 In 2005, a partnership is agreed in between the Association Marie de Nazareth and the Community of the Chemin Neuf aiming to create a Centre called Centre Marie of Nazareth in Nazareth, with the support and the leadership of His Grace Marcuzzo. (Catholic Patriarcal Vicariate of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem).  

 
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