The Chemin Neuf Community:
Proclaiming the Good News of Jesus

Chemin Neuf's Cana retreats and programmes have helped married people all over the world to rediscover the joy of their relationship, and to learn to pray and worship together as a couple. Cana retreats also exist for divorced and separated people, for those engaged in a new union after a separation, and for those engaged to be married.

The Chemin Neuf Youth Mission helps teenagers and young adults to come to a mature faith in Jesus Christ, and to discern God's call for their lives. "Jericho" retreats and weekends are run during the year, and International Youth Festivals during the summer months. In August 2005 the Community will be leading a large international delegation to the World Youth Day at Cologne.

Chemin Neuf proposes retreats based on the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola. These last for seven or for thirty days. We also have various programmes of retreats for Inner Healing, which take place in France, England and other countries.

The Community has been entrusted with a number of Roman Catholic parishes: in France, Democratic Republic of Congo, Canada, Ivory Coast. We are enthusiastic supporters of the Alpha Course, devised by the Anglican parish of Holy Trinity Brompton. We also sing daily offices in the cathedrals of Lyon and Chartres.

Our spiritual and theological study programmes include the Cycle A (three months residential) and Cycle C (six months residential), and Emmaus (two years part-time). We also run university-level courses at the Dombes Theology Institute and the Chartres Studium, in partnership with the Centre SÂ?vres in Paris, the Catholic University of Lyon and the Protestant Theology Faculty of Strasbourg.

Chemin Neuf puts on regular gospel concerts with the International Ecumenical Choir, and produces its own CDs and films through its own audiovisual studio A.M.E. We are also in the process of setting up a School for Evangelisation through the Arts in the precincts of Chartres Cathedral.