The welcome in Ecce Homo Convent is the fruit of a collaboration between the Congregation Sisters of Notre Dame de Sion and the Community of Chemin Neuf.
 

The Congregation of Sisters of Notre Dame de Sion invited the Chemin Neuf Community to collaborate with them in the animation, management and responsibility for two institutions in Israel: Notre Dame de Sion in Ein Karem in 2001 and Ecce Convent in Jerusalem in 2006.  Chemin Neuf accepted these invitations.

After several years of collaboration, the communities see in this experience a call from God, and confirm their desire to continue what has begun.  They recognize that such collaboration is a sign of the times. It is a call from the Holy Spirit, particularly in Israel where the struggle for unity and reconciliation is more urgent than ever.

The vocation of the Congregation of Sisters of Notre Dame de Sion is to witness to God’s faithful love for the Jewish People and to pray and work for the accomplishment of God’s promises for all humanity. It is marked by the centrality of the Word of God and by all that touches reconciliation.

The vocation of the Community of Chemin Neuf is to pray and work ‘so that all may be one’’:  unity of the person, unity of couples and families, unity among Churches and people.

More and more we discover that these vocations are complementary, for as Christians, what unites us is our faith in Jesus Christ and our rottenness in the Chosen People.

The experience of these last seven years is an invitation to continue the journey together, fully aware of the jobs and sorrow, the blessing and the challenges that are and will be part of it.  Our journey together is and will be a Paschal journey!

We hope to continue this commitment to collaboration, in respect for and love of the charism of the other.  We believe that unity in diversity is possible, and that the lord will give us his Spirit to pursue this adventure in following him.

This agreement was signed up by the General Superior of the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion, Sister Maureen Cusick and the founder and responsible of the Chemin Neuf Community , Father Laurent Fabre by the feast of the visitation on May 31st 2008 in Ecce Homo Convent.